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<blockquote data-quote="TaranofPrydain" data-source="post: 392384" data-attributes="member: 51150">I was born a long time after her 50s heyday, but I feel like I&#039;ve known the name for most of my life, because my mother was one of the first babies named after her. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> I feel that Kim Novak was a superb actress. Everyone acknowledges how good she is in Vertigo, but she&#039;s brilliant as well in Picnic, The Eddy Duchin Story, Pal Joey, Jeanne Eagels, Strangers When We Meet, Boys night Out, Kiss Me Stupid, Of Human Bondage, and the Mirror Crack&#039;d. She never gave a bad performance, and frankly her guest turn on Falcon Crest was that series last great hurrah, as she played it beautifully , especially in her scenes with John Saxon.She left films in 1991 because she was devastated with how director Mike Figgis cut out nearly all of her part as a dying woman from the 1991 erotic thriller Liebestraum, aside from her moaning and screaming in pain and one dialogue scene where she had to say one of the filthiest words in the English language . But even with only about 5 minutes of screentime in that film, she completely dominated the memories and the mood of the film, hypnotic as ever.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TaranofPrydain, post: 392384, member: 51150"] I was born a long time after her 50s heyday, but I feel like I've known the name for most of my life, because my mother was one of the first babies named after her. :) I feel that Kim Novak was a superb actress. Everyone acknowledges how good she is in Vertigo, but she's brilliant as well in Picnic, The Eddy Duchin Story, Pal Joey, Jeanne Eagels, Strangers When We Meet, Boys night Out, Kiss Me Stupid, Of Human Bondage, and the Mirror Crack'd. She never gave a bad performance, and frankly her guest turn on Falcon Crest was that series last great hurrah, as she played it beautifully , especially in her scenes with John Saxon. She left films in 1991 because she was devastated with how director Mike Figgis cut out nearly all of her part as a dying woman from the 1991 erotic thriller Liebestraum, aside from her moaning and screaming in pain and one dialogue scene where she had to say one of the filthiest words in the English language . But even with only about 5 minutes of screentime in that film, she completely dominated the memories and the mood of the film, hypnotic as ever. [/QUOTE]

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