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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1954)
V Kim Novak May Replace Rita Hayworth By JAMES BACON HOLLYWOOD tm Columbia Studios, weary of too much wran gling and too few pictures from Rita Hayworth. is quietly groom ing a voluptious Bohemian from Chicago for the Hayworth spot on Statesman, Salem, Ore.. Thursw Juno 24, 1954 (Soc 1) 9 Soo These "Seo SlroB" For Foil end EitrelstT 10" BEACH BALL o-fosei Motor Ooslfsl. ia rotter tar 0 fcca m bMkyarC QflC lat-lar $I.1f. SSJ SWIM CAPS Attraetlvt Molded Dosif ml Watertight Hairline Soals! Satavt kaikaat cafH far sm tOraail la walra mm sra eelars. Swim Cops 7f -SSJ?- r i&faJ A - the lot. None of the Columbia brass will admit publicly that curvy Kim Novak, a 'former model, is get ting sach a build-up but the signs are unmistakable. Kim, a green-eyed blonde with more curves thaa an Alpine pass, doesn't look the least bit like red haired Rita. That's as it should be because look-alikes never get very far in Hollywood. Her figure is superior to Rita's and, of course, she's only 21, some 14 years younger than Miss Hayworth. The resemblance comes in that most marketable of Hollywood assets basic, earthy sexiness. Both have it but Kim will have it much longer. One Columbia topper, who pleads anonymity, believes Miss ' Novak will eventually take over for Rita. He explains why: Kim could not have come along at a better time. We know Rita Hayworth sells tickets and we know why, but first she has to be in a picture. She's made only three pictures since 1949 when she mar ried Aly Khan. And we haven't teen her since she married Dick Haymes last fall." May Go Abroad It's entirely possible that Holly wood may not tee her again. If the government can enforce its deportation order against Haymes, Rita may settle abroad with her husband. "Columbia believes," continues the studio executive, "mat one Kim Novak in a picture is worth a dozen Rita Hayworth in Ar gentina." The public will first see Kim as star, an unusual beginning for m young girl in this business. She plays a sexy moll in a detective drama filmed originally under the title "The Killer Wore a Badge." tarring Fred MacMurray. At the sneak preview, the Novak sex appeal registered so much that the title of the picture was changed to "Pushover" with the accent on Kim instead of Guns. Publicity Appearance But the studio knew her potential long before she ever got on film. Even before it was announced she was signed to a contract, she started eyes and flash bulbs pop ping in two publicity appearances in competition with established tars. She was known then as Marilyn Novak, her right name, but the studio asked her to drop the Mari lyn to avoid comparison wjth Mari lyn the Monroe. "I'm so happy they let me keep Novak," she says. "It sounds so earthy. I think the public is fed up with trumped up, theatrical Anglo-Saxon names." Kim was discovered for the movies while riding a bicycle hi Beverly Hills. She had come out here on a modeling job with a line of re frigerators. Her job was to dress in a scanty costume and answer prospective buyers' questions. Selling Point "I spent most of my time bend ing over and pulling out vegetable trays. My boss said that was the greatest selling point the refrig erator had. After the job ended, she stayed on for a vacation and that's how she happened to be riding a bi cycle in Beverly Hills. Agent Louis Shurr, noted for his good eye in picking blonde lovelies, spotted her. She was wearing shorts at the tune. He took her to Columbia for a screen test. ine test consisted or a mono logue from "The Devil Passes in which Kim, tells what she wants out of life. It's significant too that the Columbia bosses decreed that sh- make the test in the tight fitting long black silk dress that Miss Hayworth wore in "Affair in Trinidad." Unmarried, she lives with her pet dachshund and a Siamese cat she claims can unlock doors. Kim is s feet 6 and weighs 123 pounds, well distributed over one of the better figures in town. "She's got everything Rita has,' says one Columbia source, "ann what's more important, she's got B here." Automobiles RuledLegal HARTFORD. Conn, tm The Connecticut Supreme Court of Er rors has ruled, it's all right for automobiles to be on the road. In a case in which a farmer ' com plained that a truck frightened his horse, the court held: "Auto mobiles are constantly being driv en along streets past horses with out frightening them. Unless there is something unusual about the appearance of the automobile, it is not a wrongful act to operate it in proximity to a horse." Or T I Lam. H O Or O Chan. K4. DRS. 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