Kim Novak was a Columbia contract star and thru a series of films such as Pushover, The Eddy Duchin Story, Jeane Eagles and her big hits Picnic, The Man With The Golden Arm,* Pal Joey, Vertigo*, Middle Of the Night, Strangers When We Meet become the biggest star at Columbia.
Kim was the subject of the TCM Summer Under The Stars 2021 with some of her classics Vertigo, Picnic, Bell Book And Candle, Middle Of The Night and the Man with the Golden Arm as well as Billy Wilder's Kiss Me Stupid. Two Films that should have been omitted was a slight comedy from WB The Great Bank Robbery, and the truly mixed up Legend of Lyle Clare. I would have substituted The Amororous Adventures of Moll Flanders and The Mirror Crack'd with Kim trying bros with Liz Taylor with Rock Hudson , Angela Lansbury co starring.
Blake Edwards fashioned a wonderful screenplay sort of a comedy mystery set in London but filmed at Columbia in Hollywood. Jack Lemmon was a star of Phftt a fun comedy with the great Judy Holiday with Novak in a supporting role. Bell Book And Candle saw Novak with her fave leading man James Stewart with Lemmon billed after Novak, in this film her sign off at Columbia Novak is first billed over Lemmon and the great Fred. Astaire. Richard Quine loved Novak and I feel he is most responsible for the "Kim Novak" look so popular in the late 50's and early 60's with her films Bell Book And Candle, Strangers When We Meet and this delightful movie. Kim Novak was what a movie star should look like. Kim's clout was so great she designed her own wardrobe for this film and also for MGM's Boys Night Out. Both films were released in the summer of 62 giving audiences a chance to see this lovely star in 2 big movies.
Kim was rarely more beautiful than she appears in Notorious Landlady.
See this movie for a fun relaxing time and admire the work of film masters Edwards, Quine, Lemmon, Astaire (all now gone to Heaven) and Kim Novak.
In her great career Novak worked with Billy Wilder Alfred Hitcock, Otto Preminger, , Richard Quine, Mark Robson, Terence Young, Delbert Mann all of whom loved her. Co star in a her great career with Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Lemmon, Rita Hayworth, James Stewart. Judy Holiday, Ben Kingsley, Roz Russell, Frank Sinatra, Jane Wyman, Dean Martin, Rock Hudson, Angel Lansbury, Eleanor Parker, Fred. Astaire, Frederic March, Fred McMurray, Ty Power, James Garner, and Richard Johnson whom she would wed. Her co starring with William Holden in Picnic was electric and made Kim Novak a worldwide superstar. One star I wished Novak co starred with was Cary Grant. The combo of Novak and Grant would have been a rocking box office success. Kim however worked at Columbiand Grant at Universal.
*Preminger loved working with Kim..He had a habit of treating some players brutally for example Tom Tryon in both "The Cardinal" and "In Harms Way" but Superstars like John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, and Ms. Novak he was very very kind.
