Kim Novak, honorary guest at the 66th Cannes Film Festival 2013
Kim Novak, iconic actress of the Golden Era of Hollywood's great classic movies, will be a honorary invited guest of this year's 66th Cannes Film Festival ( www.festival-cannes.fr ) which will take place May 15th-26th in Cannes, France. Novak will be attending the screening of Alfred Hitchcock classic film 'Vertigo', ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/ ) which will be shown in its newly restored format as part of the Cannes Classics section of the Festival. Vertigo was considered one of Kim Novak's greatest performances as the disturbed heroine, of which Hitchcock described himself as a 'love story with a strange atmosphere' - On her role in Hitchcock's Vertigo – Novak said - “What was interesting was that the scene reflected what I was going through at the time: it was the story of a woman who was forced to be someone she wasn’t.” Circumstances being that as a result of which Novak was unwilling to accept the iron rule of the s...