The Venice Film Festival has announced it will honour legendary Vertigo star Kim Novak with a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
Novak, 92, was the world’s top box office star during the late ‘50s and early ‘60s thanks to classics such as Joshua Logan’s Picnic (1955), Otto Preminger’s The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) in which she played the dual role of suicidal blonde Madeleine Elster and brunette shop girl Judy Barton.
