Hollywood’s Golden Age is taint with abuse. Kim Novak, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”, is the crown jewel of 1950’s cinema, who recalls being stunned and waking up naked after drinking only a drink at a party hosted by actor Tony Curtis – father Golden globe winner Jamie Lee Curtis – In 1958.
“Tony Curtis had brought me a drink,” 89-year-old Novak told in a banging interview Hollywood reporter.
“I don’t know, I was only, I think, one drink there. But this is the last thing I knew. I know nothing later, crossed my heart, hoping to die. Don’t know after that.” What happened or how my car came in front of my apartment. “
Novak believes his drink was spiked.
“I think Tony Curtis did,” he said. Curtis died in 2010.
But without a helpline like the #MeToo Movement – a social-justice outrage that would become a tremendous demand to end sexual harassment against women some 60 years later – she remained silent.
The “Picnic” star said, “People never talked about these kinds of things, but I could never find out … I never blacked out in my entire life.”
When he woke up the next morning, Novak said, “I’ll just tell you the truth: I didn’t have my clothes.”
The Golden Globe-winner eventually walk away from the headlines in the mid-60s. After Harry Rohan, the studio head of Columbia Pictures, passed away.
Cohan regularly referred to Novak as “dumb, fat Pollack”, she recalled in the interview – though, as the story goes, he was neither dumb, fat nor Polish.
He threatened violence for openly sharing an intimate friendship with entertainment icon Sammy Davis Jr., a black man.
While she is easily praise for having endured many “#MeToo experiences” at the hands of Hollywood high rollers, Kim Novak said Cohan was not one of her criminals.
In addition to a quick return to the spotlight as an award presenter at the Oscars in 2014 – during which Donald Trump tweeted that he should “sue his plastic surgeon” – Novak has spent half of the painting in the latter part of his life .
His watercolor, pastel and oil creations are on public display at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngistan, Ohio.
Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”, which in 2012 united “Citizen Kane” as the biggest film of all time in a vision and sound poll. The power of the #MeToo movement inspired her craft.
If she did not spend those years with the punches of old Hollywood. Novak said: “I am painting and doing what I am doing now in art. It would have taken me a few more years for this as well. “
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