Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1963)

Continued from page 35 He is very charming, has a marvelous sense of humor and he has a wonderful unserious way about him, a way of accepting reality but not being disillusioned by it. That’s my big trouble, I guess. Louis and I were both born on February 13. Collette and I spent that weekend at Georges’ and Louis was there. But the notion some people have that there is anything between Louis and myself is nonsense. What they’re saying about us just isn’t true.” Yet, though Kim rejects reality and he makes light of it. they now must face it head on — because it looks as if, once again, Kim Novak will be pointed out as a “home-wrecker.” Louis Feraud, thirty-nine, is a Parisian fashion designer, comfortably married with a fine wife and lovely children. He pursues, with unusual success, a profession that has swamped others with failure. Suddenly with all the rush of a snapped stitch he has been engulfed in a wave of emotions that comes from a lonely and disillusioned woman, a woman who is con sidered by some to be more beautiful than Liz Taylor. That woman is Kim Novak. The whispers of the Novak-Feraud romance spread through Paris like a grass fire in dry season. Extra-curricular love affairs in otherwise sound marriages are not new to sophisticated Parisians. But in this case an American beauty, Kim Novak, had come to Paris to marry the American movie director, Richard Quine. Suddenly the wedding was postponed. And suddenly Quine was gone and the lonely beauty remained. It is not a new situation even for Americans. Unfortunately it is also not a new situation for Kim ! And so, whether it is true or false, Kim finds herself the object of another headlined romance. How does it happen? Is Kim the victim of a compulsion that lures her to love and then drives her back into the ache of heart and torment of the mind? Every close friend of Kim’s has a different answer. Beautiful body, cold feet “She has the warmest, most beautiful body of any woman I have ever known,” says an ex-lover, “but she suffers from one of the most terrible cases of cold feet I’ve ever seen, too. She is a little like a beautiful race horse. She never balks at the start, it’s the finish line that scares her.” “People just don’t understand Kim,” says a Novak girl friend. “But her problem is very simple. She simply does not believe in the permanency of love. For herself, yes; but it is impossible for her to be sure that the man will be faithful. Hollywood’s done it to her. She once said that her only dread of marriage is that two years after the wedding she’d wake up some morning and find her husband gone and then realize that she had been only the legalized wife to a man who never intended to be true.” Another girl friend has this to say: ; “Kim doesn’t know what love is. When I tried to explain to her that no woman really knows what love is, the answer : didn’t satisfy her. She insisted that love j was bound to make her feel different, different from any other feeling she’s ever had. She said she’s never met a man who gave her that feeling long enough to convince her that it would always be there. Maybe she’s right. “This thing with Feraud. I’ll guarantee you it won’t last three months.” A man who has known Kim since she was a commercial model, opening and closing display refrigerators, says. “I know Feraud and I know Kim. I can see him losing his head but he is involved with a woman who just never has grown up. : Kim is still living in the fairyland of ! her childhood. Her world abounds with Prince Charmings, gentlemen mysteriously wealthy, adoration, pomp, splendor and adventure. “Feraud, I’d say, is a fairy godfather. He touches you and you are beautiful. You must remember his success in his profession as a fashion designer depends almost entirely on his imagination, his creativity. He lives in a world remarkably similar, in some aspects, to the world Kim lives in. I’m not at all surprised that they have hit it off so well. I only hope Mrs. . Feraud understands. If she doesn’t, Kim and Louis are in trouble.” Kim and Louis are in trouble, for Mrs. Feraud doesn’t understand. So great is Mrs. Feraud’s lack of understanding that according to all reports from Paris she had a long talk with her husband and in calm, certain tones and with words any husband could understand, she said : “Louis, I am your wife and the mother of your children. Until now we have been happy. I am grateful for that. For a long time I have ignored the talk and the backstairs gossip about you and this woman from America. But it has now reached the point where I must ask you to deny these terrible rumors. I am sure I need not tell you why.” Feraud is said to have looked at his wife ! helplessly. The Frenchwoman knew what she had j to say next. “I will not say anything more about it I then,” she added. “I have only one final | question. Whom do you choose, Miss Novak ( O 99 or me: How long it took him to reply is not known. Whether he ever replied at all, in words, has not been confirmed. His answer, however, can be found in the fact that a few days later he boarded a plane for Los Angeles and Kim. The only thing Kim wants His arrival must have been important to Kim. It was the rare occasion that could draw her from her picturesque hideaway by the Pacific Ocean in Carmel, a VOTE NOW AND WIN A PRIZE! We'll put your name on one of 400 prizes — and all you have to do is fill out and mail this ballot. 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