Eva Marie Saint born July 4, is an American retired actress. 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 s. For her performance, she won an Outer Critics Circle Award.
Beginning in the s, her film career began to decline and she returned to television in the following decades and into the s, with a few film roles throughout. She was inducted into the high school's hall of fame in During this time she played the lead role in a production of Personal Appearance. Saint's introduction to television began as an NBC page.
Saint appeared in a Life Magazine special about television, [ 9 ] and also in a 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. Marshall in Middle of the Night by Paddy Chayefsky.
She won another Emmy nomination for the 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. 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. In a 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.
