Kim Novak, 86, is an American actress with hit career accolades like Picnic, 'Bell, Book and Candle,' and The Mirror Crack'd. She was in Los Angeles trying to do some extra works in acting when Columbia Pictures signed a deal with her in 1954, opening a track in the entertainment industry.
Kim also appeared in the movies and TV shows like The Children, Satan's Triangle, Falcon Crest, and The Great Bank Robbery. Her last film before retirement was Liebestraum in 1991.
Kim's Net Worth Values $15 Million; More On Her Movies And TV Shows
Through an acting career and other significant endeavors, Kim Novak treasures a net worth of $15 million.
Her journey in the entertainment industry started in 1954 after she signed a deal with Columbia Pictures. Within a year, she landed a significant role in the 1955 movies 'Picnic' and 'The Man With The Golden Arm.'
Kim Novak in the 1955 movie, Picnic (©: Amazon.com)
Similarly, she starred alongside James Stewart as Madeline Elster/Judy Barton in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller movie, Vertigo (1958). In the same year, she made her breakthrough through a fantasy/romance movie, Bell, Book, and Candle.
In 1966, she went far from the entertainment industry; however, she appeared in The Mirror Crack'd (1980) and landed a regular role in primetime series Falcon Crest (1986–1987). After the 1991 movie Liebestraum, she permanently announced her retirement from the film.
As an actress, she played several roles in numerous movies and TV shows like The Children (1990), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985), Malibu (1983), Satan's Triangle (1973), The Great Bank Robbery (1969), and many others.
Throughout her nearly five decades of journey in the entertainment industry, she received the honors of two Golden Globe Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and an Honorary Golden Bear Award.
After Kim's retirement from the entertainment industry, she now works as a painter and a visual artist.
Kim Novak And Her Husband Lost Their House In Fire; Where Does She Live?
Kim and her husband, Dr. Robert Malloy's house, got caught with fire back in November 1997, destroying her annotated scripts from the Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo and Picnic. She also lost her computer, where she had been writing her autobiography.
Despite that, her horses, Llamas, and orphaned Canadian geese were saved from the breathtaking fire.
Sources claimed that the electric shuts were the reason for the fire, which linking a tree falling in a power line. As Kim had a one-storeyed wood-frame house, fire easily devastated.
The couple moved to Oregon from California back in the 1970s. They had bought their house in 2003, which was built in 1937.
Kim Novak currently lives in her Klamath Falls house in Oregon, in the United States with her husband.