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MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 05:00 PM Mar 2014

Kim Novak and I...

met once. It was in 1963. My college roommate and I took off one Friday afternoon from our college on the central coast of California to drive up CA Hwy 1 to San Francisco. Typically of college freshmen, we had a really crap car. In Big Sur, it started to overheat. We pulled into a driveway on Hwy 1, and walked down to the house there with a gallon jug to beg some water for the radiator.

I knocked on the door, and Kim Novak opened it. "What can I do for you boys?" she asked.

I managed to stammer out our reason for disturbing her and she showed us where the outdoor water faucet was. We filled our jug and continued our trip after walking back to the car.

I met Kim Novak and could barely articulate our problem. Pretty suave of me, I think.

Kim Novak! Uff da!

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Kim Novak and I... (Original Post) MineralMan Mar 2014 OP
My dear MineralMan! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2014 #1
Indeed I did. It was a real facepalm moment. MineralMan Mar 2014 #2
I have always loved Kim Novak. longship Mar 2014 #3
I looked it up. She's 12 years older than I am. MineralMan Mar 2014 #4
She was a little before my time, but I thought she was fantastic joeybee12 Mar 2014 #5
She made some very good movies, and some mediocre ones. MineralMan Mar 2014 #6
I met her in 1953. DURHAM D Mar 2014 #7
Cool! I saw Picnic. MineralMan Mar 2014 #8
Kim Novak is a very classy lady. Sadly, I think that hurt her career. rhett o rick Mar 2014 #9
The 50s and 60s weren't kind to MineralMan Mar 2014 #10
That was then. Now you would probably be met by security guards. Downwinder Mar 2014 #11
Yes. That was then, and that's MineralMan Mar 2014 #13
She appears to be a very kind woman. nt Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2014 #12
Yes, I think so. MineralMan Mar 2014 #14
Have you seen her paintings? Lovely. nt Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2014 #15
wow. vertigo is my favorite movie. love the late 50's san fran scenery. nt TheFrenchRazor Mar 2014 #16

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,642 posts)
1. My dear MineralMan!
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 05:10 PM
Mar 2014

I'll bet it wasn't long before you were kicking yourself for not having said what most red-blooded young men would have suggested!



MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
2. Indeed I did. It was a real facepalm moment.
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 05:12 PM
Mar 2014

She was very kind, though, to a couple of strange young guys. She seemed more amused than anything else. And with good reason, I guess. What a couple of dufus kids!

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
4. I looked it up. She's 12 years older than I am.
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 05:20 PM
Mar 2014

So, she would have been 30 then. Still, she was a sexy movie star, as far as I was concerned. It was a minor brush with fame, I guess, and one I wasn't old enough to deal with in any sort of grownup way. Funny.

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
5. She was a little before my time, but I thought she was fantastic
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 05:22 PM
Mar 2014

the year she did Falcon Crest, and also in The Mirror Crack'd.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
6. She made some very good movies, and some mediocre ones.
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 05:31 PM
Mar 2014

Pretty much like most actors. But, she was a very classy lady in person.

DURHAM D

(32,610 posts)
7. I met her in 1953.
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 05:33 PM
Mar 2014

They filmed much of the movie Picnic near my hometown. I was even hired as an extra in a few scenes with a bunch of kids playing in the park. The scenes did not make it into the movie.

She was very nice and seemed extremely shy.

otoh - Rosalind Russel was not nice to anyone.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
9. Kim Novak is a very classy lady. Sadly, I think that hurt her career.
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 05:49 PM
Mar 2014

I saw an interview with her not too long ago. If I remember right (and I often dont) I think she said that she wanted more challenging roles and the studio wanted a glamor girl. Plez correct me if I am wrong about that.

Still a very classy lady.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
10. The 50s and 60s weren't kind to
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 05:55 PM
Mar 2014

women who were actors, I'm afraid. She dropped out of the Hollywood life for many years sometime in the 1960s.

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