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Kim Novak

posted 11 years ago by AndersonWhitbeck
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Kim Novak wanted the female lead in this film and Producer Eddie Fisher agreed to it and I believe it was announced in the Press. Paramount Production Chief Robert Evans did not agree to Kim's casting and instead went with lovely Jean Seberg who was beauiful but had not the star box office power of a Kim Novak. Josh Logan who directed Paint Your Wagon directed Kim Novak to super stardom in Picnic at Columbia. I wish Kim Novak not Jean Seberg would have been the star of Paint Your Wagon.

[–] markedjuan 11 years ago

Somebody's playing agent to Kim Novak again. Alan Jay Lerner is the credited producer of Paint Your Wagon and Kim Novak was no longer a box office star in 1968. Seberg was alright in the movie; Ross Hunter even hired her for Airport and she was billed after Dean Martin and Burt Lancaster.

[–] AndersonWhitbeck 11 years ago

Kim Novak would have been an equal star to Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood, as try as they did Jean Seberg did not ever click with US Audiences. Jean's biggest flop was Universal's Moment to Moment.

[–] markedjuan 11 years ago

Kim Novak at that point looked more like a madame at a bordello. She was in her late 30s and she hadn't had a hit in years.

Oh yes, Kim Novak was a star! And a star is a star is a star! But she had lost her box office clout by 1968.

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[–] markedjuan 11 years ago

Thanks for the clarification, mciccone-ritchie. And for clarifying the facts to the OP, who insists on playing agent to Kim Novak and Susan Hayward.

[–] smeth 11 years ago

"did not have the right face or build to play Elizabeth"

Please explain.