Eva Marie Saint

Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She played blonde, graceful leading ladies in many films, starting in the 1950s.

Biography

Early life

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, and did some work in radio and television before winning the Drama Critics Award for her stage role in A Trip to Bountiful (1953).

Career

Saint's 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.

In 2006 Saint once again became a household name by playing Martha Kent, the adoptive mother of Superman, in Superman Returns.

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.

Filmography

On the Waterfront (1954)
That Certain Feeling (1956)
Operation Raintree (1957) (short subject)
A Hatful of Rain (1957)
Raintree County (1957)
North by Northwest (1959)
Exodus (1960)
All Fall Down (1962)
36 Hours (1965)
The Sandpiper (1965)
Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions (1966) (short subject)
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966)
Grand Prix (1966)
The Stalking Moon (1969)
Loving (1970)
Cancel My Reservation (1972)
Nothing in Common (1986)
Mariette in Ecstasy (1996)
Time to Say Goodbye? (1997)
I Dreamed of Africa (2000)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) (documentary)
Going Through Splat: The Life and Work of Stewart Stern (2005) (documentary)
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
Don't Come Knocking (2005)
Superman Returns (2006)

Television work

Campus Hoopla (1946-1947)
A Christmas Carol (1947)
Versatile Varieties (cast member from 1950-1951)
One Man's Family (cast member from 1950-1952)
The Trip to Bountiful (1953)
Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
The Macahans (1976)
The Fatal Weakness (1976)
How the West Was Won (1977) (miniseries)
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