Eva Marie Saint

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July 4, 1924

Jeffrey Hayden (since 1951; 2 children)

Actress

2006 Superman Returns

2005 Don't Come Knocking

2005 Because of Winn-Dixie

2003 Open House (TV movie)

2000 Papa's Angels (TV movie)

2000 I Dreamed of Africa

1999 Frasier (TV series)

1997 Time to Say Goodbye?

1996 Titanic (TV movie)

1996 After Jimmy (TV movie)

1996 Mariette in Ecstasy

1995 My Antonia (TV movie)

1993 Kiss of a Killer (TV movie)

1991 Palomino (TV movie)

1990 People Like Us (TV movie)

1990 Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (TV movie)

1988 I'll Be Home for Christmas (TV movie)

1986-1988 Moonlighting (TV series)

1987 Breaking Home Ties (TV movie)

1986 A Year in the Life (TV mini-series)

1986 The Last Days of Patton (TV movie)

1986 Nothing in Common

1984 Fatal Vision (TV movie)

1984 Love Leads the Way: A True Story (TV movie)

1983-1984 The Love Boat (TV series)

1983 Jane Doe (TV movie)

1983 Malibu (TV movie)

1981 Splendor in the Grass (TV movie)

1981 The Best Little Girl in the World (TV movie)

1980 The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (TV movie)

1979 When Hell Was in Session (TV movie)

1978 A Christmas to Remember (TV movie)

1978 Taxi!!! (TV movie)

1977 How the West Was Won (TV mini-series)

1976 The Fatal Weakness (TV movie)

1976 The Macahans (TV movie)

1974 The First Woman President (TV movie)

1972 Cancel My Reservation

1970 Loving

1968 The Stalking Moon

1966 Grand Prix

1966 The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

1965 The Sandpiper

1965 36 Hours

1964 Carol for Another Christmas (TV movie)

1964 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV series)

1962 All Fall Down

1960 Exodus

1959 North by Northwest

1957 Raintree County

1957 A Hatful of Rain

1956 That Certain Feeling

1955 Producers' Showcase (TV series)

1954 General Electric Theater (TV series) – The Rider on the Pale Horse (1954)

1954 Omnibus (TV series) (segment "A Clean, Fresh Breeze")

1953-1954 The Philco Television Playhouse (TV series)

1954 On the Waterfront

1953-1954 Goodyear Television Playhouse (TV series)

1954 Kraft Television Theatre (TV series)

1953 The Revlon Mirror Theater (TV series)

1949-1953 Studio One (TV series)

1953 Martin Kane, Private Eye (TV series)

1953 Eye Witness (TV series)

1953 The Web (TV series)

1953 ABC Album (TV series)

1953 The Trip to Bountiful (TV movie)

1950-1951 Versatile Varieties (TV series)

1949 One Man's Family (TV series)

1950 The Prudential Family Playhouse (TV series)

1949-1950 Actor's Studio (TV series)

1949 Suspense (TV series)

1949 Lights Out (TV series)

1949 The Clock (TV series)

1947 A Christmas Carol (TV movie)

Producer

1991 Primary Colors: The Story of Corita (TV documentary) (executive producer)

Appearances

2011 Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (documentary)

2011 Hollywood Renegade (documentary) (post-production)

2009 The 81st Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

2008 12th Annual Prism Awards (TV special)

2008 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Warren Beatty (TV movie)

2007 Fred Zinnemann - Der Mann, der 'High Noon' machte (TV movie)

2006 Requiem for Krypton: Making 'Superman Returns' (video documentary)

2006 Pushing the Limit: The Making of 'Grand Prix' (video documentary short)

2006 Tavis Smiley (TV series)

2006 HypaSpace (TV series documentary)

2000-2006 HBO First Look (TV series documentary)

2006 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies (TV documentary)

2006 The Hollywood Greats (TV series documentary)

2006 Jenseits von Hollywood - Das Kino des Otto Preminger (TV documentary)

2005 Going Through Splat: The Life and Work of Stewart Stern (documentary)

2004 Dateline NBC (TV series documentary)

2004 Larry King Live (TV series) (voice)

2004 Cary Grant: A Class Apart (TV documentary)

2004 Hollywood Legenden (TV documentary)

2003 Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (documentary)

2003 The 75th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

2001 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (TV special documentary)

2000 Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest' (video documentary short)

1999 E! True Hollywood Story (TV series documentary)

1999 Jackie's Back! (TV movie)

1998 The 70th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1995 Biography (TV series documentary)

1993 Legend to Legend Night: A Celebrity Cavalcade (TV special)

1991 Primary Colors: The Story of Corita (TV documentary) Narrator/Host

1990 The 42nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (TV special)

1988 Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (TV documentary)

1987 Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (TV special documentary)

1986 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV series)

1966-1984 Today (TV series)

1984 The American Film Institute Salute to Lillian Gish (TV special documentary)

1983 The 35th Annual Emmy Awards (TV special)

1982 The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV special)

1980 Looks Familiar (TV series)

1978 The 30th Annual Emmy Awards (TV special)

1978 The 50th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1971 The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1970 The David Frost Show (TV series)

1968 The 40th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1958-1966 What's My Line? (TV series)

1966 Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions (documentary short) (uncredited)

1963 The 35th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1961 The 33rd Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1959 The 31st Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1958 The 30th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1957 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)

1957 The 29th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1957 Operation Raintree (documentary short) (uncredited)

1956 The 28th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1955 The 27th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1955 The Red Skelton Show (TV series)

1954 Person to Person (TV series documentary)

1946 Campus Hoopla (TV series)

Academy Awards

1955 Won Oscar Best Actress in a Supporting Role
for: On the Waterfront (1954).

BAFTA Awards

1958 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Foreign Actress for: A Hatful of Rain (1957).

1955 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Most Promising Newcomer to Film for: On the Waterfront (1954).

Emmy Awards

1990 Won Emmy Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special for: People Like Us (1990) (TV).

1978 Nominated Emmy Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama or Comedy Special for: Taxi!!! (1978) (TV).

1977 Nominated Emmy Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series for: "How the West Was Won" (1977).

1956 Nominated Emmy Best Actress - Single Performance for: "Producers' Showcase" (1954). For playing "Emily". For episode "Our Town".

1955 Nominated Emmy Best Actress in a Single Performance for: "The Philco Television Playhouse" (1948). For episode "Middle of the Night".

Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival

1999 Won Lifetime Achievement Award

Golden Boot Awards

2007 Won Golden Boot

Golden Globes

1958 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama for: A Hatful of Rain (1957).

Laurel Awards

1958 3rd place Golden Laurel Top Female Dramatic Performance for: A Hatful of Rain (1957).

San Luis Obispo International Film Festival

2004 Won King Vidor Memorial Award

Savannah Film and Video Festival

2000 Won Lifetime Achievement Award

Walk of Fame

1960 Star on the Walk of Fame Motion Picture
On 8 February 1960. At 6624 Hollywood Blvd.
Television On 8 February 1960. At 6730 Hollywood Blvd.

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After graduating from high school, Eva Marie Saint moved west to study acting at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. In the 1940s she started out doing work in radio and TV before winning the Drama Critics Award for her Broadway stage role in The Top to Bountiful (1953). The next few years also saw her win two Emmy nominations for TV work, earning her the sobriquet "The Helen Hayes of Television." She then won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar (for playing a lead female role) in her screen debut, On the Waterfront (1954). A rare, beautiful character actress, Saint - as with many female Academy Award winners - had trouble finding worthy follow-ups to her breakthrough, and got stuck looking pretty next to Bob Hope in That Certain Feeling (1956), or frozen with the rest of the cast in Raintree County (1957) and Exodus (1960).

Saint is good in her Waterfront mode, as the addict's wife in A Hatful of Rain (1957), and superb as a Hitchcockian blonde, ensnaring Cary Grant on a train in North by Northwest (1959). At Alfred Hitchcock's insistence, Saint's waist-length hair was cut short for the role. Though drawn and lovely as Warren Beatty's object of desire in All Fall Down (1962), she spent most of the 1960s as a sidelined love interest in movies such as Grand Prix (1966), or overshadowed support, as in The Sandpiper (1965). She played a tough frontier woman in a good Western, The Stalking Moon (1968), and was terrific as George Segal's wife in Loving (1970), but found herself back with Bob Hope in Cancel My Reservation (1972). As an older actress finding less interesting film roles, she has returned mostly to the stage and TV. She played a mother in Wim Wenders's Don't Come Knocking (2005) and adoptive mother Martha Kent in Superman Returns (2006).

"I thought North by Northwest was as sexy as you can get and we had all our clothes on."