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👉 Today KIM NOVAK turns 88!

📌 To pay homage to one of the lasts HOLLYWOOD legends we will explore her filmography and collaboration with legendary director ALFRED HITCHCOCK. (Thread of 5 tweets)

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👉 KIM NOVAK is an american actress who became one of the most popular movie stars in the late 1950's.

📌 She starred in films like 'Picnic' (1955), 'The Man with the Golden Arm' (1955) along FRANK SINATRA or 'Bell Book and Candle' (1958) starring JAMES STEWART and JACK LEMMON.
👉 In 1958 she starred in ALFRED HITCHCOCK's materpiece 'VERTIGO'.

📌 The movie was centered on a police detective (JAMES STEWART) who gets obssessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman (KIM NOVAK).
👉 'VERTIGO' became a big success being considered nowadays one of the best ALFRED HITCHCOCK's movies.

📌 Since there, NOVAK became a movie legend starring in more and more films such as 'Middle of the Night' (1959), 'Strangers When We Meet' (1960) or 'Kiss Me, Stupid' (1964).
👉 In 1985, five years after ALFRED HITCHCOCK's dead, she co-starred in the segment 'Man From the South' from the pilot episode of the remake of 'ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS' (1985-1989).
👉 In 2013, due to HITCHCOCK' rumours of sexual harassment she said:

"I never had a problem with him (...) I found him to be quite proper. I mean, his wife was usually there on set. When she wasn't, he didn't act any differently, but was just a decent man and a strong director."
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