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Kim Novak Trivia
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- On July 24 2000, she watched her memento-filled house in Eagle Point, Oregon, go up in flames. A deputy fire marshall said that the blaze was probably the result of a tree that fell across an electrical power line. Included in the loss were scripts to some of her movies ("Vertigo" and "Picnic") as well as her computer, which contained her long-gestating autobiography. Spared, however, were her menagerie of animals, including horses and llamas, as well as the star's husband of 24 years, veterinarian Bob Malloy.
- As a starlet with Columbia Pictures, she resisted pressure to change her name to Kit Marlowe. Years later, the name was used for the character she played on the television series Falcon Crest. (She did agree to change her first name from Marilyn to Kim, as the public associated her given name with Marilyn Monroe.)
- Turned down the female lead in both Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and The Hustler (1961).
- Raises horses and llamas in Oregon and California
- For a scene in Picnic (1955) in which she had to cry, she asked director Joshua Logan to pinch her black and blue off screen, telling him, "I can only cry when I'm hurt."
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