Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1957)

YOUNG IDEAS: NEEDLE NEWS 7064 — Cool halter takes just a yard or so of 35-inch fabric! Trim with flower embroidery. Small (10, 12); Medium (14, 16) ; Large (18, 20). Transfer. State she 801 — This cool, cute pinafore becomes a party dress by adding its little collar! Childrens sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 included. Pattern, embroidery transfer, directions 705 — This graceful swan, 71/ 2 inches, is a pocket for face cloth ; crochet matching towel edging. Favorite pineapple design. Mercerized string. No. 30 cotton 7307— Swedish weaving is so simple to do! Pattern has seven different designs, charts, two baby-motif directions. Five borders can be used in variety of widths 793 — A beautiful flower for every month of the year “ blooming ” on this cozy quilt! Diagrams, transfers of all twelve flowers included. Quilt, 72 x 102 inches 90 Send twenty-five cents (in coin) for each pattern to: Photoplay, Needlecraft Service, P. O. Box 123, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11. New York. Add five cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send extra twenty-five cents for Needlecraft Catalog. Kim’s father, Joseph Novak, a former history teacher, later became a freight dispatcher for a railroad. She had a wonderful practical down-to-earth mother. And Marilyn’s beloved Grandmother Krai was an immigrant from Prague, Czechoslovakia, who handed down to this little girl her own reverence for a worn black rosary. Not too far from this background is Kim, the girl who worries when today’s star-pressures close in so fast there’s no breather to share life with those who mean much to her. As one who is close to her says, “Kim feels badly because there’s so little time to be with all the friends she used to see. She worries. Will they understand?” Not too fast, or too far, is the meteor that is carrying Kim Novak into fame’s clouds today to bring her back to earth, rescued by her own substantial earthy heritage. Kim is grateful for her early life. “I don’t regret those years. They add to my happiness today,” she says. “Because of them I can appreciate today even more. We never went without food. We always had the necessities — just no luxuries. And today it’s a big thrill to be able to afford a few.” In spite of long hours and the wearying demands and the fierce pressures, today is a big thrill for Kim Novak. To all who consign her to a vale of tears as a “melancholy blonde,” a “bewildered beauty” and the like, she says, “I’m not unhappy. I’m working with emotion all the time. I’ve always been quick to laugh and cry. When things unhappy happen — and in this business they always seem to be happening— I cry. I’m not good at shrugging it off when something goes wrong. I show how I feel. But when it’s out and over, I don’t go around brooding or boiling under the surface as many others do. “There are all kinds of happiness. And I’ve had all kinds. But I’ve never had the work kind, and this is what I want now. Perhaps people think I’m unhappy because I don’t do things that spell happiness to them. I’ve done all that. In college I belonged to a sorority and I went to dances. I’ve gone out a lot since, and I’m not through. I’m still going to live it up like crazy. “But today, my work is my happiness. Believe me, if I were to get dressed up in party clothes — which I hate doing — and go to large parties, this would make me very unhappy. I don’t like being out with crowds of people. I have to be with a lot of people all the time in my work. I’ve taken a little cottage down at the beach now and that’s for me. Just give me a script to read and an open fire and I’m happy — “And when I’m happy — nobody could be happier,” laughs Kim. “Last week I was so happy,” she recalls typically. “It was a beautiful day. I went swimming in the ocean — the picture was going great. “I’m a moody and impulsive person and I go along with whatever I feel like doing at the time. Right now I want to work. This is work? A love scene with Jeff Chandler?” she says laughingly. Then she answers her own question about motion pictures. “This is work — but it’s my happiness now. The only kind of happiness I haven’t had is being married,” says Kim. “But that will come.” Jeanne Eagels was happy too this day. “During this carnival sequence with Jeff she’s at the very peak of her happiness,” Kim says of Jeanne. “It’s the happiest day of her life — but she doesn’t know it. After this — no more.” And suddenly her two worlds are one. “Maybe it’s the same thing with me,” says Kim. “It may be when Mac and I were playing miniature golf last year and riding bicycles on Wilshire Boulevard. Right then may have been the happiest