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);

Kim Novak, the glamorous and fiercely independent star of one of the greatest films ever made, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,” will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival this fall.

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.