TRIVIA TIME

When Kim Novak and her agent, Sue Cameron, concocted “Kit Marlowe” as the name of Novak’s new “Falcon Crest” femme fatale , they created an inside joke: Kit Marlowe was the alias that Columbia Pictures mogul Harry Cohn tried to force on Novak in 1953 when she was a studio starlet.

She fought for her family’s surname, Novak--Marilyn was her real first name, and already well taken by Monroe--and came up with Kim as a compromise to Kit, which Cohn thought was “cute--like a kitten.”