The Venice Film Festival will honor legendary “Vertigo” star Kim Novak with a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

Novak, 92, became the world’s top box office draw during the late ‘50s and early ‘60s thanks to films now considered classics such as Joshua Logan’s “Picnic” (1955); Otto Preminger’s “The Man with the Golden Arm” (1955); George Sidney’s Pal Joey (1957); and, of course, Alfred Hitchock’s “Vertigo” (1958) in which she plays dual characters in the role of her lifetime.

But Novak is also known as “a star who was emancipated; a rebel at the heart of Hollywood who illuminated the dreams of movie lovers before retiring to her ranch in Oregon to dedicate herself to painting and to her horses,” as a Venice fest statement put it.

As part of the tribute, Venice will world premier

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