Eva Marie Saint, Actress, - Biography
Actress,
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Born July 4, 1924, Newark, New Jersey, USA,
Other name(s)
Eve Marie Saint
Spouse(s) Jeffrey Hayden 1951-present
Notable roles Eve
Kendall
North by Northwest
Height, 5 foot 4 ( 1.63 m
)
Eva Marie Saint is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She
has starred on Broadway, in films & on television beginning in the 1950s.
Saint
was born in Newark, New Jersey but attended Bethlehem Central High School in Delmar,
NY, graduating in 1942. Eva was inducted into the high school's hall of fame in
2006. She studied acting at Bowling Green State University, while a member of
Delta Gamma Sorority. There is also a theatre on Bowling Green campus named after
her.
Early television career
In the late '40s, she began doing extensive
work in radio & television before winning the Drama Critics Award for her
Broadway stage role in the Horton Foote play The Trip to Bountiful (1953), in
which she co-starred with such formidable actors as Lillian Gish & Jo Van
Fleet. In 1955, she was nominated for her first Emmy for "Best Actress In
A Single Performance" on The Philco Television Playhouse for the playing
the young mistress of middle-aged E. G. Marshall in Middle of the Night by Paddy
Chayevsky. She won another Emmy nomination for the 1955 television musical version
of the Thornton Wilder classic play Our Town with co-stars Paul Newman (in his
only musical role) & Frank Sinatra. Her success & acclaim were of such
a high level that the young Saint earned the nickname "the Helen Hayes of
television."
Film debut
Saint's first feature motion picture role
was in On the Waterfront (1954), directed by Elia Kazan & starring Marlon
Brando — a smart, sympathetic, & emotionally-charged role for which she
won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Her performance in the role, which she
won over such leading contenders as Grace Kelly, Janice Rule, & Elizabeth
Montgomery, also earned her a British Academy of Film & Television Award for
"Most Promising Newcomer." In his New York Times review, film critic
Bosley Crowther wrote:
"In casting Eva Marie Saint — a newcomer to movies from TV & Broadway — Mr. Kazan has come up with a pretty & blond artisan who does not have to depend on these attributes. Her parochial school training is no bar to love with the proper stranger. Amid scenes of carnage, she gives tenderness & sensitivity to genuine romance."
In a 2000 interview in Premiere magazine, Saint recalled making the hugely influential film:
“ [Elia] Kazan put me in a room with Marlon Brando. He said, 'Brando is the boyfriend of your sister. You're a Catholic girl & not used to being with a young man. Don't let him in the door under any circumstances.' I don't know what he told Marlon; you'll have to ask him — good luck! [Brando] came in & started teasing me. He put me off-balance. & I remained off-balance for the whole shoot. ”
The watershed success of the film launched Saint into many of the best known films of her early screen career. They include starring with Don Murray in the powerful & pioneering drug-addiction drama, A Hatful of Rain (1957), for which she won the "Best Foreign Actress" from the British Academy of Film & Television, & the lavish Civil War epic Raintree County, opposite Elizabeth Taylor & Montgomery Clift.
Hitchcock blonde
Legendary
director Alfred Hitchcock surprised many by choosing the stately & serious
Saint over dozens of other candidates for the femme fatale role in what was to
become a suspense classic North by Northwest (1959) with Cary Grant & James
Mason. Written by Ernest Lehman, the brilliant & immensely entertaining film
updated & expanded upon the director's early "wrong man" spy adventures
of the '30s, '40s, & '50s, including The 39 Steps, Young & Innocent, Foreign
Correspondent, Rear Window & Vertigo. North by Northwest not only became a
massive box-office hit but also a major influence on other spy films for decades.
The film ranks number forty on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest
American Movies of All Time.
At the time of the film's production, much publicity was garnered by Hitchcock's decision to cut Saint's waist-length blonde hair for the very first time in her career. Hitchcock explained at the time, "Short hair gives Eva a more exotic look, in keeping with her role of the glamorous woman of my story. I wanted her dressed like a kept woman – smart, simple, subtle & quiet. In other words, anything but the bangles & beads type." The director also worked with Saint to make her voice lower & huskier & even personally chose costumes for her during a shopping trip to Bergdorf Goodman in New York City. The change in Saint's screen persona, coupled with her adroit performance as a seductive woman of mystery who keeps Cary Grant (and the audience) off-balance, was widely heralded. In his New York Times review of August 7, 1959. critic Bosley Crowther wrote, "In casting Eva Marie Saint as [Cary Grant's] romantic vis-a-vis, Mr. Hitchcock has plumbed some talents not shown by the actress heretofore. Although she is seemingly a hard, designing type, she also emerges both the sweet heroine & a glamorous charmer." In 2000, recalling her experience making the picture with Cary Grant & Hitchcock, Saint said, "[Grant] would say, "See, Eva Marie, you don't have to cry in a movie to have a good time. Just kick up your heels & have fun." Hitchcock said, "I don't want you to do a sink-to-sink movie again, ever. You've done these black-and-white movies like On the Waterfront. It's drab in that tenement house. Women go to the movies, & they've just left the sink 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."
Mid-career
Although North by Northwest might have
propelled her to the very top ranks of stardom, she elected to limit her film
work in order to spend time with her husband since 1951, director Jeffrey Hayden,
& their two children. Nevertheless, in the 1960s, Saint continued to distinguish
herself in both high-profile & more offbeat motion pictures, including co-starring
again with Paul Newman in the historical drama about the founding of the state
of Israel Exodus (1960), directed by Otto Preminger. She also co-starred with
Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, & Angela Lansbury as a tragic beauty in the 1962
drama All Fall Down. Based upon a novel by James Leo Herlihy & a screenplay
by William Inge, the film was directed by John Frankenheimer. She was also seen
with Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton in the highly-publicized melodrama
The Sandpiper for Vincente Minnelli, & with James Garner in a top-notch but
little-seen thriller 36 Hours, directed by George Seaton. She was among the all-star
casts in the comedic satire The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming,
directed by Norman Jewison & the international racing drama Grand Prix presented
in Cinerama & directed by John Frankenheimer. Although she was announced as
the leading lady opposite Steve McQueen in director Norman Jewison's ultra-stylish
romantic caper film The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), the meteoric rise of newcomer
Faye Dunaway, who was cast instead, cost Saint a rare glamorous & sexy role.
In 1970, she received some of the best reviews of her film career for Loving, in which she co-starred as the wife of George Segal in a critically-acclaimed but underseen film drama about a commercial artist's relationship with his wife & the other women in his life. Because of the mostly second-rate film roles that came her way in the 1970s, Saint returned to television & the stage in the 1980s. She has appeared in a number of made-for-TV movies, played the mother of Cybill Shepherd on the hit television series Moonlighting, winning an Emmy nomination for the 1977 miniseries How The West Was Won, a 1978 Emmy nomination for Taxi & an Emmy in 1990 for the mini-series People Like Us.
Later career
In
2000, she co-starred with Kim Basinger in the motion picture I Dreamed of Africa,
with Jessica Lange for director Wim Wenders in Don't Come Knocking (2005) written
by Sam Shepard, & in the heart-tugging family film Because of Winn-Dixie.
In 2006, Saint once again became a household name by playing Martha Kent, the
adoptive mother of Superman, in Superman Returns.
She has two stars on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 6624 Hollywood Blvd., &
one for television at 6730 Hollywood Blvd.
Written in May 2007
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