ROME (Reuters) -Kim Novak, a Hollywood diva from the 1950s and 1960s who starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”, will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Venice Film Festival, organisers said on Monday.

Best known for her starring role in the 1958 psychological thriller, Novak also held notable roles in classics such as “Kiss Me, Stupid” by Billy Wilder, as well as “Picnic” and “The Man with the Golden Arm”.

The 92-year-old actor will be given the so-called Golden Lion for “inadvertently becoming a screen legend”, the festival’s Artistic Director Alberto Barbera said in a statement.

“Kim Novak was one of the most beloved icons of an entire era of Hollywood films, from her auspicious debut during the mid-1950s until her premature and voluntary exile from the gil

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