Charles River Editors

Includes pictures. Includes Novak's own quotes about her life and career. Includes a bibliography for further reading. "My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me." Kim Novak A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees?...

" At the end of the 20th century, the American Film Institute compiled a list of the 25 greatest actors and actresses in Hollywood over the past 100 years, but only a select few worked all the way back in the silent era of films, before “talkies” revolutionized the industry at the end of the 1920s." -- introduction.