Well said Rose

I agree with you BUT she ruined her beautiful face with plastic surgery !! Breaks my heart to see !!!!

@@carriedillmann4455 True! i would rather see wrinkles than the plastic cartoon face.

She apparently went to a discount surgeon unfortunately

I didn't understand the bit she said about someone wanting to take Sammy D Jr's eye out. Do you or anyone on here know the back story of that.

I do and my son's do

They just don’t do interviews anymore. Everything now is a panel of people over talking and interrupting each other.

Quality presentation. Thank you

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.

HONESTLY,THE OLDER MOVIE 'S ARE BETTER TODAY AND IT'S BECAUSE OF THE DEDECATION OF THE BEST MOVIE ACTORS WITH STYLE AND PRIDE IN THEIR SELF.

So true.

Not sure if it's the TCM Film Festival or the TCM cruise but Ms. Novak will be there. So wonderful of her to still share herself with her fans.

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"

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.

Made me cry, too! And I noticed several people in the audience were also moved by her revelation.

He and TCM are the only reason I miss DirectTV.

I miss Bob. True gentleman. So glad we have his gentle scholarly appreciation of films, as archives. A treasure.

Coffy Mix So true.

Yes, and when I see Alec Baldwin and David Lettermen I miss him all the more.

Yes his sudden death felt like loss of a friend...there is no host that exudes his charm wisdom and warmth..a wonderful interview love ms. Novak

I am from Chicago as well.

Our house had a walkway as well

A very interesting interview as an actor and also revealing her incredible talent as a portrait artist.

Perfectly said.

Me too!!!🕊🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🌏

Picnic, Bell, Book and Candle, are other great Novak films.

@@lamarravery4094 ~ Indeed.Love Piewacket. Another reason for my love of Siamese cats. ᓚᘏᗢ

@@rubytuesday5412 I just love Kim Novak.

@@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.

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!!

I wonder who some of the actors were who were not so kind to her .

@@gardensofthegods read her book! One thing that surprised me was Larry Hagmans inscurities

One of the greatest films ever made and a true masterpiece.

Well said. She was terrific in Vertigo. She certainly deserved an Oscar.

Yes she should; unfortunately the attitude to the film back then was mixed.

I would have nominated her for "Jeanne Eagels".

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 ...agree 100%.

Wonderful movie. Yes, they "sizzled".

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.

Archer ha

We lana lake

Good for her! She evidently has that Contentment we all seek.

Loved it x

Me too!

I agree. She sounds intelligent and kind as well as a beauty that was always so unique to watch. She made those film's for me!!

is, not was. Shes very much alive.

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.

Sorry not tell you she has had a face left and other cosmetic work . Come on she is 80 , please

@@marieharris1230 You can do the math: born February 1933; interview in 2013 ! Are you illiterate?

They were also paired in Rear Window, another classic.

@@lamarravery4094 I believe that was Grace Kelly.

Mine, too! What a fun flick.

Wow never even heard of those movies! I can't wait to see them, especially another movie with Jimmy Stewart! Thanks!

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.

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.

That is so true.

Osborne was the pure interviewer! Never a "wanna be" star being the one being interviewed

@@billkramer2994 I agree.

@@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!!

Well said Barbara

Love that also, oe of mine was The Eddy Duchin Story

@@barblucchesi9527 She dies too early in that movie !

@Fanfanbalibar oh I know that was sad, but Marjorie Duchin died at I believe 33 years old from something relating to childbirth

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.

Big facts💯

Hi Angela, you wear a very beautiful smile

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.

@@kathleenmckenzie6261 i

White Violet ; I’ll bet people that loved you then still see your same beauty now.

Yes, and don't push their socialist values on everyone like they do today

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.

True. And and those days they had class. Nowadays…… I mean - look at the celebrities today. Christ, what disasters. Give me the fifties anytime.

Sensible woman. Chose a natural life to an artificial one. Artistic too. 🌸💖

@@valeriebellomo3573 pfffft! Just don't listen to movie stars...or reality show people either. Make up your own mind based on YOUR life...YOUR values.

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 .

Hi

Kim Novak is a very talented artist, wow who would have thought! I look forward to seeing her paintings!

She is indeed all of those things Edith

BESIDES, SHE MARRIED A VET, BOB MALLOY, ,WHO PASSED AWAY SOME 3 YEARS AGO NOW !

Having plastic surgery several times is not growing old gracefully. She has ruined her natural beauty.

Sorry to bust your bubble. But she has had. A face lift and other cosmetic procedures. Truth

@@feedtherich11 GRRRRRRR!

Great post by you. Kim and Robert. Two giants. Great interview

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.

Me also,Aussie Sheela!

agree

WOW ! Talk about the 'Me-Too movement !

E. What awpmfet a wonderful day

Me also

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.

She don't care about that💯🙏

@@SusanBishop555 couldn’t believe it myself. she should of been nominated for Picnic, The man with the golden arm & Vertigo.

"Bell, Book & Candle" was always one of my very favorite films that was originally a stage play. Such a clever, fun movie!

I loved Robert Osborne such class did a great job on all interviews

Same.

Poise, culture, erudition. And a natty dresser. He was to Turner Classic Movies what Alistair Cooke was to Masterpiece Theater on public television.

Nobody like MR. Osborne. Ms. Novak is the real deal.

Steven Travers ..and she has kept the beautiful child-woman appeal❤️

Its just a shame she did not reject the plastic surgery also.

I noted that she said in her early Hollywood Life she went to mass with her girlfriend and they used to do the rosary. That was so sweet. 💖

@@yell50 that wasn't her fault that was the surgeon's fault.

@@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

Kim should have won the Oscar for Vertigo.

She is so refreshingly ABOVE Hellywood.🌹

Hi

Hello Gorgeous you wear a very beautiful smile

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.

Yeah way better than these Hollywood so called stars we have now, they're all a bunch is shits

Definitely

@@clc7763 What an awful generalisation.

I agree.....but.....I hate the interruptions of ads. Consequently....I will NEVER buy those products.

@@sherryshelton8284 me too. I guess the ads are the price we pay for free content.

I couldn't agree more! I have gained so much knowledge on so many subjects, thank you KZfaq.

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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

Oh ok. Czech thought she was Polish. Close!

@@johnlorenzen4633 That was the awful Harry Cohn who called her the far Polak and she replied "fat I don'y know but I'm Czech !"

Novàk is actually Czech name not German. But one is certain. She is beautiful blonde.

Beautiful? She wrecked her face with plastic surgery.

gorgeous woman

@@carlosoliveira-rc2xt women are forced into that especially if you are a movie star--check on that

@Barry White You're a dog!

Bob, Bell, Book, and Candle is also one of my favorite Kim Novak movie.

Mine too! I always used to want a cat named Piewacket that I could hum too & make people fall in love with me. LOL

@@Oivey2000 I had a friend who had a Siamese cat named Piewacket and I didn't know for 30 years why they named him that until I saw Bell, Book and Candle. I don't think my friend knew either 😊

@@Oivey2000 Luisa, Bob Gina, everyone on this list. I know...! I love 'Bell, Book, and Candle' too. I hope you all enjoy 'Picnic' as well. Both movies add to the joy of the holiday season. In September 'Picnic' is one of my starter movies for with the beautiful love story and "Neewollah" reference to Halloween at the Labor Day picnic and then 'Bell, Book, and Candle' to start the Christmas Season!

Eddy Duchin Story

I found that here too. I had never seen it before and just loved it!