Eva Marie Saint
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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 an apron. The audience wants to see their leading ladies dressed up.` He saw me as others didn`t."
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Birthdate :July 4, 1924
Location :Newark , New Jersey
Country :United States
Sign : Cancer
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Job :actresses
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1954
Son Darrell was born two days after she won the Oscar for On the Waterfront (1954).1954
Got 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, but there were also some qualms about Saint playing a teen at age 30. 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.1954
She and her performance in On the Waterfront (1954) are mentioned in the song, "Rattlesnakes", by the band, Lloyd Cole & The Commotions.1987
In 1987, the Eva Marie Saint Theater was dedicated on the campus of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Saint is a 1946 graduate of BGSU.
