Kim Novak a big star in the 1950's and 1960's was subject of a great interview by TCM's Robert Osborne. Scenes of some of Ms. Novak's famous films such as Vertigo, The Man With The Golden Arm, Picnic, etc were shown with Ms. Novak giving commentary. Filmed in 2013 Ms. Novak looked wonderful at age 79 discussing her working with Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Josh Logan, Alfred Hitchcock and Otto Preminger among others.
A comment that struck me was Kim Novak signaling out Lee Remick as a star she admired and wished to emulate on choosing roles! Remick shot to fame in A Face In The Crowd and in Preminger's Anatomy Of A Murder replacing Lana Turner, and most notoriously replacing Marilyn Monroe in the ill fated Something's Got To Give which MM was re signed.To my knowledge Lee Remick's best role was Days Of Wine And Roses which Novak refused ( Remick also replaced Novak in A Severed Head, a flop). What did Novak mean by using Ms Remick- a lesser star than Ms. Novak- as an example.
Ms. Novak long retired did comment on her bitter relationship with Director Mike Figgies on Liebestraum which ended her great career.
I wish Interviewers would ask Novak about working with the biggest star of her era Elizabeth Taylor in The Mirror Crack'd and her leading men such as Rock Hudson, Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Charles Bronson and great actors such as Frederic March, Kirk Douglas, and Peter Finch. Also were there stars Kim Novak wished she worked with for example Cary Grant in a romantic film seemed natural or a drama with Steve McQueen?
l liked the Osborne-Novak interview on TCM.
