Eve Marie Saint

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, a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to 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

Saint was born on July 4, 1924, in Newark, New Jersey, to Quaker parents. 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''. A theater on Bowling Green's campus is named after her. She was an active member in the theater honorary fraternity, Theta Alpha Phi, and served as record keeper of the student council in 1944.

Career

Early television career

Saint's introduction to television began as an NBC page. She appeared in the live NBC-TV show '' Campus Hoopla'' in 1946–47. 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, 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. 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.

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