ACtor Sydney Sweeney arrived at the Gala Met 2025 Monday evening in a brilliant black dress Miu that pays tribute to Vertigo Star Kim Novak.
Sweeney's dress recalls a memorable dress with a similar circular neckline and spindle that Novak wore in Robert Aldrich's film in 1967 Lylah Clare's legend. At the time, Novak laughed on the scintillating dress and spindle that Joan Crawford had worn The bride wore red (1937).
Sweeney teased what was going to happen by publishing this photo of Novak in his Instagram stories. She should play Novak in the drama to come ScandalousThe beginnings of director of the co-president of the Met Gala Colman Domingo about the Jim Crow-El'Apair affair between Novak and singer Sammy Davis Jr. in the 1950s.
The Met Gala of this year celebrates the opening of the costume exhibition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2025 on black dandyism, and Essence calls Davis “The incarnation of black dandyism”.
Davis and Novak met The Steve Allen Showwhere they appeared as guests. He was so struck that he presented himself to the whole of Vertigo And offered to take photos. According to the recent book Hitchcock blondesWhile Davis drew close-ups, Novak asked: “” Have you ever thought of removing the coverage from the lens? “”
As time has reported, Harry Cohn, the chief of Columbia Pictures, “broke the romance of Sammy Davis Jr. and Kim Novak by threatening the thug to work in Sammy.” Cohn was terrified that theaters did not show a film with a white actress dating from a black man.
Davis ended up marrying a choirman's girl Loray White In 1958, and Novak married actor Richard Johnson in 1965.
