Kim Novak
Biography: Marilyn Pauline Novak (born February 13, 1933), known professionally as Kim Novak, is an American retired film and television actress. She began her career in 1954 after signing with Columbia Pictures. There, she became a successful actress, starring in a string of movies, among them the critically acclaimed Picnic (1955). She later starred in such popular successes as The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Pal Joey (1957). However, she is perhaps best known today for her "dual role" as both Judy Barton and Madeleine Elster in Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Vertigo (1958). Novak was popular in box office popularity polls, and she starred opposite several top leading men of the era, including James Stewart, William Holden, Frank Sinatra, Tyrone Power, and Kirk Douglas. Although still young, her career declined in the early 1960s, and after several years in a series of lackluster films, she withdrew from acting in 1966. She has only sporadically returned since. She later returned to the screen in The Mirror Crack'd (1980), and had a regular role on the prime time series Falcon Crest (1986–87). After a disappointing experience during the filming of Liebestraum (1991), she has permanently retired from acting, stating she has no desire to return. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kim Novak, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Vertigo
1958-05-28
Vertigo
Overview: A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-28
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The Man with the Golden Arm
1955-12-26
The Man with the Golden Arm
Overview: When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-26
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Bell, Book and Candle
1958-12-25
Bell, Book and Candle
Overview: A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-25
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Son of Sinbad
1955-06-02
Son of Sinbad
Overview: Legendary pirate and adventurer Sinbad is in single-minded pursuit of two things: beautiful women and a substance called Greek Fire--an early version of gunpowder.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-02
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The Mirror Crack'd
1980-09-19
The Mirror Crack'd
Overview: Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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Pushover
1954-07-14
Pushover
Overview: A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-14
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Just a Gigolo
1978-11-16
Just a Gigolo
Overview: After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-11-16
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Pal Joey
1957-10-25
Pal Joey
Overview: An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-25
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MGM 40th Anniversary
1964-04-01
MGM 40th Anniversary
Overview: A brief overview of stellar MGM releases from its first 40 years.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-01
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Hollywood Legenden
2004-01-01
Hollywood Legenden
Overview: Documentary about Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Boys' Night Out
1962-06-21
Boys' Night Out
Overview: Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-21
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Tales That Witness Madness
1973-10-31
Tales That Witness Madness
Overview: Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad.
Genres: Horror Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-31
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Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten
2013-02-23
Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten
Overview: Documentary about Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-02-23
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Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen
2016-01-01
Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen
Overview: Documentary about Alfred Hitchcocks infatuation with blondes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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The Eddy Duchin Story
1956-05-02
The Eddy Duchin Story
Overview: The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-02
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Liebestraum
1991-09-13
Liebestraum
Overview: A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-13
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The Children
1990-05-18
The Children
Overview: Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-18
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5 Against the House
1955-06-10
5 Against the House
Overview: Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-10
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Hollywood and the Stars
1964-05-04
Hollywood and the Stars
Overview: NBC's pioneering documentary series, produced by the David L. Wolper Production Company, in association with United Artists Television. Each 30-minute show concentrated on a Hollywood genre, film or legendary star. This series ran from September 30, 1963 until May 18, 1964, and many of its individual episodes were released into the home gauge market in shortened form. Certain episodes would focus on films being made at the time, notably Preminger's The Cardinal and Huston's Night of the Iguana.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-04
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The White Buffalo
1977-05-01
The White Buffalo
Overview: In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns; freezing, slaughterhouse-like frontier towns and beautifully desolate high country - before improbably teaming up with a young Crazy Horse to pursue the creature.
Genres: Western Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-01
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Picnic
1955-11-18
Picnic
Overview: Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a former college classmate and son of the richest man in town.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-18
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The Notorious Landlady
1962-04-13
The Notorious Landlady
Overview: An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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Phffft
1954-11-10
Phffft
Overview: Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-10
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983-02-25
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Overview: Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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Kiss Me, Stupid
1964-12-22
Kiss Me, Stupid
Overview: While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-22
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Pepe
1960-12-21
Pepe
Overview: Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-21
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Strangers When We Meet
1960-06-29
Strangers When We Meet
Overview: A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-29
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
1968-08-21
The Legend of Lylah Clare
Overview: A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-21
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Satan's Triangle
1975-01-14
Satan's Triangle
Overview: The female survivor of a shipwreck and two Coast Guard helicopter pilots sent to rescue her find themselves trapped in a mysterious part of the ocean known as Satan's Triangle.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-14
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The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965-05-26
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Overview: A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-26
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Of Human Bondage
1964-09-23
Of Human Bondage
Overview: Medical student Philip falls in love with Mildred, a waitress. Although she is a flirt, they have a love affair. But when Philip is told about her constant infidelity, they break up. Mildred quits her job and becomes a prostitute. But Philip is still in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-23
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Middle of the Night
1959-05-20
Middle of the Night
Overview: Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old receptionist Betty. The relationship is dismissed by his daughter, Lillian, discouraged by his sister, Evelyn, and denounced by Betty's mother. But when Jerry begins to mention marriage, even Betty is forced to confront her ambivalence.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-20
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Jeanne Eagels
1957-08-02
Jeanne Eagels
Overview: Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-02
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The Great Bank Robbery
1969-06-24
The Great Bank Robbery
Overview: A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-24
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Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
2023-03-05
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
Overview: Kim Novak never dreamed on being a star, but she became one. Most famous for her enigmatic performance in Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958), the Chicago-born actress never quite fitted into the Hollywood mould and wanted to do things her own way.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-05
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The Third Girl from the Left
1973-10-16
The Third Girl from the Left
Overview: A chorus girl comes to the realization that she is not getting any younger and that her longtime relationship with a nightclub singer is going nowhere. She finds herself attracted to an unassuming but attentive--and much younger--delivery boy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-16
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Notre Dame de la Croisette
1983-02-23
Notre Dame de la Croisette
Overview: A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-23
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Rat Pack
2022-01-11
Rat Pack
Overview: In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford together form the "rat pack": they sing the most popular hits of the moment, star in the most profitable Hollywood films and are already making a splash on television . This documentary, produced by a recognized specialist in the history of Hollywood, recounts the exceptional destiny of this informal group which flirted with the greats of this world, notably through Sinatra, personal friend of American President Kennedy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-11
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The Two Kennedys
1969-11-18
The Two Kennedys
Overview: Life, career and death of the two protagonists of American life sixties, John and Robert Kennedy, from the days of their ascent to the White House, the first as president, the second as a minister of justice, to the death.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-18
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Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece
1997-06-01
Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece
Overview: A documentary about the making and restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece "Vertigo." Narrated by Roddy McDowall, with behind-the-scenes talk from Barbara Bel Geddes, Henry Bumstead, Robert A. Harris, Patricia Hitchcock, James C. Katz, Kim Novak, Peggy Robertson and Martin Scorsese. Brings fresh perspective, not just to the film and the director, but to the Fifties Hollywood as well. [Included as extra with DVD release].
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-01
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Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
1990-01-01
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954-09-28
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Overview: Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-28
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Malibu
1983-01-23
Malibu
Overview: A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people living in the community.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-23
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991-10-28
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Overview: This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-28
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Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger
2006-01-01
Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger
Overview: German Documentary about the Austrian-American Movie Director Otto Preminger.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Kim Novak: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
2013-03-06
Kim Novak: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Overview: In a show taped before a live audience at the TCM Classic Film Festival in April 2012, Robert Osborne hosts an in-depth interview with actress Kim Novak concerning her life and career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-06
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The French Line
1954-02-08
The French Line
Overview: Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-08
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Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
2017-09-11
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
Overview: A star-studded roster of interviewees (including Jerry Lewis, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal) pay tribute to the legendary, multi-talented song-and-dance man.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-11
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I Am Alfred Hitchcock
2021-05-02
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Overview: Interviews and archival footage weave together to tell the story of the Master of Suspense, one of the most influential and studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-02
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To Each His Own Cinema
2007-10-31
To Each His Own Cinema
Overview: Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-31
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The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985-05-05
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Overview: Television film that served as a pilot for the reboot of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." Four classic episodes from the original show - "Incident in a Small Jail," "Man from the South," "Bang! You're Dead" and "An Unlocked Window" - were remade by contemporary directors with contemporary stars.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-05
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We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974-12-21
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Overview: Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-12-21
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