In the first episode of You Must Remember This, a new podcast devoted to the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century, Karina Longworth and guest Farran Nehme (author of the Self-Styled Siren blog) work back from Kim Novak's appearance at the 2014 Academy Awards to trace the ways in which Novak has always been an outlier amongst Hollywood beauties. Briefly the biggest star in Hollywood, Novak's career has always been defined by the tension between her well-crafted image, and her resistance to being crafted into something she was not. 

**Show Notes**

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

“Let’s Talk About Kim Novak” Farran Nehme, Selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com
http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com/2014/03/lets-talk-about-kim-novak.html
“Kim Novak Returning to SF To Share Her Art” 
http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Kim-Novak-returning-to-S-F-to-share-her-art-3625341.php
“Bell, Book and Scandal: Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Jr.” from The Bad and the Beautiful by Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair
Kim Novak: Reluctant Goddess by Peter Harry Brown
Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic by Dan Auiler
Spellbound by Beauty: Hitchcock and His Women by Donald Spoto

AUDIO SOURCES:

Hitchcock and Truffaut (and translator!) audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc2s9uSXWKM
Vertigo trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5jvQwwHQNY
Novak speaking to British Film Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Im8wCTSCw4
Picnic:
The Legend of Lylah Clare directed by Robert Aldrich
Picnic directed by Joshua Logan
Yahoo! UK report on the Oscars: https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/oscars-2014--kim-novak-slated-on-twitter-after-rare-appearance-034850030.html

Songs:
“Perfect Neglect in a Field of Statues” by Eluvium
“Mademoiselle Mabry” by Miles Davis
“Life Round Here” by James Blake

You Must Remember This: The Hard Hollywood Life Of Kim Novak

Creator/writer/narrator of You Must Remember This, a podcast devoted to exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood' first century. I used to be the film critic for the LA Weekly, and I've authored books on George Lucas, Al Pacino and Meryl Streep.

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