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Eva Marie Saint

{{Short description|American actress (born 1924)}}

{{Use American English|date=July 2020}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Eva Marie Saint

| image = Eva Marie Saint Promo Portrait, c. 1951.jpg

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| caption = Saint in an early 1950s studio portrait

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1924|7|4}}

| birth_place = Newark, New Jersey, U.S.

| death_date =

| death_place =

| years_active = 1944–2022

| alma_mater = Bowling Green State University

| occupation = Actress

| spouse = {{marriage|Jeffrey Hayden|October 28, 1951|December 24, 2016|reason=died}}

| children = 2

| relatives =

}}

Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an American retired actress. In a career that spanned nearly 80 years, she won an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, alongside nominations for a Golden Globe Award and two British Academy Film Awards. Saint is the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award winner, and one of the last living stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Saint attended Bowling Green State University and began her career as a television and radio actress in the late 1940s. She played the role of Thelma in Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful (1953). She made her film debut in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954), opposite Marlon Brando. The film won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress along with a BAFTA nomination for Most Promising Newcomer.

From then on, Saint appeared in a variety of roles, including Raintree County (1957), opposite Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor; and Fred Zinnemann's A Hatful of Rain (1957), opposite Don Murray and Anthony Franciosa, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama; and Eve Kendall in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959), opposite Cary Grant. In the 1960s, Saint appeared in Exodus (1960), alongside Paul Newman; The Sandpiper (1965), which reunited her with Elizabeth Taylor and featured Richard Burton; 36 Hours (1965) with James Garner;The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966), alongside Carl Reiner and Alan Arkin; and John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix (1966), opposite Yves Montand and in her second film with James Garner. Beginning in the 1970s, her film career began to decline and she returned to television in the following decades and into the 2010s, with a few film roles throughout.

Early life

File:Eva Marie Saint in her cheerleader uniform in Bethlehem Central High School, 1942.jpg

Saint was born on July 4, 1924,{{cite news |url=https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/eva-marie-saint/index.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |title=Eva Marie Saint |access-date=July 11, 2024}} in Newark, New Jersey, to Quaker parents.{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-05-13-9002090494-story.html |title=Eva Marie Saint Finds TV Full of Contradictions |last=Shindler |first=Merrill |date=May 13, 1990 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |language=en-US |access-date=December 28, 2019}} Her father was John Merle Saint and her mother was Eva Marie (née Rice) Saint. She attended Bethlehem Central High School in Delmar, New York, near Albany, graduating in 1942. She was inducted into the high school's hall of fame in 2006. She studied acting at Bowling Green State University and joined Delta Gamma sorority. During this time she played the lead role in a production of Personal Appearance.{{cite journal |title=The Key 1944 |url=https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/yearbooks/18/ |journal=BGSU Key Yearbooks |access-date=July 24, 2020 |date=January 1, 1944}} A theater on Bowling Green's campus is named after her.{{cite web |url=https://www.bgsu.edu/news/2018/04/eva-marie-saint-receives-lifetime-achievement-award-from-alma-ma.html |title=Eva Marie Saint receives Lifetime Achievement Award from alma mater |website=Bowling Green State University |language=en |access-date=December 29, 2019}} She was an active member in the theater honorary fraternity, Theta Alpha Phi,{{cite journal |title=Bee Gee News May 30, 1945 |url=https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/740 |journal=BG News (Student Newspaper) |access-date=July 24, 2020 |date=May 30, 1945}} and served as record keeper of the student council in 1944.{{cite journal |title=The Key 1944 |url=https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/yearbooks/18/ |journal=BGSU Key Yearbooks |access-date=July 24, 2020 |date=January 1, 1944}}

Career

=Early television career=

Saint's introduction to television began as an NBC page.{{cite news |last=Buckley |first=Cara |title=For NBC Pages, 'Please Follow Me' Is a Fervent Wish |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/nyregion/14page.html |page=A23 |date=October 14, 2008 |access-date=March 26, 2009}} She appeared in the live NBC-TV show Campus Hoopla in 1946–47.{{cite book |last1=Brooks |first1=Tim |title=The complete directory to prime time network and cable TV shows: 1946 - present |last2=Marsh |first2=Earle |date=2007 |publisher=Ballantine Books |isbn=978-0-345-49773-4 |location=New York |pages=214}} Her performances on this program are recorded on rare kinescope, and audio recordings of these telecasts are preserved in the Library of Congress. She also appeared in Bonnie Maid's Versa-Tile Varieties on NBC in 1949 as one of the original singing "Bonnie Maids" used in the live commercials.

Saint appeared in a 1947 Life special about television,"{{cite news| title=TELEVISION: It is a commercial reality, but not yet an art| magazine=Life| pages=117–125| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kEgEAAAAMBAJ&q=television| volume=23| issue=22| date=December 1, 1947}} and also in a 1949 feature Life article about her as a struggling actress earning minimum amounts from early TV while trying to make ends meet in New York City.{{cite news| last=Havemann| first=Ernest| title=Breaking into Television| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEkEAAAAMBAJ&q=television| magazine=Life| volume=27| issue=12| date=September 19, 1949| pages=93–104| access-date=March 7, 2025}} In the late 1940s, Saint continued to make her living by extensive work in radio and television. In 1953, she won 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 actresses such as Lillian Gish and Jo Van Fleet.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/04/24/theater/20130424-bountiful.html |title=First Night at the Theatre: Lillian Gish Gives a Notable performance in Foote's 'The Trip to Bountiful' |accessdate=July 11, 2024 |date=November 4, 1953 |newspaper=The New York Times |last=Atkinson |first=Brooks |author-link=Brooks Atkinson |page=30}}{{cite web |url=http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/13495/The-Trip-to-Bountiful |title=The Trip to Bountiful |accessdate=September 17, 2013 |magazine=Playbill}}

In 1955, Saint was nominated for her first Emmy for "Best Actress In A Single Performance" on The Philco Television Playhouse, playing the young mistress of middle-aged E. G. Marshall in Middle of the Night by Paddy Chayefsky. She won another Emmy nomination for the 1955 television musical version of Our Town, adapted from the Thornton Wilder play of the same name. Co-stars were Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra. Her success and acclaim in TV productions were of such a high level that "one slightly hyperbolic primordial TV critic dubbed her 'the Helen Hayes of television.'"

=''On the Waterfront''=

File:Eva marie saint marlon brando waterfront 14 (edit).jpg in On the Waterfront, 1954]]

Saint made her feature film debut in On the Waterfront (1954), starring Marlon Brando and directed by Elia Kazan—a performance for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her performance in the role of Edie Doyle (whose brother's death sets the film's drama in motion), which she won, with competitors including Claire Trevor, Nina Foch, Katy Jurado and Jan Sterling. She also earned her a British Academy of Film and Television Award nomination for "Most Promising Newcomer". In his review for The New York Times, film critic A. H. Weiler wrote, "In casting Eva Marie Saint—a newcomer to movies from TV and Broadway—Mr. Kazan has come up with a pretty and 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 and sensitivity to genuine romance."{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/07/29/movies/19540729waterfront.html |author=Weiler, A. H. |author-link=A. H. Weiler |title=Review: On the Waterfront |date=July 29, 1954 |newspaper=The New York Times}} The film was a major success and launched Saint's film career. She received $7,500 for the role.{{cite magazine |magazine=Variety |title=Salary Going Up |date=January 11, 1956 |page=4 |url=http://www.archive.org/stream/variety201-1956-01#page/n521/mode/1up |access-date=August 25, 2019}}

In a 2000 interview in Premiere magazine, Saint recalled making the film, which has been highly influential, saying, "[Elia] Kazan put me in a room with Marlon Brando. He said 'Brando is the boyfriend of your sister. You're 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 and started teasing me. He put me off balance. And I remained off balance for the whole shoot." She repeated the anecdote in a 2010 interview.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.com/2010/01/01/talking-eva-marie-saint-part-ii/ |title=Talking with Eva Marie Saint, Part II |last1=Hayden |first1=Tyler |date=January 1, 2010 |newspaper=The Santa Barbara Independent |language=en-US |access-date=December 29, 2019}}

Saint appeared alongside Bob Hope in That Certain Feeling (1956) for which she received $50,000. She was then offered $100,000 to star in the Civil War drama Raintree County (1957) with Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift. After that, she starred with Don Murray in A Hatful of Rain, the pioneering drug-addiction drama, which although made later than Raintree County was released earlier in 1957. She received a nomination for the "Best Foreign Actress" award from the British Academy of Film and Television for her performance.{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1958/film/foreign-actress |title=1958 Film Foreign Actress |website=British Academy Film Awards |access-date=December 28, 2019}}

=''North by Northwest''=

File:North by Northwest movie trailer screenshot (23).jpg and Saint in North by Northwest, 1959]]

Director Alfred Hitchcock surprised many by choosing 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 and James Mason. Written by Ernest Lehman, the film updated and expanded upon the director's early "wrong man" spy adventures of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, including The 39 Steps, Young and Innocent, and Saboteur. North by Northwest became a box-office hit and an influence on spy films for decades.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lotjDwAAQBAJ |title=In Secrecy's Shadow: The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema 1941-1979 |last=Willmetts |first=Simon |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |year=2016 |isbn=9780748693009 |pages=192}} The film ranks number forty on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time.{{cite web |url=https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movies/ |title=AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIES |website=American Film Institute |language=en |access-date=December 28, 2019}}

Hitchcock worked with Saint to make her voice lower and huskier, and personally chose costumes for her during a shopping trip to Bergdorf Goodman in New York City.{{cite book |last=Ackroyd |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Ackroyd |title=Alfred Hitchcock |edition=1st |date=2015 |publisher=Nan A. Talese/Doubleday |location=New York |isbn=978-0-385-53741-4 |page=194}}

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 review of August 7, 1959, The New York Times critic Abe H. Weiler 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 and a glamorous charmer."{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1959/08/07/archives/hitchcock-takes-suspenseful-cooks-tour-north-by-northwest-opens-at.html |title=Hitchcock Takes Suspenseful Cook's Tour; ' North by Northwest' Opens at Music Hall |author=Weiler |first=Abe H. |author-link=A. H. Weiler |date=August 7, 1959 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=December 28, 2019}}

In 2000, recalling her experience making the picture with Cary Grant and 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 and 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, and they've just left the sink at home. They don't want to see you at the sink.' In a 2010 interview she stated: "I said, 'I can't promise you that, Hitch, because I love those dramas.'"

=Mid-career=

File:Don Murray - Eva Marie Saint - 1957.jpg in A Hatful of Rain (1957)]]

Although North by Northwest might have propelled her to the top ranks of stardom, Saint chose to limit her film work in order to spend time with her husband since 1951, director Jeffrey Hayden, and their two children. In the 1960s, Saint continued to distinguish herself in both high-profile and offbeat pictures. She co-starred with Paul Newman in Exodus (1960), a historical drama about the founding of the state of Israel adapted from the novel of the same name by Leon Uris. It was directed by Otto Preminger. She also co-starred with Warren Beatty, Karl Malden and Angela Lansbury as a tragic beauty in the drama All Fall Down (1962). Based upon a novel by James Leo Herlihy and a screenplay by William Inge, the film was directed by John Frankenheimer.{{cite web |title=All Fall Down (1962) |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/22967 |access-date=July 11, 2024 |website=AFI Catalog}}

Saint appeared with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in the melodrama The Sandpiper for Vincente Minnelli, and with James Garner in the World War II thriller 36 Hours (1965), directed by George Seaton. Saint joined an all-star cast in the comedic satire, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, directed by Norman Jewison, and the international racing drama, Grand Prix (1966) directed by Frankenheimer and presented in Cinerama.{{cite web |title=Eva Marie Saint |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Person/49913-Eva-Marie-Saint |access-date=July 11, 2024 |website=AFI Catalog}}

Saint received some of her best reviews for her performance in Loving (1970), co-starring as the wife of George Segal. The film was about a commercial artist's relationship with his wife and other women; it was critically acclaimed but did not have wide viewership.{{cite web |title=Loving - Movie Reviews |website=Rotten Tomatoes |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1122875-loving/reviews |access-date=July 11, 2024 |language=en}}

Because of the mostly second-rate film roles that came her way in the 1970s, Saint returned to television and the stage in the 1980s. She received an Emmy nomination for the 1977 miniseries How The West Was Won and a 1978 Emmy nomination for Taxi!!!.{{cite web |title=Eva Marie Saint |url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/eva-marie-saint |access-date=July 11, 2024 |website=Television Academy |language=en}} She was reunited with On the Waterfront co-star Karl Malden in the television film Fatal Vision, this time as the wife of his character, as he investigated the murder of his daughter and granddaughters.{{cite news |last=O'Connor |first=John J. |date=November 16, 1984 |title=TV Weekend; 'Fatal Vision,' Story of Former Green Beret |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/16/arts/tv-weekend-fatal-vision-story-of-former-green-beret.html |access-date=March 12, 2023 |newspaper=The New York Times}} She played the mother of Cybill Shepherd in the television series Moonlighting, a role that spanned episodes over three years.

=Later career=

File:Eva Marie Saint & Jennifer Jason Leigh (1981).jpg in The Best Little Girl in the World (1981)]]

Saint returned to the big screen for the first time in over a decade in Nothing in Common (1986), in which she played the mother of Tom Hanks's character; it was directed by Garry Marshall.{{cite news |last=Goodman |first=Walter |date=July 30, 1986 |title=THE SCREEN: 'NOTHING IN COMMON' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/30/movies/the-screen-nothing-in-common.html |access-date=July 4, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} Critics applauded her return to features. Saint was soon back on the small screen in numerous projects. After receiving five nominations, she won her first Emmy Award for the 1990 miniseries People Like Us.{{cite magazine |last=Berman |first=Eliza |date=March 5, 2018 |title=Who Is Eva Marie Saint? A Reintroduction |url=https://time.com/5183841/who-is-eva-marie-saint-oscars/ |access-date=July 4, 2024 |magazine=Time |language=en}} She appeared in a number of television productions in the 1990s and was cast as the mother of radio producer, Roz Doyle, in a 1999 episode of the comedy series Frasier.{{cite web| title=Frasier – Season 6, Episode 12: Our Parents, Ourselves| website=Rotten Tomatoes| url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/frasier/s06/e12| access-date=March 7, 2025}}

In 2000, Saint returned to feature films in I Dreamed of Africa with Kim Basinger.{{cite news |title='I Dreamed of Africa': Art Doesn't Grow on Trees. Or Does It? |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/film/050500dreamed-film-review.html |access-date=July 4, 2024 |date=May 5, 2000 |first=Stephen |last=Holden |newspaper=The New York Times}} In 2005, she co-starred with Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard in Don't Come Knocking.{{cite news |last=Dargis |first=Manohla |date=May 20, 2005 |title=Revisiting the Past by Way of Cannes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/20/movies/revisiting-the-past-by-way-of-cannes.html |access-date=July 4, 2024 |newspaper=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} Also in 2005, she appeared in the family film Because of Winn-Dixie, co-starring AnnaSophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, and Cicely Tyson.{{cite news |last=Gates |first=Anita |date=February 18, 2005 |title=Film in Review; 'Because of Winn-Dixie' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/18/arts/movies/film-in-review-because-of-winndixie.html |access-date=July 4, 2024 |newspaper=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

In 2006, Saint appeared in Superman Returns as Martha Kent, the adoptive mother of Superman, alongside Brandon Routh and a computer-generated performance from her On the Waterfront co-star Marlon Brando.{{cite news |last=Dargis |first=Manohla |date=June 27, 2006 |title='Superman Returns' to Save Mankind From Its Sins |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/movies/superman-returns-to-save-mankind-from-its-sins.html |access-date=July 4, 2024 |newspaper=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} Saint was presented one of the Golden Boot Awards in 2007 for her contributions to western cinema.{{cite web |title=Golden Boots Awards honor 'Avenging Angel' |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2007/08/12/Golden-Boots-Awards-honor-Avenging-Angel/15501186969908/ |date=August 12, 2007 |access-date=March 7, 2025 |website=United Press International |language=en}}

Saint lent her voice to the 2012 Nickelodeon animated series The Legend of Korra, a sequel to the hit TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender, playing the now-elderly Katara, a main character from the original series.{{cite web |date=May 17, 2012 |title=From On The Waterfront to The Legend Of Korra with Eva Marie Saint |url=https://www.avclub.com/from-on-the-waterfront-to-the-legend-of-korra-with-eva-1798231354 |access-date=July 4, 2024 |website=The A.V. Club |language=en}} In September 2012, Saint was cast as the adult version of Willa in the film adaptation of the novel Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2012/09/akiva-goldsmans-winters-tale-sets-matt-bomer-lucy-griffiths-eva-marie-saint-340789/ |title=Akiva Goldsman's 'Winter's Tale' Sets Matt Bomer, Lucy Griffiths, Eva Marie Saint |last1=Fleming |first1=Mike |date=September 21, 2012 |website=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=January 28, 2013}}

At the age of 93, Saint appeared at the 2018 Academy Award ceremony to present the award for Costume Design. She received a standing ovation upon entering the stage.{{cite web |title=Eva Marie Saint Makes Triumphant Oscars Return 64 Years After Victory |last=Haring |first=Bruce |website=Deadline Hollywood |date=March 4, 2018 |url=https://deadline.com/2018/03/eva-marie-saint-makes-triumphant-oscars-return-64-years-after-victory-1202311052/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521180924/https://deadline.com/2018/03/eva-marie-saint-makes-triumphant-oscars-return-64-years-after-victory-1202311052/ |archive-date=May 21, 2022 |access-date=May 28, 2023}} In 2021, Saint appeared alongside Marisa Tomei in the podcast play series "The Pack Podcast" as part of the segment "The Bus Ride".{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/eva-marie-saint-marisa-tomei-podcast-1235029626/ |title=Eva Marie Saint and Marisa Tomei on Podcasting, New York Memories, and Rom-Coms |last1=Lang |first1=Brent |date=July 28, 2021 |website=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=July 28, 2021}}

Saint has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 6624 Hollywood Boulevard, and one for television at 6730 Hollywood Boulevard.{{cite web |title=Eva Marie Saint |website=Hollywood Walk of Fame |date=October 25, 2019 |url=https://walkoffame.com/eva-marie-saint/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128103318/https://walkoffame.com/eva-marie-saint/ |archive-date=January 28, 2023 |access-date=May 28, 2023}}

Personal life

File:Eva Marie Saint with husband Jeffrey Hayden (2082307214).jpg

Saint married producer and director Jeffrey Hayden on October 28, 1951. They had two children together: son Darrell Hayden, born April 1, 1955, and daughter Laurette Hayden, born July 19, 1958.{{cite web |url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/eva-marie-saint/bio/149840 |title=Eva Marie Saint biography |magazine=TV Guide}} Their first child, Darrell, was born two days after she won an Academy Award for On the Waterfront. She began her acceptance speech with "I may have the baby right here!" {{cite web |url=https://www.independent.com/2010/01/01/talking-eva-marie-saint-part-ii/ |title=Talking with Eva Marie Saint, Part II |date=January 1, 2010 |author=Tyler Hayden |publisher=Santa Barbara Independent}} Saint and Hayden also have four grandchildren and were married for 65 years, until Hayden's death in 2016.{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jeffrey-hayden-director-husband-eva-marie-saint-was-90-960369 |title=Jeffrey Hayden, TV Director and Husband of Eva Marie Saint, Dies at 90 |first=Mike |last=Barnes |date=January 3, 2017 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=July 23, 2017}}

On July 4, 2024, Saint turned 100, which she spent celebrating with four generations of family members in Los Angeles.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jun/27/happy-100th-birthday-eva-marie-saint-her-best-films-ranked |title=Happy 100th birthday, Eva Marie Saint! Her best films – ranked |first=Anne |last=Billson |date=June 27, 2024 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=July 4, 2024}}McArdle, Tommy (July 4, 2024). [https://people.com/eva-marie-saint-100th-birthday-four-generations-of-family-exclusive-8672975 "How Eva Marie Saint Is Celebrating Her 100th Birthday Alongside 'Four Generations of Family' (Exclusive)"]. People. Retrieved July 4, 2024.

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

align=center|1954

|On the Waterfront

|Edie Doyle

|

align=center|1956

|That Certain Feeling

|Dunreath Henry

|

rowspan=2 align=center|1957

|A Hatful of Rain

|Celia Pope

|

Raintree County

|Nell Gaither

|

align=center|1959

|North by Northwest

|Eve Kendall

|

align=center|1960

|Exodus

|Kitty Fremont

|

align=center|1962

|All Fall Down

|Echo O'Brien

|

rowspan=2 align=center|1965

|36 Hours

|Anna Hedler

|

The Sandpiper

|Claire Hewitt

|

rowspan=2 align=center|1966

|The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming

|Elspeth Whittaker

|

Grand Prix

|Louise Frederickson

|

align=center|1968

|The Stalking Moon

|Sarah Carver

|

align=center|1970

|Loving

|Selma Wilson

|

align=center|1972

|Cancel My Reservation

|Sheila Bartlett

|

align=center|1986

|Nothing in Common

|Lorraine Basner

|

align=center|1996

|Mariette in Ecstasy

|Mother Saint-Raphael

|First shown 2019

align=center|2000

|I Dreamed of Africa

|Franca

|

rowspan=2 align=center|2005

|Don't Come Knocking

|Howard's mother

|

Because of Winn-Dixie

|Miss Franny

|

align=center|2006

|Superman Returns

|Martha Kent

|

align=center|2014

|Winter's Tale

|Adult Willa

|

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1946

|Campus Hoopla

|Commercial spokeswoman

|TV series

1947

|A Christmas Carol

|N/A

|Television film

rowspan="2" |1949

|Suspense

|Francie

|Episode: "The Comic Strip Murder"

Studio One

|Edna Baker

|Episode: "June Moon"

1950–1952

|One Man's Family

|Claudia Barbour Roberts

|TV series

1950

|Prudential Family Playhouse

|Edith Cortwright, Mabel

|2 episodes

rowspan="4" |1953

|The Trip to Bountiful

|Thelma

|Television film

Plymouth Playhouse

|Cousin Lizz

|Episode: "Jamie"

Martin Kane, Private Eye

|Sheila Dixon

|Episode: "Trip to Bermuda"

Goodyear Television Playhouse

|Frances Barclay

|Episode: "Wish on the Moon"

rowspan="3" |1954

|Pond's Theater

|Tina

|Episode: "The Old Maid"

{{sortname|The|Philco Television Playhouse}}

|Dorie Wilson, Betty

|2 episodes

GE True Theater

|Maudle Applegate

|Episode: "The Rider on the Pale Horse"

1955

|Producers' Showcase

|Miss Blake, Emily Webb

|2 episodes

rowspan="2" |1964

|Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

|Diane Wescott

|Episode: "Her School for Bachelors"

Carol for Another Christmas

|WAVE Lt. Gibson

| rowspan="2" |Television film

1976

|The Macahans

|Kate Macahan

1977

|How the West Was Won

|Kate Macahan

|4 episodes

rowspan="2" |1978

|Taxi!!!

|The Passenger

| rowspan="8" |Television film

A Christmas to Remember

|Emma Larson

1979

|When Hell Was in Session

|Jane Denton

1980

|{{sortname|The|Curse of King Tut's Tomb|The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (1980 film)}}

|Sarah Morrissey

rowspan="2" |1981

|{{sortname|The|Best Little Girl in the World}}

|Joanne Powell

Splendor in the Grass

|Mrs. Loomis

rowspan="3" |1983

|Malibu

|Mary Wharton

Jane Doe

|Dr. Addie Coleman

{{sortname|The|Love Boat}}

|Aunt Helena Georgelos

|2 episodes

rowspan="2" |1984

|Fatal Vision

|Mildred Kassab

|Television miniseries

Love Leads the Way: A True Story

|Mrs. Eustes

| rowspan="2" |Television film

rowspan="2" |1986

|{{sortname|The|Last Days of Patton}}

|Beatrice Ayer Patton

{{sortname|A|Year in the Life}}

|Ruth Gardner

|Television miniseries

1987

|Breaking Home Ties

|Emma

|Television film

1986–1988

|Moonlighting

|Virginia Hayes

|6 episodes

1988

|I'll Be Home for Christmas

|Martha Bundy

| rowspan="7" |Television film

rowspan="2" |1990

|Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair

|Marilyn Klinghoffer

People Like Us

|Lil Van Degan Altemus

1991

|Danielle Steel's 'Palomino'

|Caroline Lord

1993

|Kiss of a Killer

|Mrs. Wilson

1995

|My Antonia

|Emmaline Burden

rowspan="2" |1996

|After Jimmy

|Liz

Titanic

|Hazel Foley

|Television miniseries

1997

|Time to Say Goodbye?

|Ruth Klooster

|Television film

1999

|Frasier

|Joanna Doyle

|Episode: "Our Parents, Ourselves"

2000

|Papa's Angels

|Dori "Grammy" Jenkins

| rowspan="2" |Television film

2003

|Open House

|Veronica Reynolds

2012–2014

|{{sortname|The|Legend of Korra}}

|Katara

|Voice, 6 episodes

class="wikitable"

|+Stage credits

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1953

|The Trip to Bountiful

|Thelma

|Outer Circle Critics Award, Theatre World Award

1955

|The Rainmaker

|Lizzie Curry

|

1971

|Winesburg, Ohio

|Mrs Willard

|

1972

|The Lincoln Mask

|Mary Todd

|

1973

|Summer and Smoke

|Alma Winemiller

|

1974

|Desire Under the Elms

|Abbie Putnam

|

1976–77

|The Fatal Weakness

|Mrs. Espenshade

|

1977

|Candida

|Candida Morell

|

1978–79

|First Monday in October

|Judge Ruth Loomis

|

1982–83

|Duet for One

|Stephanie Abrahams

|

1986

|The Country Girl

|Georgie Elgin

|

1994

|Death of a Salesman

|Linda Loman

|

2001

|Love Letters

|Melissa Gardner

|

2005

|Touch The Names

|

|

Awards and nominations

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YearGroupAwardFilm or seriesResult
rowspan=3|1955Academy AwardBest Actress in a Supporting Rolerowspan="2" | On the Waterfront{{won}}
BAFTA AwardMost Promising Newcomer to Film{{nom}}
rowspan="2" |Emmy AwardBest Actress in a Single PerformanceThe Philco Television Playhouse (Episode: "Middle of the Night"){{nom}}
1956Best Actress - Single PerformanceProducers' Showcase (Episode: "Our Town"){{nom}}
rowspan=3|1958BAFTA AwardBest Foreign Actressrowspan="3" | A Hatful of Rain{{nom}}
Golden Globe AwardBest Actress - Drama{{nom}}
Laurel AwardsTop Female Dramatic Performancebgcolor="#FAEBD7" | 3rd Place
1977rowspan="3" | Emmy AwardOutstanding Lead Actress in a Limited SeriesHow the West Was Won{{nom}}
1978Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama or Comedy SpecialTaxi!!!{{nom}}
1990Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a SpecialPeople Like Us{{won}}
1999Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festivalrowspan="2" | Lifetime Achievement Award{{center
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2000Savannah Film and Video Festival{{center
}}{{won}}
2004San Luis Obispo International Film FestivalKing Vidor Memorial Award{{center
}}{{won}}
2007Golden Boot Awards{{center
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}}{{won}}
20122nd Annual Behind the Voice Actors Voice Acting Awards{{cite web |url=http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/btva-awards/2012/television/ |publisher=BTVA |title=2nd Annual BTVA Voice Acting Awards 2012 |access-date=July 28, 2013}}Best Female Vocal Performance in a Television Series in a Guest RoleThe Legend of Korra (Episodes: "Welcome to Republic City"; "Endgame"){{won}}
2018Bowling Green State UniversityLifetime Achievement Award{{center
}}{{won}}

See also

References

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  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20050408202957/http://home.nyc.rr.com/alweisel/premiereevamariesaint.htm Idol Chatter: Eva Marie Saint]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928094622/http://www.movingpicturesmagazine.com/Default.aspx?DN=d554172e-b17e-41ed-a79d-e7a9cd129f89 On Life Between Brando's Babe and Superman's Mom (Moving Pictures Magazine interview)]

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