![]() ![]() He tried to make her over with Joan Crawford lips and a name change to Kit Marlowe, but Novak would have none of that, keeping her looks and her last name (her birth name was Marilyn Novak ). Columbia studio head Harry Cohn was looking for a new sex-symbol to replace Columbia’s shining star, 1940's love goddess Rita Hayworth, and to have their own box-office answer to Marilyn Monroe and thought Novak could be it. A screen-test for Columbia Pictures quickly followed and she was given a contract. The two visited the set of the 1953 Jane Russell film “The French Line”, where they happened to be hiring models, and Novak was given a walk-on. In junior college, she began modeling, and while modeling in San Francisco on a cross-country promotional tour for a Deepfreeze home freezer, she accompanied another model on a visit to Hollywood. Wanting to be a fine artist (a painter), she won two scholarships to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. But that’s only part of the story.īorn in Chicago to parents of Czech decent, Kim Novak had a bit of a challenging childhood, as her father was plagued with undiagnosed mental illness. “Scottie” follows and falls in love with “Madeleine”, becomes obsessed with her, and we eventually find ourselves watching an innocent person unwittingly caught up in murder. Two other characters are also vital: “Midge”, “Scottie’s” college sweetheart who is still in love with him and “Judy”, a red-headed shopgirl. ![]() The beautiful “Madeleine” has blackout spells, wanders around the city, takes long drives, and seems to be possessed by a dead woman in a painting who tells her she must die. Former school chum, shipbuilder “Gavin Elster”, urges “Scottie” to come out of retirement to shadow his wife “Madeleine”, fearing she’s in danger. “Scottie” has paralyzing acrophobia (fear of heights) which gives him vertigo (makes him dizzy), and prompted him to quit the police force when it caused dire consequences. To give only plot basics, I’ll offer a rundown of the film’s main characters, beginning with protagonist “John ‘Scottie’ Ferguson”. Shrouded in the unexpected, the less said about “Vertigo’s” story the better.
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