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Kim Novak's house: Actress Kim Novak's stunning beachside Carmel home is on sale for $12.5 million
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One time Hollywood actress Kim Novak’s former home in California’s upmarket Carmel has gone on sale for for $12.5 million.
The star, who was known for her roles in the award-winning films, Picnic, Strangers When We Meet, Pal Joey, and her twin roles in Vertigo, lived in the home until 1973.
The home enjoys a stellar position on a rocky outcrop in the upscale resort of Carmel, boasting vast sea views, where you can watch migrating whales and pelicans soaring close to the water.
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The main house oozes a rustic aesthetic, with a stone-clad, wood-burning fireplace offering inspiration for cozy living room ideas, and a statement wood-clad, beamed ceiling.
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The living room furniture is neutral, relying on the building's architecture and materials, including the natural stone floors which complement the stone just outside the doors.
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The rustic appeal – and magnificent views – continue in the bedrooms, with whitewashed wood-clad walls. One also boasts a balcony where you can sit and soak up the ocean scene.
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The bedroom, like the living room, is subtly decorated, allowing the views beyond the windows to steal the show.
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The wraparound deck out side the bedroom has a sheer drop to the cliffs below.
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If you're looking for timber kitchen ideas, this one is for you; it also has granite countertops, slate flooring and those incredible ocean views.
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Love a nook to cozy up in? This home is not short of them and, with its floor-to-ceiling glass windows, you can choose to read or simply take in the spectacular surroundings.
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Come nightfall, there's plenty of spots outside to sit and breathe in the sea air, too.
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As enchanting as the existing structures are, planning has been approved to build a 4,300-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bath main house on the site should a potential buyer need a larger retreat for family and guests.
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The area of Carmel has long been a celebrity hotspot, with long-time resident Doris Day ensuring the town is fully dog-friendly.
Clint Eastwood was Carmel mayor twice and also owns a restaurant in town, while it's also been the home or getaway of the likes of John Steinbeck, Salvadore Dali, Jimi Hendrix among others.
The listing agent for Kim Novak’s former home is Jonathan Spencer of Jonathan Spencer Properties, Carmel.
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Born in Chicago, Kim, who is now 88, was a movie star in the 1950s and 60s. In her mid-30s, Kim semi-retired from acting to focus on her talent for drawing and painting and to escape the artificial Hollywood environment.
During this time, she painted, wrote poetry and song lyrics. Her lyrics were so good that they were used by both Harry Belafonte and the Kingston Trio. She made a few short forays back into acting with her last major film in 1969, The Great Train Robbery.
In addition to Carmel, Kim also lived in another of California’s prettiest areas, Big Sur, where she raised horses.
In the late 1990s, Novak bought a ranch on the Rogue River in Oregon with her veterinarian husband. Though he died several years ago, she still lives there and still rides her horse and enjoys her art.
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Escape from Hollywood – Carmel Magazine
For years, Carmel residents have pointed to a rocky outcropping jutting into the ocean in the Carmel Highlands, saying “Kim Novak used to live there.” She left the beloved home she called “Gull House” nearly four decades ago—but some people leave a lasting impression through their time in a place, much like Clint Eastwood’s short stint as mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea.
Novak adored Gull House and it’s easy to understand why. A distinctive, simple-yet-elegant stone edifice perched on the rocks above the endlessly churning sea, it features unobstructed ocean views.
There is only one other home visible from the property now, and when she lived there, there were none, affording ultimate solitude to an actress who was disillusioned with fame and its pitfalls. Novak came here to escape the loss of privacy that comes with being a top-tier movie star; she came to this breathtakingly beautiful locale to allow the chilly Pacific to wash away the trappings of Hollywood fame.
Novak’s film career was meteoric. After roles in a few mostly forgotten films beginning with 1953’s “The French Line,” she scored a stunning career coup, starring opposite one of show business’ biggest names, Frank Sinatra, in “The Man with the Golden Arm,” just two years later.
“I went right to the top,” she says. “I had no experience, and I think that was good because I was real, in a time when Hollywood was anything but real.”
By “real,” she explains that she wasn’t a trained thespian. “I’m appreciated more as an actress now than then. I was a re-actor, responding to a script or my co-actors.
There was a part of me in every role. I would be that character as if she were born in me.”
A string of ever-bigger productions with A-list cast members followed that debut: “Picnic,” the film adaptation of William Inge’s Pulitzer-Prize winning play opposite William Holden; “The Eddie Duchin Story,” with Tyrone Power; and “Pal Joey,” with Sinatra and Rita Hayworth.
What followed was the film that would put the name Kim Novak on the Hollywood map (and on a star in the sidewalk at 6332 Hollywood Boulevard): “Vertigo,” directed by the great Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart. Set mainly in San Francisco, a few scenes were filmed around the Carmel area, including near Point Lobos. It’s well-documented that Hitchcock could be hard on his players, but Novak didn’t experience any of that. She did, however, have issues with Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn, the man who “discovered” her.
Cohn had a reputation as a tyrant, but he had made several young women into big box-office attractions, including Rita Hayworth, Jean Harlow, Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe.
When Marilyn Novak, a 20-year-old beauty walked into his office, he knew he had his next star. One problem: there was already a Marilyn in Hollywood. To avoid any confusion with Monroe, he dictated that Marilyn Novak would henceforth be known as “Kit Marlowe.” She might have been new to Hollywood, but Novak was no pushover. As she wrote in her new book “Kim Novak: Her Art and Life,” “I did win my fight over identity. I wouldn’t allow…Cohn to take my Bohemian roots away by denying me my family name. Novak. I stood my ground and won my first major battle.”
She also succeeded in changing “Kit”—a name she despised—to “Kim.” In a tongue-in-cheek nod to that clash, in the 1980s, the character she played in the hit television prime-time soap “Falcon Crest” was named Kit Marlowe.
“The Man with the Golden Arm” and “Vertigo” are both in the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry as “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”
On February 13, 1933, in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, Joseph and Blanche (née Kral) Novak welcomed the birth of their second daughter, naming her Marilyn Pauline.
The family was of Czech descent and Joseph put food on the table through his work as a railroad clerk. By all accounts, Marilyn and her sister Arlene enjoyed a typical Midwestern childhood, though she was quite shy as a young girl. Her well-known love of animals began early in life.
“My sister and I would go out looking for injured birds and animals to help bring them back to health,” Novak recalls. “We put a sign in our window reading, ‘Bring Stray Pets Here.'”
Though she was an indifferent student—”I daydreamed so much…always looking out the window”—Novak was gifted with a natural talent for drawing, an artistic outlet she has pursued to this day.
“One thing I excelled at was art,” she says. “As a little girl, I would go to the railroad station with my father and sketch the people passing through.”
Despite her lack of interest in schoolwork, her talent landed her a scholarship to the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago.
“I wanted to be an artist. That was my love then.
Later, when I was making movies, I would draw sketches in my scripts to help me develop my characters and I would paint on the weekends.”
She says she still has the “Vertigo” script containing her sketches for the characters of Madeline Elster and Judy Barton “somewhere” but is in no hurry to go looking for it.
Novak held a series of jobs in Chicago, including elevator operator and dental assistant. She won a beauty contest (“Miss Snow Queen”) and was encouraged to try her hand at modeling. Finding success in that endeavor, she landed a gig touring the country as “Miss Deep Freeze” for a refrigerator company, ironic, since she later came to epitomize the “icy blonde” Hitchcock prototype.
Like so many before her, she decided to try her luck in California, traveling the well-worn path to Los Angeles. She signed with a modeling agency and was soon offered a small film part that led to a contract with Columbia Pictures.
In 1962, Novak’s sister Arlene was visiting the set while Kim was filming scenes for “The Notorious Landlady” (costarring Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire) on the coast south of Carmel.
Deciding to wander around the neighborhood, Arlene came upon a house with a for sale sign out front.
“She said ‘I’ve seen a house you’ll love,'” Novak recalls. “We walked over. That day was heavy with fog, but just as I neared the house, it lifted, and the bright sun revealed the whole place. There had been a huge storm the previous year and most of the windows were boarded up. I walked around the place on its catwalks. It was beautiful, everything I loved, high ceilings, stained glass, a bathtub that looked out on the ocean. In fact, that bathtub had a big rock in it, tossed in by the storm.”
The film company returned to Hollywood the next day, but the small stone house on the promontory stayed on Novak’s mind.
“I called the Realtor and bought it over the phone without going inside,” she says. “Gull House became my hideaway while still living in LA.”
After a mudslide destroyed her Bel Air home, Novak decided she was done with Hollywood and made Gull House her main residence.
“I loved it there. The ocean would crash right on the windows.” She soon had a menagerie keeping her company.
It was also an ideal place for her to indulge her love of creating art; an unparalleled location in which to paint.
“I had a goat named Creature, and Warlock, a Great Dane,” she says. “I loved piling them into my Jaguar convertible and taking them down the coast to Nepenthe, a lovely Big Sur restaurant. They knew me there and expected me to come with the guys. We would relax on the patio and have a White Russian. Sometimes Umi the racoon came too.”
Disputes with zoning authorities concerning her goat led the actress to move to a larger, animal-friendly property near Jacks Peak in Monterey.
“Also, I could now have my horses with me,” she says, “especially Nur Jahan (“Light of the universe”), an Arabian stallion and the love of my life.”
By this time, Novak also had a llama and a Siamese cat.
“I could ride into the park and in the hills surrounding my home.
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The move proved fortuitous in another, more personal way.
“I was breeding horses then. A mare was birthing and having problems. It was late, and I called a new veterinarian I didn’t know. Bob Malloy came over at midnight and I invited him in after he saw to her. I made a fire from wood I had cut myself and offered him chili, which turned out to be his favorite food. He had two bowls. We chatted and found we had a lot in common.” They began dating and married in 1975.
The couple later moved to Oregon where Malloy continued his veterinary practice. Novak became his “unpaid assistant.” Most importantly, she devoted more and more time to painting. “When I’m painting, I get to be producer, director and the cast,” she says. “It comes directly from my heart and soul.”
Novak’s soulmate passed away last December after 44 years of marriage. She now lives alone in a house on the Rogue River in Oregon that she designed herself. Well, not completely alone: she still has plenty of animals to keep her company.
Painting has proven to be a vital part of the grieving process for her.
“I like to start early in the morning. All night long, I dream things I want to express. Some days, I can’t wait to get to my studio and I’m barefoot at the easel first thing in the morning when I’m inspired.” The work consumes her on occasion. “Occasionally I’ll get to the studio in the evening, start working and find myself still painting when the sun comes up.”
Novak’s colorful paintings, many that include “hidden messages and images” attracted the attention of the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. That museum staged an exhibition of her work in 2019.
The institute wrote on its website, “Novak’s artwork, Impressionistic and surrealistic, has a dynamic effect where surrealism meets traditional realism. It has a strong appeal in its essence of the ethereal as the artist employs the unique qualities of the pastel medium to render a sense of altering states.”
The exhibit became the inspiration for “Kim Novak: Her Art and Life,” a compilation of her paintings and poetry.
It also contains reminiscences and never-before-seen personal photographs from her Hollywood years.
“Many times, I’ve been asked to write a ‘tell all’ about my time in Hollywood, but I really have no interest in that. This book gave me the chance to tell my story, share some of my poetry and my favorite paintings.” Copies are available at butlerart.com.
Unlike many actors that get caught up in the Hollywood lifestyle, Kim Novak has succeeded in putting all that behind her and living a healthy life full of the things she loves most, including her Oregon surroundings.
“Living here on the Rogue River is comparable to living at Gull House by the sea. But there is lots of open land where I can ride my horses. I almost feel guilty that I live such a good life.”
Giclee prints of Novak’s art are available. Learn more at kimnovakartist.com.
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Kim Novak is an American film actress who made her way into the world on her own, despite her origins.
In this article, we will introduce you to the biography of Kim Novak, or rather Marilyn Pauline Novak.
Biography of the famous blonde
Marilyn was born in Illinois, Chicago on February 13, 1933. Her father worked for the railroad and her mother taught at the school.
As a child, she was a completely normal child, but when she graduated from high school, she won a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago, and after graduating she began modeling in a large department store.
Beautiful eyes, chiseled face, thick hair, along with a feminine figure, gave her the opportunity to move up the modeling career ladder and soon she received a modeling school scholarship.
During her studies, she had to earn extra money as a fashion model, then as a saleswoman, as a dentist's assistant and even as an elevator operator.
Soon the girl got the position of a promoter of the famous at that time brand of refrigerators "Deepfreeze" and traveled all over the world with them.
She moved to Los Angeles to live.
Star Trek Kim Novak
Marilyn first appeared on the screen in a cameo role in the musical "French Flight", after which she almost immediately signed a contract with Columbia Pictures.
The 20-year-old beauty had to make some concessions for this: she changed her name Marilyn Pauline to the more extravagant Kim.
She chose him in honor of the son of a friend who gave her money for her studies; dyed her hair blonde, but she did not agree to change the Czech surname Novak.
This is how Kim Novak was born, who in 1954 played the main character in the film " Trivia " and the fatal beauty Janice in the comedy " Phi ".
In 1955, Kim received the role of Maj Owen, a beauty queen, which brought her fame and recognition, as well as several awards, including the Golden Globe.
In 1955, the actress starred in the film " The Man with the Golden Pen ". It was a great success, as her on-screen mate was Frank Sinatra himself.
The actress played the mistress of the protagonist Molly.
Their next collaboration, in 1957, was Pal Joey . Then she got the image of a beautiful star.
Actress in "Joey's Pal"So she got on the cover of Time, which gave her the courage to go on strike and demand an increase in fees, which amounted to $ 1,250 a week. And it was not enough.
In 1958 she worked with Alfred Hitchcock in his thriller Vertigo . The director was unhappy with her. According to him, she does not justify the hopes that appear at her sight.
In 1958, Kim Novak played in the film " The Bell, the Book and the Candle " as a young witch. Her on-screen lover was James Stewart, who was 25 years older than Novak. The actress strongly opposed this, and after that Stewart no longer played with young actresses.
Despite this, the following year, she is again paired with an older actor in the film " Midnight ".
In 1960, the artist plays one of the main characters in the film " We are strangers when we meet " and " The boys go for a walk ".
Further, the girl already understands that she cannot resist the fight against new young competitors, and decides not to pursue fame.
In the 1960s she had only six significant works in which she starred:
- " Thirty-three misfortunes " - Mrs. Hardwick.
- " The burden of human passions x" - Mildred Rogers.
- « Kiss me stupid " - prostitute Polly.
- " Love Adventures Mall Flenders " - Mall Flenders.
- " The Legend of Lila Claire " - Lila Claire, Elsa Brinkman, Elsa Campbell.
- " Big bank robbery " - Lida Kebanov's sister.
1970s works became even smaller, and only a few stand out:
- “ Third girl from the left ” - Gloria Joyce.
- « Satan's Triangle " - Eve.
- " White Buffalo " - Jenny Schermerhorn.
- " Beautiful gigolo-unfortunate gigolo " - Helga von Kaiserling.
Further, the woman, being already close to 50 years old, played mainly secondary roles.
Despite the rapidly fading fame, the actress has something to be proud of.
She has received BAFTA awards for best actress, a Golden Globe, a special award from the Berlin Film Festival and she even has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Kim Novak's personal life
Kim Novak's personal life has developed much more successfully than most celebrities. Kim Novak in her youth was never deprived of the attention of men.
After separating from her first husband Richard Johnson after a year of relationship, she married veterinarian Robert Malloy in 1976 and raised his children with him, which he had from a previous marriage. She lives with him to this day in Oregon, on her own ranch, where she breeds horses and rides horses.
The actress has found a new hobby and is now painting.
Before all this, there was a rumor about her that she was dating black musician Sammy Davis. She met him at Harry Cohn's party. The rumor made such an impression on the public that a wave of negativity swept over the actress and Sammy.
In order to save her life and the girl's career, the musician had to urgently enter into a fictitious marriage, and the actress disappeared for a while.
Kim is used to being beautiful and desirable. She wanted to forever be the woman she played on screen. Therefore, when her beauty began to fade, the former star resorted to the help of plastic surgeons, who, instead of helping her become younger, completely disfigured the once graceful face.
Photos before and after Kim Novak's plastic surgery are shocking, everything is so bad.
Star before and after plastic surgeryThere are many videos and posts on VK where they discuss the history of the actress, calling to beware of incompetent plastic surgeons.
Do you think plastic surgery for the sake of maintaining beauty is dangerous, or is Kim's case more of an exception? Can a person with a story like Kim Novak's biography age naturally or should he try to keep his youth?
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Biography Kim Novak
NOVAK, KIM (Novak, Kim).
Real name: Marilyn. She was born on February 13, 1933 in Chicago, Czech by nationality.
Tall, slender, with a thin fashion model waist, Kim Novak in her heyday had a catchy and somewhat chilly beauty. The story of how Novak got to Hollywood seems like an implausible fairy tale, woven from happy coincidences. One day, 20-year-old Marilyn, who had previously starred only in commercials for Thor, which produced refrigerators, and did not think about a career as a movie star, was riding a bicycle through Beverly Hills. She pedaled with her unusually slender, long legs, when Hollywood agent Lewis Schurr, a well-known connoisseur of female beauty, also rode a bicycle towards her. His first line was, "Have you tried being an actress?" The girl did not try, but she really wanted to change her occupation. She was introduced to the famous producer Harry Cohn, who was just looking for a new star to replace the too, in his opinion, spoiled and capricious Rita Hayworth.
It was difficult for Novak to develop professionally.
At Kohn's insistence, she had to change a lot in herself: smile and posture, gait and hairstyle. Sometimes she doubted - was this whole idea in vain? To which she received a cheerful response: “Don't worry, baby. In this studio - and it was the famous Columbia - they would have made a star out of your grandmother. When Cohn announced Novak for the role of Madge Owen in the film Picnic, the director of the tape angrily exclaimed: “Who needs this girl!” But the sensitive producer was not mistaken in his choice. The actress starred in only a few films, and all of America already knew her. The only thing that remains a mystery to everyone is how the name Kim appeared. In her first films and advertisements, the girl performed under her own name - Marilyn.
By 1956, Novak was already a star at the height of his fame, starring in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The Eddie Duchin Story (1956), and The Picnic (1956). At the Cannes Film Festival in 1956, she was in the center of everyone's attention, and in 1957 in Rome, a crowd of her exalted fans provoked unprecedented traffic jams, which the press enthusiastically murmured about, fueling even greater interest in the new star.
True, a few weeks after that she ends up in the hospital with nervous overwork - the burden of success turned out to be unbearable. But her wheel of fortune, however, picked up speed. At 1958 A. Hitchcock invites the actress to his film "Vertigo". (His favorite actress, Grace Kelly, no longer starred with him, having married the Prince of Monaco, and the famous director opted for Kim who resembled her in appearance.) With his help, Novak created two different images here: the majestic, elegant, rich blonde Madeleine Esther and vulgar, tasteless saleswoman - brunette Judy Barton. At the same time, in both cases, Novak managed to feel the confusion of the feelings of his heroines, to express a complex tangle of psychological contradictions, to convey the increase in dramatic tension.
In two films filmed in the UK, The Burden of Human Passion (1963) as Mildred and The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flenders (1965), Novak showed herself as a subtle dramatic actress. Particularly attractive in her was the interweaving of femininity and sexuality, the combination of an ingenuous girl and an exquisite lady.
Unlike Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak didn't wear her "sex appeal" like a medal on her chest. Here everything was thinner, as if hidden somewhere from prying eyes, and it was all the more provocative that outwardly her image was colored with girlish innocence. She has everything from "rubbish", but when you look into her eyes - she looks like a child.
Novak willingly acted in episodes, she knew how to make the role bright and prominent with a few strokes: this is how she appeared on our screen in the film “Pepe” (1960, in our box office “Mexican in Hollywood”). She starred in comedies, and in comic situations, her heroines sometimes spoke about the sad aspects of their lives, disorder, dissatisfaction. Such, for example, is the unlucky roadside restaurant waitress in Kiss Me, Stupid (1964). There were also satirically ruthless roles in her repertoire, for example, movie star Lola Brewster in The Mirror Cracked (1980) based on the novel by Agatha Christie.
Novak's public success and personal life went in different directions.
She has a closed, independent character. And this often bred her with people. She broke off relations with G. Kohn, although he made a star out of her. William Holden and Tyrone Power, who starred with her, spoke sharply about Kim. Perhaps the only actor with whom she maintained a great relationship was James Stewart, her Vertigo co-star. From her first husband, Richard Johnson, whom she met in The Love Adventures of Moll Flenders and whom she married at 1965, she left a few months after the wedding. Without regret, Novak also parted ways with Hollywood. For her, the death of Marilyn Monroe was a shock. She perceived her tragic fate as a sacrifice made for the sake of the "American dream". And I decided to change my own life. In 1976, she remarried veterinarian Robert Mallow, who was seven years her junior. The couple live happily in Big Sur. Their villa is like a small zoo-reserve. Kim has always dreamed of being surrounded by animals, and now her dream has come true. Lamas, wild goats, cats roam around the house, she feeds them from her hands.
