Kim Novak's Dual Role and the Film's Complex Portrayal of Women in Vertigo
In Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller "Vertigo" (1958), Kim Novak delivers one of the most nuanced performances in cinema history, embodying not one but two distinct characters that ultimately reveal themselves as different facets of the same woman. As both the elegant, mysterious Madeleine Elster and the earthy, vulnerable Judy Barton, Novak cre…
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