An actress who starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo has made her first public appearance in over a decade.

In 1958 Kim Novak rose to fame playing Judy Barton / Madeleine Elster in the legendary director’s psychological thriller, which was based on the 1954 novel D’entre les morts (From Among the Dead) by Boileau-Narcejac.

It starred James Stewart as a former San Francisco police detective who retired after an incident caused him to develop an extreme fear of heights, accompanied by vertigo.

He is then hired as a private investigator to look into the strange behaviour of an acquaintance’s wife – played by Kim.

Although Vertigo received mixed reviews when it was released, it’s now seen as Hitchcock’s greatest work and one of the best films of all time.

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