Summary Star of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is to make a return to the red carpet at Cannes film festival.
PARIS (AFP) - Kim Novak, the star of Alfred Hitchcock s 1958 masterpiece "Vertigo" who turned her back on Hollywood, is to make a return to the red carpet at next month s Cannes film festival, organisers said on Monday.
The US actress, 80, refused to accept the ironfisted rule of America s big studios and in 1965 largely abandoned film to devote herself to painting.
She will be guest of honour at a special screening to mark the restoration of the film regarded as Hitchcock s finest work.
Hitchcock once described the "Vertigo" as "a love story with a strange atmosphere".
Novak will also take part in the closing ceremony of the May 15-26 French Riviera festival where she will award one of the prizes.
Novak s other memorable cinema roles included a prostitute with a big heart in "Kiss Me, Stupid" by Billy Wilder, a witch in Richard Quine s "Bell, Book and Candle" and an adulteress in another Quine film, "Strangers When We Meet".
