Kim Novak’s confidant reveals a real reason why she left Hollywood

It has done a lot over the years about why Vertigo The Kim Novak icon did what many seemed unthinkable when he fled from Hollywood and said goodbye to an enviable and still prosperous actor that saw her collaborate with everyone, from Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart to Billy Wilder and Frank Sinatra.

But his former manager and confidant, Sue Cameron revealed a surprising new reason for Novak’s departure while participating in a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, which hosted the world premiere of Alexandre O. Philippe. Kim Novak vertigo. Cameron said that everything was reduced to … Agrarian pickles?

When he started filming the 1965 film by Richard Quine The notorious homemade In front of Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire, Novak had decided that he hated Hollywood and was ready to leave, Cameron said. Then, when she and her sister went to drive near the picturesque Carmel, California, not far from where they were filming the movie, the brothers found a beautiful property.

“[They] He found this extraordinary house that Kim called ‘Gull House’, which is all glass and rock near Big Sur, just over the sea. He bought that house immediately that day in the midst of filming, “Cameron explained, who executed the documentary.” He intended to use it during the weekends every time he was not happy in Hollywood, so he had always escaped. “At the bottom of his mind, he was already planning the escape, and that way he had a place to go.”

His plans accelerated when a landslide of 1966 claimed his house of Bel-Air, California.

“He lived on the other side of the Bel-Air hotel street in Los Angeles, in a hill, and the hill slid. He said: ‘Well, this is the signal.’ Kim firmly believes in the signs, and she said:” Well, that’s all. He took the dogs and went up to the car, ”Cameron explained during the question and answers session.” Kim loves pickles. This sounds crazy, but it loves certain pickles, like a certain sour pickles, and led to where the pickles could always obtain, and were out of the pickles. He said: ‘That is. That is a sign that there are no more pickups. Leave. Leave’. It was the last the last minute that made it say: ‘I will not return’. And she didn’t. “

Novak’s decision is also well documented in the festival selection, Kim Novak vertigoof the Swiss filmmaker Philippe, as well as the passions for animals, paint and his late equine veterinarian. The doctor is shown by competition in Venice together with the festival that presents an Achievement Award for Life to Novak, who received his prize on Monday from Guillermo del Toro and the director of the Alberto Barbera festival. In his tribute, Del Toro pointed out Novak’s decision to appear to the business. “Surprisingly, he also chose to reduce the speed, take a break at the top of his powers and seek personal fulfillment that raises horses and as a lyricist and painter.”

In The Hollywood Reporter The critic of Leslie Felperin del Doc, writes that Philippe “can take writing, direct and co -produce credits here, and appears on the screen as Novak’s interviewer, but it is Novak who feels like the one who is largely in charge.” Cameron confirmed that Novak is always in the driver’s seat in all aspects of his life.

“Speaking of someone who has represented it for decades, it only gives you what you choose to give you. She controls each interview and decides if she is doing a phone or if she is doing a zoom, she will look at the person, or get a sound of the voice, and she will decide how much she wants to give,” she said about the actress, who speaks in the documentary about her bipolar diagnosis and how that will affect her decisions. “This is a woman who never surrenders. He will not do anything unless he wants to do it. The surprise of the film is the revelations about her childhood. When you see the movie, you will understand what made her become the way she is.”

Cameron concluded that the “very critical” Novak loves Philippe’s doctor so much that made her cry.

“She loves. He loves each painting. She cried completely. He called me after seeing him, and was sobbing and sobbing, and said: ‘You did, you did.’ It was a remarkable reaction.

Novak’s reaction took Philippe off guard. “I did not expect the reaction. She sent me an email that, of course, made me cry, and the next day she left me a two -minute voice memorandum, which, you know, I will appreciate for the rest of my life,” he said. “It is beyond words, how what means to have a voice note of Kim.”