This blonde beauty broke into films in 1954 and went on to display some talent when given the opportunity. Kim Novak had just embarked on a modeling career when she landed a walk-on in RKO's "The French Line" (1954) and was snapped up by Columbia talent director Max Arnow for a long-term contract. While studio head Harry Cohn attempted to fashion her into a clone of Marilyn Monroe, she proved to be more of a coolly elegant Grace Kelly type. Her first major roles, as a gun moll who seduces Fred MacMurray in "Pushover" and as Jack Lemmon's problematic girlfriend "Phffft!" (both 1954) didn't