Eva Marie Saint

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Eva Marie Saint at the 1990 Emmy Awards

Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924 in Newark , New Jersey ) is an American actress . She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for The Fist in the Neck (1954) and played her best-known role in Hitchcock's The Invisible Third (1959).

Life

The daughter of John Merle Saint and his wife Eva Marie attended Bethlehem Central High School near New York, from which she graduated in 1942. She then studied acting at Bowling Green State University . Her career began in the mid-1940s with minor television roles, commercials, and radio appearances. In 1954 she received the Theater World Award for her appearance in The Trip To Bountiful . In the course of her film career, Saint mainly preferred ambiguous and enigmatic roles and only played in relatively selected film projects. In 1955, she received an Oscar for best supporting role for her first movie The Fist in the Neck by Elia Kazan . In it she played the lover of Marlon Brando , whose brother dies in an argument in the harbor district. In the years that followed, other successful films followed, including Fred Zinnemann's revolutionary drug drama Poisonous Snow (1957).

She played one of her best-known roles in 1959 as a mysterious blonde at the side of Cary Grant in the classic film The Invisible Third by Alfred Hitchcock . While filming, the director arranged for Saint - who was known for her long blonde hair - to trim her hair because it would better suit the characteristics of her character. The Invisible Third was a huge hit and groundbreaking for action films. On her 90th birthday, the FAZ wrote about Saints roles: “Eva Marie Saint knew exactly what she wanted. She got under the skin of men in her classic beauty, because she announced what was going to happen. They weren't used to that. Eva Marie Saint determined the event with irony and self-irony and in a lascivious command mood. "

She then took on major roles in Exodus (1960), the drama about the founding of Israel with Paul Newman , and as a tragic beauty in John Frankenheimer's My Brother, a Scoundrel (1962). In 1965 she played the wife of a pastor ( Richard Burton ) in ... Who Desires Everything , who is betrayed by her husband. A year later she played a magazine editor in the film Grand Prix , again directed by Frankenheimer .

When the quality of the film offer declined in the 1970s, Saint worked again increasingly for the theater. She received a total of five Emmy nominations for her television work before winning the Emmy in 1990 for the miniseries People Like Us . In 1986 she was the fragile mother of Tom Hanks in the tragic comedy Nothing in Common - They Have Nothing to See in Common . In 1990 she played the wife of the murdered Leon Klinghoffer ( Burt Lancaster ) in the television film The Abduction of Achille Lauro . Wim Wenders cast her in his 2005 film Don't Come Knocking , and in 2006 she appeared in Superman Returns as Martha Kent - the main character's adoptive mother. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . Since 2012, Saint has acted as a spokeswoman in the animated series The Legend of Korra . On March 4, 2018, the 93-year-old artist performed at the Academy Awards when she presented the award for best costume design .

Eva Marie Saint was married to director and producer Jeffrey Hayden (1926–2016) from 1951 until his death . She has two children from this marriage and three grandchildren. The theater on the Bowling Green State University campus is named after her.

Filmography

Eva Marie Saint (2009)

Web links

Commons : Eva Marie Saint  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Verena Lueken: With love from Hitchcock. In: FAZ.net . July 4, 2014, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Oscars: "Phantom Thread" wins Costume Design. April 17, 2018, accessed May 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Jeffrey Hayden: Director and Husband of Eva Marie Saint, Dies at 90
  4. ↑ Eva Marie Saint Biography
personal data
SURNAME Saint, Eva Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark (New Jersey)