Eva Marie Saint - Biography

Last Editor: tinamccluskey				Eva Marie Saint Biography -   Name : Eva Marie Saint Profession : Actress Birth Details : born July 4, 1924 Height : 5' 4" (1.63 m) Nickname : The Helen Hayes of Television Personal quotes : On Alfred Hitchcock: "Hitchcock said, 'I don't want you going back to sink-to-sink movies. You do movies where you wash the dishes looking drab in Spouse : Jeffrey Hayden (28 October 1951 - present) 2 children

Eva Marie Saint Trivia -

Has campaigned to ban the usage of cell phones by motorists. Has 3 grandchildren. Lives in Santa Monica, California. Mother of Laurette Hayden Performed in a musical version of "Our Town" as Emily in a 1955 TV production opposite Paul Newman (his only singing role) as George and Frank Sinatra as the Stage Manager. Her first child, Darrell, was born in spring, 1955. Although the part of Edie Doyle properly is a lead, producer Sam Spiegel listed Eva Marie Saint as a Supporting Actress in the hopes of getting her a nomination. The ploy worked, and she won the Oscar. Won the part of Edie Doyle in On the Waterfront (1954) over Elizabeth Montgomery. Director Elia Kazan, in his autobiography "A Life," says that the choice of an actress to play the part was narrowed down to Elizabeth Montgomery and Saint. Although Montgomery was fine in her screen test, there was an air of finishing school about her. Kazan thought this genteel quality would not be becoming for Edie, who was raised on the waterfront in Hoboken, NJ. He gave the part to Saint, and she went on to win cinematic immortality, and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, in the part. In 1974, the Eva Marie Saint Theater was dedicated on the campus Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Saint is a 1946 graduate of BGSU.

Eva Marie Saint Detailed Biography -

Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an Oscar-winning American actress. She played blonde, graceful leading ladies in many films, starting in the 1950s. Saint was born in Newark, New Jersey, USA. She studied acting at Bowling Green State University, and did some work in radio and television before winning the Drama Critics Award for her stage role in A Trip to Bountiful (1953). Her first film role was in On the Waterfront (1954) with Marlon Brando, for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Her best known films were in the early years of her career: A Hatful of Rain (1957) with Don Murray, Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959) with Cary Grant, and Exodus (1960) with Paul Newman. Because of the second-rate film roles that came her way in the 1970s, Saint returned to television and the stage in the 1980s. She has appeared in a number of made-for-TV movies, and won an Emmy in 1990 for the mini-series People Like Us. Saint will play Martha Kent, the adoptive mother of Superman, in Superman Returns (2006). Marie Saint has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 6624 Hollywood Blvd., and one for television at 6730 Hollywood Blvd.