Shirley MacLaine and Kim Novak would achieve superstar status.

Cecil B. deMille series (1998) so it’s only fitting we devote a special salute to Kim, whose dual role as Madeleine Elster and Judy Barton in Hitchcock’sVertigo assures her a place in the pantheon of Hollywood’s greatest performances. The film itself was recently voted the greatest film of all time in Sight and Sound’s definitive poll of the world’s foremost filmmakers and critics.

Rita Hayworth whose career was on the decline and Cohn hoped she’d become their Marilyn Monroe.

Fred MacMurray in PushoverJudy Holliday and Jack Lemmon in Phfft, she was chosen by Joshua Logan to play the female lead in his film translation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Picnic,

Otto Preminger chose her to play opposite Frank Sinatra in The Man with the Golden Arm, and despite her inexperience and lack of self-confidence, he guided her sympathetically through dozens of takes, which enabled her to give a performance that was highly praised.

The Eddy Duchin Story, Jeff Chandler in the biopic of actress Jeanne Eagels, and again with Sinatra in Pal Joey, all box office hits, which led Hitchcock to cast her in Vertigo

Vertigo received mixed reviews, and Novak herself expressed disappointment with her performance, but she (and critics) has come around to recognize it as her best work. Even though she and Hitchcock didn’t get along during the shoot, years later she alone protested when the Oscar-winning film The Artistpurloined a section of Bernard Hermann’s classic Vertigo

Billy Wilder’sKiss Me Stupid

Mike Figgis’Liebestraum, she retired from public life emerging only occasionally to accept a lifetime achievement award.