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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!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,642 posts)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)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!
longship
(40,416 posts)Such a classy person.
R&K
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)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)the year she did Falcon Crest, and also in The Mirror Crack'd.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Pretty much like most actors. But, she was a very classy lady in person.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)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.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Too bad your scenes didn't make it.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)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)women who were actors, I'm afraid. She dropped out of the Hollywood life for many years sometime in the 1960s.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)what I'm discussing.
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)A minor brush with fame. She seemed happy to help.