“George Cukor liked to say of certainactresses, “She has a secret,” meaning there is more than meets
“George Cukor liked to say of certainactresses, “She has a secret,” meaning there is more than meets the eye, a vitalway in which she eludes our analysis. Kim Novak has that sort of secret. Shenever seems quite at ease with the world about her; she lives somewhere else,almost defying us to uncover her secret. There are some stars who have thisconstant subtext to their screen lives … Kim Novak “works” fully on screen onlywhen she is required to be desperately insecure, to look out of her smallcorner like a wary child. This appears to be the connecting link in all herbest screen performances. (Let us not argue about whether she can, in anytraditional sense, act – she works on screen, and that is the most important thing).” / From the essay “Kim Novak: Haunted Beauty”by John Russell Taylor included in the compilation Close-Ups: The Movie StarBook (1978) / Happy 88th birthday to glorious atomic-erascreen goddess Kim Novak, Hollywood’s ethereal and fragile “lavender blonde” ofthe fifties and sixties (born 13 February 1933). -- source link
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