Married. Kim Novak, 43, sultry cinemactress (Bell, Book and Candle, Picnic); and Veterinarian Robert Malloy, 36, who began taking care of her horses last year; both for the second time; in a mountaintop pine grove near her home in Big Sur, Calif.

Died. Count Luchino Visconti, 69, Italian aristocrat who became a movie director at the age of 30 and made an international reputation with a handful of meticulously wrought and highly atmospheric films; of a heart attack while suffering from influenza; in Rome. An early neorealist, along with Vittorio de Sica and Michelangelo Antonioni, Visconti used Sicilian villagers instead of actors in La Terra Trema (1947), the drama of a poor fisherman's family. In Rocco and His Brothers (1960), he described the brutalizing of a farm family moving north to Milan. Visconti's later works tended toward operatic melodrama (The Damned) or slick, vacant, surface beauty (Death in Venice). Conversation Piece, badly received at the New York Film Festival last fall, told the seemingly autobiographical tale of an elderly man of taste and learning trying to embrace the wasted lives of the barbaric sybarites around him.

Died. Jo Mielziner, 74, versatile Broadway set designer (Death of a Salesman, South Pacific, The King and I, Gypsy); of a stroke; in Manhattan. The son of a portraitist, Mielziner studied painting as a youth, then went onstage to get the actor's point of view. He prepared hundreds of sketches until he achieved the design and the lighting that would "make people grasp a situation as quickly as possible." A five-time Tony Award winner and a one-time Academy Award winner (color art direction for the movie Picnic), he always aimed, as a set designer, to be the director's "extra eye."

Died. Busby Berkeley, 80, choreographer of kaleidoscopic, extravagant movie musicals of the 1930s and 1940s (the Gold Diggers series, 42nd Street); of heart disease; in Palm Springs, Calif. Drillmaster Berkeley's average cast of 100 chorines rode decoratively in Ferris wheels, bowed neon-lighted violins while they whirled in triple-hooped skirts, played acres of white pianos for 100 top-hatted swains. Footlight Parade featured the precision swimming and diving of 150 movie mermaids, filmed from a plate-glass corridor underneath the mammoth pool, all of which cost $10,000 per screen minute. The nostalgia wave of the early '70s brought Berkeley back to Broadway to supervise the production of No, No, Nanette with an intimate chorus of only 34, led by early Berkeley Protegee Ruby Keeler.

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