Kim Novak says she wakened bare after celebration with Tony Curtis

Hollywood’s Golden Age is tarnished by abuse. 

Kim Novak, the crown jewel of Fifties cinema who starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,” recollects waking up dazed and bare after having just one drink at a celebration hosted by actor Tony Curtis — father of Golden Globe winner Jamie Lee Curtis — in 1958. 

“Tony Curtis had introduced me a drink,” Novak, 89, defined in a bombshell interview with the Hollywood Reporter. 

“I don’t know, I solely had, I feel, one drink there. However that’s the very last thing I knew. I have no idea something afterward, cross my coronary heart, hope to die. Don’t know what occurred after that or how my automobile acquired again in entrance of my condominium.”

Novak believes her drink was spiked. 

“I feel Tony Curtis did it,” she mentioned. Curtis died in 2010.

However with out helplines such because the #MeToo motion — a social-justice outcry that might grow to be a forceful demand to finish sexual harassment towards girls some 60 years later — she stayed silent. 

“Folks didn’t speak about issues like that, however I may by no means determine it out … I’ve by no means blacked out in my whole life,” the “Picnic” star mentioned. 

When she wakened the following morning, Novak mentioned, “I’ll simply inform you the trustworthy reality: I didn’t have my garments on.”

The Golden Globe winner in the end stepped away from the limelight within the mid-’60s, after then-Columbia Footage studio head Harry Cohn died. 

Cohn usually referred to Novak because the “dumb, fats Polack,” she recalled within the interview — though, because the story notes, she was neither dumb, fats nor Polish.  

He additionally threatened violence for brazenly sharing an intimate friendship with leisure icon Sammy Davis Jr., a black man.

And whereas she readily admits to having endured a number of “#MeToo experiences” by the hands of Hollywood excessive rollers, Novak mentioned Cohn wasn’t one in all her perpetrators. 

In addition to a fast return to the highlight as an awards presenter on the Oscars in 2014 — throughout which Donald Trump tweet-suggested that she ought to “sue her plastic surgeon” — Novak has spent the latter half of her life portray. 

Her watercolor, pastel and oil creations are on public show on the Butler Institute of American Artwork in Youngstown, Ohio. 

Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,” which unseated “Citizen Kane” as the best film of all time in 2012 in a Sight & Sound ballot, and the efficiency of the #MeToo motion encourage her craft. 

If she hadn’t spent these years rolling with the punches of previous Hollywood, Novak mentioned, “I’d be portray and doing simply what I’m doing now in artwork. I’d’ve had just a few extra years up on it, too.”