10 Movies Starring Kim Novak

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Basic Info:

Released Date:

1954-11-10

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (939 Reviews)

Director:

Mark Robson

Cast:

Writer:

George Axelrod (story)

Fullplot:

After eight years of marriage, Robert and Nina divorce. He takes up with his womanising Navy buddy Charlie Nelson while she looks to her interfering mother for guidance. Both start dating other people, but although they try and ignore each other whenever they accidentally meet, it is obvious the past is not dead. Then one night they find themselves in a nightclub doing the mambo together.

The Man with the Golden Arm

The Man with the Golden Arm

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-01-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

119 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (6313 Reviews)

Director:

Otto Preminger

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Walter Newman (screenplay)

Lewis Meltzer (screenplay)

Nelson Algren (from the novel by)

Fullplot:

Frankie Machine is a skilled card dealer and one-time heroin addict. When he returns home from jail, he struggles to find a new livelihood and to avoid slipping back into addiction.

Picnic

Picnic

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-02-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (5966 Reviews)

Director:

Joshua Logan

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Daniel Taradash (screenplay)

William Inge (play)

Fullplot:

The morning of a small town Labor Day picnic, a drifter (Hal Carter) blows into town to visit an old fraternity buddy (Alan Benson) who also happens to be the son of the richest man in town. Hal is an egocentric braggart - all potential and no accomplishment. He meets up with Madge Owens, the town beauty queen and girlfriend of Alan Benson.

The Eddy Duchin Story

The Eddy Duchin Story

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-06-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

123 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

(1141 Reviews)

Director:

George Sidney

Cast:

Writer:

Samuel A. Taylor (screenplay)

Leo Katcher (story)

Fullplot:

In the late 20's, the talkative newly graduated in pharmacy and aspirant piano player Eddy Duchin comes from Boston to New York expecting to play with the orchestra of Leo Reisman at fancy New York's Central Park Casino. However he had misunderstood the invitation of the maestro and while leaving the place, he meets the wealthy socialite Marjorie Oelrichs that asks Leo Reisman to give a chance to Eddy. He plays in the intermission and becomes a successful piano showman. Two years later, Marjorie and Eddy get married and in the Christmas, Marjorie has a baby, Peter, but she dies after the delivery. Eddy rejects Peter blaming him for the death of Marjorie and only five years later he meets his son. With the World War II, Eddy Duchin breaks up his band and enlists to fight in the war. With the end of the war, Eddy returns to New York with the intention of getting closer to Peter but he sees the boy connected to his friend Chiquita. When Eddy discovers that he has a terminal disease, he proposes Chiquita and they get married.

Pal Joey

Pal Joey

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-10-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (3102 Reviews)

Director:

George Sidney

Cast:

Writer:

Dorothy Kingsley (screenplay)

John O'Hara (from the musical play book by)

Fullplot:

Joey Evans is charming, handsome, funny, talented, and a first class, A-number-one heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl ("She used to be 'Vera...with the Vanishing Veils'") and now rich widow Vera Simpson, the two lecherous souls seem made for each other. That is, until Linda English comes along. Linda is a "mouse on the line" and built like there's no tomorrow. But she's the typical good little girl from a good little home -- just the right ingredient to louse up Joey's cushy set up.

Bell Book and Candle

Bell Book and Candle

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-12-19

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (6556 Reviews)

Director:

Richard Quine

Cast:

Writer:

Daniel Taradash (screenplay)

John Van Druten (play)

Fullplot:

Gillian Holroyd is just your average, modern-day, witch, living in a New York apartment with her Siamese familiar, Pyewacket. But one day a handsome publisher, Shep Henderson walks into her building and Gillian decides she wants him--especially as it turns out he's marrying Merle Kittridge, an old poison penpal from Gillian's college days. So, Gillian casts a spell over Shep. But her powers are in danger of being exorcised by something stronger than the bell-book-and-candle routine: Love.

Vertigo

Vertigo

Basic Info:

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

128 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

8.4 (221443 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Alec Coppel (screenplay)

Samuel A. Taylor (screenplay)

Pierre Boileau (novel)

Thomas Narcejac (novel)

Fullplot:

Former Police detective John "Scottie" Ferguson was asked by a friend to investigate his wife named Madeleine since he was afraid that she might attempt to kill herself due to probable insanity as she thinks that she might be possessed by a dead woman. Scottie agrees and ended up falling in love with her. Unfortunately for him, Madeleine died and he was left alone until a woman named Judy came along and things start to unfold.

Middle of the Night

Middle of the Night

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-05-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (700 Reviews)

Director:

Delbert Mann

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Paddy Chayefsky (screenplay)

Paddy Chayefsky (based on his play)

Fullplot:

A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcèe Betty Preisser.

The Notorious Landlady

The Notorious Landlady

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1962-04-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

123 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (1149 Reviews)

Director:

Richard Quine

Cast:

Writer:

Larry Gelbart (screenplay)

Blake Edwards (screenplay)

Margery Sharp (story)

Fullplot:

When William Gridley arrives from the US in London, he rents part of Carly Hardwicke's house from her and promptly begins to fall in love. Gridley doesn't know that many people think she killed her husband but his boss, the American ambassador, knows and doesn't take this "lapse of judgement" lightly. Since Carly is also American, Gridley saves his job by introducing her to the ambassador, who is promptly smitten and promises to help her. So when a Scotland Yard detective arrives, wanting to get to the truth one way or another, they say they'll help him. And then the comedic complications really begin.

Tales That Witness Madness

Tales That Witness Madness

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1973-10-31

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (712 Reviews)

Director:

Freddie Francis

Genres:

Horror

Fullplot:

Dr Tremayne is an enigmatic Psychiatrist running a Futuristic asylum housing four very special cases. Visited by colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad... cue four distinct tales each with a different set of characters: 'Mr Tiger' tells of Paul, the sensitive and troubled young son of prosperous but constantly bickering and unlovely parents, and the boy's 'imaginary' friend, a tiger. 'Penny Farthing' tells of Timothy, an antique store owner propelled backwards in time by a penny-farthing bicycle in his shop, all the while being watched over by the constantly changing photograph of Uncle Albert, which endangers the lives of both Timothy and his beautiful wife, Ann. 'Mel' tells of Brian, a man who brings home an old dead tree and prominently displays it in his living room as a work of art. His fiery wife Bella soon becomes jealous of the tree, which the husband has lovingly named Mel, and it seems to be developing a will of its own. 'Luau' tells of Auriol, a flamboyant and ambitious literary agent who will do anything to impress her sinister new client, though he seems more interested in Auriol's beautiful and precocious young daughter Ginny. Ginny sneaks off on holiday while Auriol plans a sumptuous feast for her client.

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