Original title: Kim Novak’s Longtime Confidante Reveals Surprising Reason ’Vertigo’ Star Fled Hollywood: Sour Pickles
Much has been made over the years about why Vertigo icon Kim Novak did what many seemed unthinkable when she fled Hollywood and said goodbye to an enviable and still thriving acting career that saw her collaborate with everyone from Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart to Billy Wilder and Frank Sinatra. But her longtime manager and confidante, 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 Alexandre O. Philippe’s new documentary Kim Novak’s Vertigo. Cameron claimed it all came down to … sour pickles? By the time she started shooting Richard Quine’s 1965 film The Notorious Landlady opposite Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire, Novak had made up her mind that she hated Hollywood and was ready to leave, Cameron said. So when she and her sister went for a drive near picturesque Carmel, Calif., not far from where they were shooting the film, the siblings happened upon a gorgeou