What was the movie that is credited with making Kim Novak a star?

Picnic was one of Kim Novak's first roles and this movie made her a star.

She played Madge Owens in the film version of Picnic (1955), co-starring William Holden and Rosalind Russell. Its director, Joshua Logan, felt that it would be more in character for Novak to have red hair; she agreed to wear a red wig during filming. Picnic was a resounding critical and box office triumph, and Novak won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer.

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Greigg Graf

Scratching my head? That woman was a goddess!! Not the greatest bio or explanation of the film? You don't need to hire some people!

buhlemann

For one of her films, a critic claimed "she covered all the human emotions from A to B".

Richard D. Boyle

Helen Allard, She is most well known for Vertigo but she was already a star before Vertigo or she would not have been cast in a leading role with Jimmy Stewart in a Hitchcock major film. No one ever heard of her before Picnic and the reaction was “Wow! Who IS that?”