Eva Marie Saint

At 99 years old, Eva Marie Saint has this physical status:

Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an American actress.

She is best known for her role in On the Waterfront (1954), which she received an award for Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959).

She was nominated for A Hatful of Rain (1957) by the Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award for the television miniseries People Like Us (1990).

Raintree County (1957), Exodus (1960), and Winter's Tale (2014) are among her film debuts.

Early life

Saint was born in Newark, New Jersey, on July 4, 1924, to Quaker parents. She attended Bethlehem Central High School in Delmar, New York, near Albany, graduating in 1942. In 2006, she was inducted into the high school's hall of fame. She studied at Bowling Green State University and joined Delta Gamma Sorority. During this period, she was the principal protagonist in a Personal Appearance film. After her, a theater on Bowling Green's campus was named. She was a founder of Theta Alpha Phi, a theater honorary fraternity, and served as the student council's record keeper in 1944.

Personal life

On October 28, 1951, Saint married producer and director Jeffrey Hayden. They had two children together: Darrell Hayden and daughter Laurette Hayden. Darrell, the family's first child, was born just two days after winning an Academy Award for On the Waterfront. Saint and Hayden have four children and were married for 65 years until Hayden's death on December 24, 2016, at the age of 90.

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Career

Saint's television debut began as an NBC site. In 1946-47, she appeared in the live NBC-TV show Campus Hoopla. Her appearances on this program are captured on rare kinescopes, and audio recordings of these telecasts are preserved in the Library of Congress. She appeared on Bonnie Maid's Versa-Tile Varieties on NBC in 1949 as one of the pioneering singing "Bonnie Maids" used in live televisions.

She appeared in a 1947 Life Magazine special about television, as well as a 1949 feature Life article about her as a struggling actress making minimum wage while attempting to make ends meet in New York City. Saint continued to make her living by doing extensive work in radio and television in the late 1940s. She received the Drama Critics Award in 1953 for her Broadway appearance in the Horton Foote play The Trip to Bountiful (1953), in which she co-starred with such strong actors as Lillian Gish and Jo Van Fleet.

In 1955, Saint was nominated for her first Emmy Award for her role as "Best Actress In A Single Performance" on The Philco Television Playhouse, portraying the teenage mistress of middle-aged E. G. Marshall in Paddy Chayefsky's Middle of the Night. She received another Emmy Award for her 1955 television musical version of Our Town, which was based on the Thornton Wilder play of the same name. Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra were co-stars on this film. "One marginally hyperbolic television analyst called her 'the Helen Hayes of television,'" despite her success and acclaim in television productions.

Saint made her film debut in On the Waterfront (1954), starring Marlon Brando and directed by Elia Kazan, a debut for whom she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Edie Doyle (whose brother's death sets the film's story in motion), won over Claire Trevor, Nina Foch, Katy Jurado, and Jan Sterling for her role as "Most Promising Newcomer" (British Academy of Film and Television Award nominee). "In casting Eva Marie Saint, a newcomer to films from TV and Broadway," film critic A. H. Weiler wrote in a New York Times article. Kazan has produced a charming and blond artisan who does not have to rely on these attributes. The parochial school she was attending has no way to love with the appropriate stranger. She gives tenderness and sensitivity to genuine love amid scenes of violence. The film was a huge success and launched Saint's film career. For the job, she was paid $7,500.

Saint recalled making the film, which has become incredibly popular, in a 2000 interview with Marlon Brando, who said, "Elia" Kazan put me in a room with Marlon Brando. 'Brando is the boyfriend of your sister,' he said. You aren't used to being around a young man. 'Under no circumstances, don't allow him in the door.' I'm not sure what he told Marlon, but you'll have to ask him—good luck! [Brando] came in and started teasing me. He's taken me off balance. "I was off balance for the entire shooting." In a 2010 interview, she repeated the anecdote.

She appeared in That Certain Feeling (1956), which earned her $50,000. Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift were given $100,000 to appear in the lavish Civil War epic Raintree County (1957) in which she was then offered $100,000. She appeared in A Hatful of Rain, the pioneering drug-addiction drama that was released later in 1957, but not before Raintree Country was launched in 1957. The British Academy of Film and Television recognized her nomination for her role in "Best Foreign Actress" category.

Director Alfred Hitchcock surprised many by choosing Saint over hundreds of other candidates for the femme fatale role in the 1959 mystery epic North by Northwest (1959) with Cary Grant and James Mason. The film was written by Ernest Lehman and focuses on the director's early "wrong man" spy adventures of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, including The 39 Steps, Young and Innocent, and Saboteur. North by Northwest became a box-office hit and a tradition of spy films for decades. The film ranks number 40 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time.

During a shopping trip to Bergdorf Goodman in New York City, Hitchcock worked for Saint to make her voice lower and huskier, and she personally selected costumes for her.

The change in Saint's screen persona, as well as her fine portrayal of a seductive woman of mystery who keeps Cary Grant (and the audience) off balance, was widely lauded. "Mr. H. Weiler's (Gary Grant's) romantic vis-a-vis in Eva Marie Saint's [Cary Grant's] romantic vis-a-vis, Mr. Hitchcock has unveiled some talents that were not seen by the actor heretofore." Despite being a tyrant, designing type, she makes her debuts as both the sweet heroine and a glamorous charmer."

Eva Marie, who was recalling her time with Cary Grant and Hitchcock in 2000, said, "You don't have to weep in a movie to have a good time." 'Just get up your heels and have fun.' "I don't want you to do a sink-to-sink film again,' Hitchcock said. On the Waterfront, you've made these black-and-white films. In this tenement house, it's drab. Women go to the movies, but they have just left the kitchen at home. They don't want to see you at the sink.' "I said, 'I can't promise you that, Hitch, because I love those dramas," she said in a 2010 interview.

Despite the fact that North by Northwest could have propelled her to the top of the charts, Saint decided not to film with her husband, Jeffrey Hayden, and their two children in order to spend time with her husband since 1951. Saint continued to distinguish herself in both high-profile and offbeat photographs in the 1960s. Exodus (1960), a historical drama about the establishment of the state of Israel, was co-written by Leon Uris and based on the novel of the same name. Otto Preminger produced it. Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, and Angela Lansbury appeared in the drama All Fall Down (1962). The film was based on a James Leo Herlihy novel and a William Inge screenplay.

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton appeared in The Sandpiper for Vincente Minnelli and with James Garner in the World War II thriller 36 Hours (1965), directed by George Seaton. Saint performed in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, directed by Norman Jewison, and the international racing drama, Grand Prix (1966) directed by Frankenheimer and premiered in Cinerama.

Saint received some of her best praise for her role in Loving (1970), co-starring George Segal as the wife of George Segal. The film was about a commercial artist's relationship with his wife and other women; it was critically acclaimed but not widely distributed.

Saint returned to television and the stage in the 1980s due to mainly second-rate film roles that came her way in the 1970s. She received an Emmy nomination for the 1977 miniseries How The West Was Won, as well as a 1978 Emmy nomination for Taxi!!! As he investigated the murder of his daughter and granddaughters, she was reunited with On the Waterfront co-star Karl Malden, this time as the wife of his character. In the television series Moonlighting, she played Cybill Shepherd, a part of three years.

Saint appeared on film for the first time in more than a decade in Nothing in Common (1986), in which she played Tom Hanks' mother; Garry Marshall produced it. Critics applauded her return to televisions.

Saint was right back on the small screen in a number of projects. She earned her first Emmy Award for the 1990 miniseries People Like Us after receiving five nominations. In a 1999 episode of the comedy series Frasier, she appeared in a number of television productions in the 1990s and was portraying as the mother of radio producer Roz Doyle.

In 2000, Saint returned to feature films in I Dreamed of Africa with Kim Basinger. In 2005, she co-starred with Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard in Don't Come Knocking. She appeared in the family film Because of Winn-Dixie also in 2005, co-starring AnnaSophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, and Cicely Tyson.

Martha Kent, the adoptive mother of Superman, appeared in Superman Returns as Martha Kent, alongside Brandon Routh and Marlon Brando's On the Waterfront co-star Marlon Brando.

In 2007, she was named one of the Golden Boot Awards for her contributions to western cinema.

Saint has lent her voice to the 2012 Nickelodeon animated film The Legend of Korra, a sequel to the hit TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender, starring Katara, the main character from the original series.

In September 2012, she appeared as Willa's adult version in Mark Helprin's film version of the Winter's Tale. On Valentine's Day 2014, the film was released.

Saint appeared at the 2018 Academy Award ceremonies to present the Award for Costume Design at the age of 93. On entering the stage, she received a standing ovation.

Saint appeared alongside Marisa Tomei in the podcast play series "The Pack Podcast" in 2021 as part of the segment "The Bus Ride."

She has two actors on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 6624 Hollywood Boulevard and one for television at 6730 Hollywood Boulevard.

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