This is a person who rolled with the punches with class yet genuinely. Life did not make her bitter. She has aged so graciously yet remained beautiful inside and out. Bravo Kim
This is one interview that will stand the test of time. Kim Novak, wow what and incredible, transparent, soul. She gave us her all, as an actress, and just being herself. She is the real deal. Love and respect, one of the best interviews I've ever see.
Kim Novak is amazing... btw no one leaves hollywood -- it does not center around Los Angeles only as they claim. It's innate and part of the person once they join the network -- "the business"
This whole show was just such class, Osborne is an impeccable interviewer, and Kim Novak was a fabulous interview. What’s happened to us today, we just don’t behave the same way anymore.
I think it has to do having and showing tact, timing and sticking to topics of interest or potential interest and not staying in any one part of a topic for too long as the interviewer and letting the interviewee float in the answers a little.
This is phenomenal! For a guest (Kim Novak) to break down and express the fact that she felt as if she had failed in her final film. I've never seen such a natural response from the person being interviewed. Kudos! ❤️❤️
She said Hollywood was not for her, she was different breed, humble just wanted to do good work. They kept her busy really busy and then she left and may have had a little doubt but was looking for a more satisfying life. A class act. By the Wy what she said about Jimmy Steward who was a Christian was a general consensus; he was one of the good ones.
@@lamarravery4094 ~ I haven't seen a great deal of her and have never seen Picnic. Just looked it up~ Nominated for 6 Academy Awards, won 2. Impressive. Thanks for that, I'm going to watch it tonight.
Kim Novak lived just a couple blocks from my home in Chicago. I remember her house because the walkway from her front door had a half circle where it met the sidewalk and we would trace it with our steps whenever we walked by. One day while walking by we saw her come out the front door and the media was there taking pictures. I was about 5 years old but I remember how beautiful she looked and how excited my older sister and I were to see her. She was smiling and seemed so nice, I’ll never forget it.
In Barbara Edens biography she said when she first went to 'Hollywood' she moved into that same Studio Club housing & she met Kim ( she was moving out) Barbara said she was stunned at Kim's natural beauty, thought she was the most beautiful woman she has ever seen. And as we can see and hear in this interview beauty on the inside too. I love how generous she is to all her co stars, Not all of them have been as kind to her.
I thoroughly enjoyed this interview. Kim Novak still has the looks and class. God bless this beautiful person.Hollywood will never see the likes of Kim Novak.NEVER!!
Vertigo and Once Upon a Time in the West, my two very favorites. Both have female leads that did not fit into the classic "good girl" role, both had male leads that went against type. And, both dealt with obsessions, one sexual, the other greed.
cindy pattana, Yes, I watch it maybe twice a year-one of the best films ever made. They certainly don’t make them like that anymore. I can easily recall quotes from certain scenes.
What a lovely, heartfelt interview. Kudos to Robert Osborne for making Ms. Novak comfortable enough to really open up and let her emotions flow. Kudos to Ms. Novak, for having the guts to allow her emotions to come forth. A lovely interview.
I happened on to this interview and was so drawn into the life and emotions of this wonderfully vulnerable and talented woman. I both smiled and cried appropriately throughout her lovely saga and feel so inspired by her sensitivity and authenticity. Robert Osborn is so natural and nurturing of Miss Novak that I felt as if they were sitting in my Living Room the audience included.This was a lovely respite during a stressful Covid season.
I fell in love with her in Picnic, Bell book and candle too. Siamese cats, I've had one my entire life since 1956. She is deep, has Soul, loves animals, they teach use how to live and what LOVE is. God speed to her.
I believe this interview was done in 2013 she would have been 80 at the time. She looked AMAZING and was in full control of her faculties!! Adorable and intelligent all these years later still has that magic about her. Delightful interview. Her innocence came through on film and she was right up there with Marilyn Monroe but seemed to have a wider scope. When she got to the part explaining her inner soul and how she pours it out in her artwork it reduced me to tears. I totally get it. My heart aches for her carrying such heartbreak regarding unresolved issues with her director. In life, we all experience that and whether it defines us or the direction we decide to take because of it... is part of our personal journey and makes us the person we are. Kim you are so loved by millions but I understand the pain of wanting the one person that meant the world to you, not be able to tell you they loved you. You will hear the words one day in heaven.
Are yu kidding, she was80? I know she had a face lift or 2 , yu can see it on the sides of her mouth, but not so bad. Obviously still had good hair. Amazing!!!!!
Why shouldn't she be in control of her faculties? Just because she's 80?? People need to stop expecting for someone to be a certain way just because of their age! You can be just at 80 as you were at 20. Or even more so. We need to stop expecting an older person to be a certain way.
I love Robert Osborne's interviews. He knew how to ask the right questions and bring out the best in his subjects. I remember Kim Novak. It's good to see her back. The years have treated her well.
Robert asked a question then allowed the person to answer. Most interviewers compete with their subject so nothing much gets accomplished. Robert was wonderful and is greatly missed.
@@carolynkingsley4421 Stay away from Peter Robinson. The biggest egoist narrator ever! Pseudo intellectual who badly believes listeners are interested in HIS views instead of the person he is interviewing. Use to narrate Victor David Hanson - a breath of fresh air conservative. Thnk he narrates the black salt of the sane - Sowell also. If you trip across Robinson, write a scathing review! Maybe they will get rid of him!!
A wonderful conversation that filled in a lot of gaps...like why she left movies when she did. Her great recall of a marvelous era in movie making, and her honest assessment of who she was and how it all happened revealed the fine person she is....that is, sensational in every way. Thank you both for chatting like old friends.
Kim is so right It’s almost a curse to have some kind of beauty and figure that men are attracted to when you are looking for real love, when you weren’t loved as a child It really is hard to live like that when others see you as “beautiful” but you don’t see that in yourself God bless you Kim Novak for surviving horrible Hollywood and coming out the other side
I am just a few years younger than Kim Novak and grew up 120 miles north of Chicago. I was average-looking, but I loved reading and language and I had an advanced vocabulary and a good memory. Adult women, including my mother, told me not to be so smart, especially never let a man think you're smarter than he is. In essence, sit there, smile and be silent. I didn't try to use "big words," they just automatically were the words from the books I read. My two sisters and I were all insecure and scarred and never realized our worth or potential until much later in life. To realize how women have been so undervalued for centuries makes me so sad and in so much of the world, girls are still not allowed to be educated and are forced into marriage.
@@kathleenmckenzie6261, I was born 3,945 miles east of Chicago and am a few years older than Kim Novak. I have always wished for a life partner with intelligence, curiosity and willingness to say exactly what she thinks - but never found one.
@@grahamlyons8522 Life is interesting. In early retirement, I lived in a community with Robert & Seon Manley. He was an engineer who grew up in my same area while Seon was an author and book editor working for Doubleday, I think it was. She worked with Jackie Kennedy Onassis for a time. Anyway, Robert frequently said, with pride, "I married the smartest woman in the world." I was shocked. I began meeting highly educated people -- men and women -- and began realizing there was another world I'd never thought existed. I wondered what my life would have been had I been exposed to such an environment at a much earlier age, but then again, maybe I would not have been ready to learn at that level.
Kim Novak handled being a Hollywood Star so much better than poor Marilyn Monroe. She got out of it to have a good normal life. She looks very sane and intelligent and positive about her life.
Both Kim and Marilyn came from families with mental illness and they both developed mental illness. I have worked with children who are placed in the mental hospitals. The key thing that determines how they will recover seems to be the condition of their safety net. Kim came from an intact family, even though her father had mental illness, he remained married to her mother. Kim had a safety net or a place to come home to. Marilyn’s safety net was shredded pretty much from the time she arrived. When children’s safety net is shredded, they fall through. The safety net is composed of the caring, trusted adults who are there for the child, (parents if possible). If the parents are absent, on drugs, have mental illness and another stable family member like a grandmother/grandparent, aunt/uncle cannot become their safety net, it shreds, and the children fall through and many end up in the mental hospital. Marilyn’s father was not to be found, so his side of her family could not help with raising her. Marilyn’s mother was often absent because she was in and out of mental hospitals or trying to get back on her feet financially so she could raise Marilyn. According to reports, Marilyn’s mother ran a boarding house for a short while, and Marilyn was not properly protected from the customers. Marilyn was in and out of orphanages and in the care of others. Therefore, she never had the chance to develop her core personality. The core personality tells a person who they are and how they feel and provides them with strategies for surviving in this world. Also, having a community of caring such as a Church, Civic group, support group or other group of people who cares about the child and her family helps greatly. Having a healthy spiritual belief system also helps. Children without a safety net may not have the mentoring that assists them with developing a healthy spiritual belief system. People who do not develop this core personality center often make great actors because without a core personality to get in the way, they can become most any character. But, after the film, they feel empty inside with no core personality to come back in and guide them. This was a strategic difference. Kim had a safety net and had developed enough of a core personality; she could walk away when she realized that this set-up in Hollywood was not what was best for her mental health and stability. Marilyn, without that core center, was lost. In addition, the treatments for her mental condition were even more inadequate than they are today. I apologize for the length, but when you watch documentaries about Marilyn, you will see this glaring difference.
@@anneteller3128 Good analysis, Anne Teller! A girl needs a father who cares, or at least stays around to help somewhat with family. Very important for self esteem. You are likely correct that it's the difference that helped Kim survive better than Marilyn--an intact family. I only care about these stars as human beings with feelings who help us understand our own psychological difficulties and survivals. I'm not a movie star fan, except that they are human beings whose stories have psychological resonance, and I do care for all human survival and learning how not to suffer emotional pain. I also can admire good acting ability, but movie stars are overly worshiped in the USA, too often over scientists who cure diseases, or doctors, nurses, environmentalists and activists for social justice who save lives and help create a better world. However, there are activist actors like Leonardo DiCaprio who use their celebrity for the good of all, as he does with his foundation, to help save us from climate crisis. Kim Novak does advocate for mental health support organizations and that's good. She has survived her mental illness quite well and sincerely, it seems. I'd probably never have had time to watch this interview, if it weren't for the pandemic. Thanks for your explanation. It makes sense.
@@danielagioseffi579 Thank you for your kind reply. I think movie stars are our "royal family" in a way because they were made to look so glamorous. They look so beautiful in their gowns and jewels, they must be a princess or a prince. They certainly look like a prince or princess should look. Also, we could see them more than a particular nurse or doctor because they were captured on film that could be watched more than once. They were interviewed constantly on TV talk shows. So, we came to think of them as very important people who we should listen to. Then, we found out that most didn't graduate even high school and had many emotional and mental issues which actually helped them be better actors, but didn't help them remain sane in the topsy turvy world of Hollywood. I think the Internet and You Tube and other social media platforms has leveled that playing field as even doctors and nurses now have their own You Tube channels and group of fans. Now, if we as a society can just ensure that our freedom of speech and expression isn't purchased by large corporations, and Community Guidelines don't turn into a mass censorship program where only the truth of a small group of international elites can be talked about without punishment of some sort, I believe we can continue to progress as a society. We must be ever vigilant to protect our civil liberties, because of reasons I don't fully understand, there's always a small group who wants to take them away. I didn't mean for that to turn into a speech, but like many, I'm a bit sensitive to the subject of liberties these days. It's funny, I wasn't going to even watch this video, but a friend of my brother was so in love with Kim Novak when we were in high school, he talked about her all the time even though she was quite a bit older. I dreamed last night that I saw my brother's friend and we were young like in high school, and I excitedly told him that he must watch this video because Kim Novak was giving us an update about her life.
@@anneteller3128 Billionaires like Betsos, half moral, and Zuckerberg, rather immoral, have become many billions richer during this pandemic, while the working classes have become poorer and lost jobs and the very poor are dying and starving. Just now I heard on www.DemocracyNow.org recent program, that the local media is being taken over by a right wingers connected to white supremacist news mogul Robert Mercer of Breitbart who hired Steve Bannon. A right wing, white supremacist film maker friend of Bannon and Trump has been appointed to run a government media over site division. I have to look up the name of the division again, but this is recent news that can be researched. This rite wing media force will suppress science and the voices of doctors and nurses and first responders, as well as progressive thinkers. I fear that the far right wants black and brown people and the poor to succumb to the pandemic. Senate Majority Leader McConnell is refusing to shore up unemployment legislative help for working people that the Democrats have put forward. The far right is getting ready to suppress truth and democracy and voting more than ever in our history as a country. I fear fascistic govt. on the rise. Check it out on www.DemocracyNow.org with Amy Goodman, truth reporter. These a difficult time psychologically and sociologically. Could Trump's deliberate pandemic policies be a global death camp for poor and black and brown peoples of the Earth? Check out how the billionaire class has become billions richer during the pandemic, while the working classes and poor suffer harder and harder times toward a massive depression that will kill many. I have written several award wining books with major presses, especially on social justice and the dynamics of prejudice.
@@danielagioseffi579 I know. At the very top it seems to be a group psychopathic billionaires against the rest of us. They have definitely targeted groups and certain cities and countries. If it was because NY was so crowded, then Tokyo, Japan the most populated dense city in the world close to China would have gotten large case numbers and deaths, and they didn't .
At 17yr old I saw Vertigo. I thought I was watching a goddess come to earth. I dreamed of Kim for years. Certainly my heart and mind looked at the person playing the movie role, not the role itself. Her sincerity, positive decent objectives, and projecting a true understanding of what love truly is have always been Kim Novak. This interview makes me happy to see her so happy. Kim is still more beautiful than any other woman. Beauty from within nurtures outward beauty.
Well said. She knew it was the right time for her to leave & forge a new path. Ava Gardner felt as she did but stayed for the paycheck despite she loathed show business & said it's a job that pays the bills. Bette Davis was the same but also craved the fame.
The place she went to when saying her father only said he loved her when he was dying, was just heartbreaking. You could see it in her gaze...it so moved me.
Man, what an interview. I always got the feeling when watching her films that she was pretty complex. Think that's why I liked them. But she could have ended up a real tragedy. Thanks TCM.
Humble, honest, integrity and beautiful not only in appearance but as a person. There are very few actors like that and only a small percentage of people in the rest of the world.
What an incredibly inspirational interview done by Robert Osborne who had the sensitivity to let Kim Novak be herself. It is never too late to start again. Kim get that award. You deserve it..
WoW beautiful and strong ! Wise and humble! So glad Kim knows where she will be on the next stage! Wise decision to get out of Hollywood! Well done ✨✨💜
Wow, Kim Novak's crying while expressing her art made me so emotional. She might have not been in many motion pictures, but no other living actress can claim the ultimate honor of playing the lead in the movie widely regarded as the greatest movie of all time! Vertigo is my all time favourite movie, with her sublime acting Kim Novak totally transformed Vertigo into what it is - a masterpiece & she will always be a legend.
Always a favorite actress and person. Went to all of her films. Wish my husband could have seen this interview; he loved her too. She’s a spectacular artist as well. She made smart choices for her life. Wish her every happiness.
I always loved Kim Novak. When I left school with the necessary qualifications I found that to be a vet I had to move countries across the sea. At 17 I was not mature enough to do that. I changed tact reluctantly but to this day even in old age I adore animals. Had every pet imaginable but now down to just feeding the wild birds in my garden. That is my joy. Kim is a special , wonderful person with no ego. I still love her. She still looks so beautiful.
I agree great interview! She's truly an icon & we're fortunate to enjoy her time as she lived it in the Golden Era of Hollywood. Every movie star that worked with Jimmy Stewart said he was a gem.
Just watched this interview and I have tears in my eyes two lovely people having a great chat wath a lovely man Robert is I have never seen him before and it's sad he has passed a real gentleman and Kim wonderful actor will have to watch all her films again and she spoke about her painting my late wonderful Mum love painting also and was very good at it thanks for this lovely time with two nice people Marie Dublin Ireland
Vertigo was my first Hitchcock movie I was admiring as a young filmmaker in the 1990s. Ms. Novak was so gorgious as Madeleine, and huge part of my fascination for this movie was because I fell in love with her character. After watching this interview I feel now it was Kim Novak not Madeleine who touched me back in the day because she put so much personallity in the role. The same personality that touched me today. What a kind and nice person she is... Unfortunately, handsome individuals don't rule our societies.
What a heartful person Kim Novak is. I played her role of Bell, Book & Candle in community theatre in Ottawa, Illinois getting to step into her essence briefly. She is magical!
What a fabulous woman Kim Novak is so real so raw, I love what she said about self expression and how that helps with your mental health. Robert Osborne is such a fabulous interviewer he allows the guests to complete their thoughts without interupting. Great lady ❤️ rest in peace Robert you are sorely sorely missed!
You are kidding? No nomination? And some of the people who are any more this is such a shock. I did not know this I just assumed. Wow. Shame on you Oscar you jerk.
I STILL miss him! Robert Osborne is a VERY SPECIAL person!!! That incredibly humble human has a bright, spirit that shines through ALL, the cameras, the people, all. That's another reason his interviews are absolutely glowing.
I love Kim. I’m quite sure, there will never have a personal woman of unique caracter like her. She made a choice and still carries firmed. God Bless Her.❤️
She was always my favorite actress. She could be so real and yet so beautiful. Beyond your dreams and yet vulnerable. In Vertigo she was mesmerizing. The whole movie seemed like a dream.
Osborne retired in 2016 so this had to have been filmed around 2013 or 2014. They both looked and sounded fabulous!!! And Osborne is the consummate interviewer. Open, accessible and a great listener!!
I have a friend who knows a lot about acting and acting and he said that Kim Novak was a natural actor. She underplayed many of her roles and it 'clicked'.
Ms. Novak, I saw you in "Jeanne Eagles" & thought you deserved an Academy Award! I don't know your Film history awards so I don't know if you ever got one but I hope so.
Kim Novak broke my heart. Not many people have ever effected me as much as she. I think she is an amazing women who finally found the ability to accept herself as being real and true to herself. I adore women that share the many parts of their life with great truth. I am one of those women.
I saw Bell, Book and Candle when I had just become a teenager and was now getting into movies and all I remember is how much I enjoyed it, I was enchanted. I also saw Picnic a few years later and it was great. So much of herself showed thru in the parts she played.
@@withgoddess1119 She ask for surgery so it's her responsibility except some plastic surgeons are just greedy money hungry vermin who will go ahead with surgery even tho they know full well the patient are in need of psychiatric treatment
What a wonderful person she is, and a fabulous actress. It is a total injustice that she didn't get an Oscar for her performance in Vertigo. She made the film. James Stewart couldn't have done a thing to save the film if the female lead was unconvincing. The entire story revolves around her and the whole film would've failed completely if the wrong actress was cast. It's so ironic to me that Hitchcock never was pleased with her casting, since she wasn't his first choice, because she is absolutely phenomenal as Madeleine/Judy. She had to play two completely different characters, win us over both times, make us believe everything she's saying, fool us into thinking she's a different person 2/3 of the way into the film, fall under her spell, and stay under her spell throughout, and in the final scene, she has to basically blend the two roles together to try to get through to Stewart's character. In the last act of the film, she basically becomes the protagonist and must get us on her side and fear for her at the end, almost more so than Stewart, despite her character's actions. And she does it all masterfully without missing one beat. A performance for the ages.
Thanx to Robert Osborne for ellicting Kim Novak from one of the best interviews ever! Kim Novak truly gives us a window into her soul. Her courage, love, honesty and humanity shines through brighter than a Klieg light. Not even a hint of resting on her laurels which she very well could do. Kudos, Kim Novak for, although short, a career that's iconic and relevant all these years later. You are a true legend.
The legendary Kim Novak is incontrovertibly one of the most beautiful starlets to have appeared on the big screen. And she is not afraid to grow old gracefully.
Kim Novak is such a lovely, sensitive, intelligent and reflective woman. Such a pleasure to see this interview. I would love to see an exhibit of her art! The few piece that were shown are breathtaking.
Whatever its shortcomings, I loved watching the Legend of Lylah Clare, and gobbled it up each time it was on tv, a real campfest. The number of disasters in Novak's life is awful. I think she's a marvelous artist.
I used to watch the old movies back to back to back when I was a kid. I think it's why I am a true romantic! I also suffer from depression and mental disorders
Loved this interview - shows her self as her true self. She spoke her truth - that is beautiful! Shows how important parent's love is in children's lives - at any age. Also shows some trauma she may have endured during her early years...incredible!
My favorite Kim Novak movie is "Bell, Book & Candle". I light hearted, funny, love story. So glad to hear her story in this interview. And Robert Osborne is an exquisite interviewer.
Kim Novak. What words can I even say? Stunning, sincere, talented, and you can tell she was always her own person because her attitude did not change in any movie she was in. Now that is an actor. I put Jimmy Stewart in that same category. Top of the line...both of them. I love you Kim Novak and thank you for blessing us with your talent and those movies. I am glad you are more comfortable now but the world would not be the same without getting to know you...the person you are. Thanks for the interview.
