Toured the USA as 'Miss Deep Freeze' to help promote Thor refrigerators

Made first film appearance, a bit part in the Jane Russell vehicle "The French Line"

Signed with Columbia Pictures, played first leading roles in "Pushover" and "Phfft!"

Made TV debut on "Light's Diamond Jubilee" (a four-network celebration of the light bulb)

Acted in "Picnic" and "The Man With the Golden Arm"

Made the motion pictures exhibitors' poll of top ten box-office stars; placed ninth

Acted in "Vertigo", directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Made news headlines when she was discussed by Congress because of her involvement with the son of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo

Returned to films after a three-year absence to star in Robert Aldrich's "The Legend of Lylah Clare"

TV-movie debut, "The Third Girl from the Left" (ABC)

Co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson in "The Mirror Crack'd"

Appeared for a season on the CBS primetime soap opera "Falcon Crest" in the role of mystery woman Kit Marlowe

Last feature to date "Liebestraum"

Retired from acting to raise horses and llamas

"Vertigo" was restored and re-released

Novak was the subject of a retrospective held at the Film Forum in NYC