Happy 92nd Birthday!!!
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jaypay111 — 9 years ago(July 04, 2016 11:35 AM)
Eva Marie Saint has a perfect right to act like Hollywood royalty.
She won an Oscar for her film debut in "On the Waterfront," holding her ground against Marlon Brando in his prime. She was Cary Grant's dangerously sexy squeeze in "North by Northwest," conquered Paul Newman in "Exodus" and counts greats Alfred Hitchcock and Elia Kazan among her directors.
But Saint is winningly candid in a Turner Classic Movies special and an interview, a contrast to her luminous screen presence and stellar career. She remains a working actress as she nears her 90th birthday this summer, on July 4.
The industry has changed during her more than six decades in it, but Saint said she takes it in stride.
"You know how to stay young? Go with the flow," she said. She also keeps in mind advice that she heard from film great and mentor Lillian Gish, whom Saint worked with in "The Trip to Bountiful" on TV and onstage in the early 1950s.
"It's today and tomorrow, and don't get cranky," Gish would advise actresses worried about their future, Saint recalled.
"Eva Marie Saint: Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival," a conversation between Saint and TCM host Robert Osborne, airs 8 p.m. EDT Monday as part of a TCM tribute that includes showings of "On the Waterfront" (1954), "North by Northwest" (1959) and "Raintree County" (1957).
Saint, who spoke to Osborne at the 2013 TCM festival in Los Angeles (to be held April 10-14 this year), is charmingly direct about her film and TV career, her colleagues and how she combined family life with her demanding profession.
Director Jeffrey Hayden, her husband of more than 60 years, offered support from the audience.
"There are no small roles," he called out when Saint mentioned a lesser part she had played.
For Saint, there were certainly no minor leading men.
She appeared with "the most enviable list of co-stars of any actress of her time," Osborne said, including Gregory Peck, James Garner and Warren Beatty (in Saint's personal favorite, "All Fall Down," 1962). "She's also a wonderful storyteller and has great tales to tell."
Saint proves that in the TCM special. At one point, she delightedly recounts how "Exodus" director Otto Preminger took over from Newman in one scene to demonstrate how better to give her a smooch.
"I mean, he's telling Paul Newman how to kiss?" she said, laughing.
Brando, she recalls, was both "really adorable" and a little frightening during filming of "On the Waterfront."
"I felt that he could see right through me," Saint said of "The Godfather" star that she considers one of the finest actors ever.
"I don't know what happened to Marlon," she added, referring to his late career decline. "I think he lost possibly, I'm not a psychiatrist the joy of acting."
That joy is something Saint retains, although she said she envies the respect and movie roles accorded veteran British actresses including Judi Dench and Maggie Smith.
"We don't have quite that attitude in Hollywood," she said in a recent interview. But she has outgrown the familiar industry practice of fudging one's birthdate.
"You reach a certain age and you're so proud that you're walking and breathing and loving and working and all of that at 90," she said.
The still-elegant Saint is on the big screen again after an absence of several years, appearing in the fantasy romance "Winter's Tale" with Colin Farrell and Jessica Brown Findlay ("Downton Abbey"). In 2006, Saint played Martha Kent in "Superman Returns" and starred in "Because of Winn-Dixie" in 2005.
She's still charming her co-stars: Farrell gave her five dozen roses on the final day of shooting. But her focus remains on her husband and family, including son Darrell Hayden, a design instructor at a San Francisco university; daughter Laurette Hayden, a marriage and family therapist; and three grandchildren.
Acting "could be a lonely life. I met older actresses who never married, never had children. That's not for me," said Saint. As a young woman, she recalled thinking, "Much as I love this business, I don't want to grow old alone."
She and Hayden take an hour-long walk daily to help stay healthy, she said.
But work still beckons, including promotion for her TCM special.
"Then I'll be on to something else," Saint said, confidently.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/03/29/eva-marie-saint-dishes-on-her-legendary-career.html -
jaypay111 — 9 years ago(July 04, 2016 11:45 AM)
Eva Marie Saint doesnt remember the first Hitchcock movie she ever saw, but the 90-year-old star of North by Northwest does recall the most indelible Hitchcock moment. I remember Janet (Leigh) and I were talking about it once, and she said she couldnt take a shower without locking the door, Saint told us about Psychos most infamous scene. I said, I have a secret, I cant either. It was so dynamic and the music has so much to do with it.
The music had everything to do with it on Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl, where Saint hosted The Big Picture: Hitchcock!, a salute to the master of suspense and film composers such as Dimitri Tiomkin, Alfred Newman, and, of course, Bernard Herrmann, whose music for Psycho slices like a steak knife through the popular imagination.
Herrmann also scored Hitchs previous movie, North by Northwest, starring Saint, Cary Grant, and James Mason. It was the last of a string of classics the director made in the 50s, including Psycho, Rear Window, and Vertigo; the films starred a string of blonds like Grace Kelly, Doris Day, Vera Miles, and, in 1959, Saint, in North By Northwest, despite the studios insistence on using Cyd Charisse.
He didnt talk about acting. He worked with me from the outside in, Saint recalled about working with Hitch. My hair, my makeup, my shoes, my jewelry, my purse, my gloves, everything. And just from creating that exterior for me, he gave me the sense of a spy lady. But we never talked about emotion. He told me not to use my hands, I have a habit of doing that, and to lower my voice. And always, in my scenes with Cary Grant, look directly into his eyes, which was not difficult.
When it came time to shoot her big kiss with Grant, Saint says she could only think of one thing. I was hoping I wouldnt step on his feet, she confessed with a smile. That was the scene on the train and we had to move like the train was moving and there was a still man taking photos while we were doing the scene. He was up about 12 or 15 steps, he got so involved in the kissing scene he fell off the ladder. He didnt hurt himself so we can laugh about it. So then we had to do it again, which wasnt bad.
Not bad at all for a woman who played opposite nearly every ma5b4tinee idol of the 50s and 60s, from Paul Newman in Exodus, to Montgomery Clift in Raintree County, Warren Beatty in All Fall Down, and Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront.
Her years studying first at the American Theatre Wing at the New School and later at the Actors Studio prepared her for that last one, an indelible collaboration with the Studios legendary founder, Elia Kazan, and American Theatre Wing alum Marlon Brando, who three years earlier had revolutionized acting in A Streetcar Named Desire.
In On the Waterfront, Brando plays a dockworker by day, boxer by night. In a pivotal moment while wooing Saint, she accidentally drops a glove. As he stoops and picks it up, Brando brings a physical dynamic to the scene that was nonexistent on the page. During rehearsal, Saint dropped the glove by accident and Brando picked it up, and instead of giving it back, tried it on.
Any other actor might have just picked that up, gave it to me and then we proceed with the dialogue, she offered. But no, he caressed that glove, very sensuous the way he did it. When they showed Kazan, he asked them to do it for the camera. For Marlon to have picked up that glove in rehearsal, I thought that was a pivotal moment. The glove keeps her there and it shows his feelings for her in a very subtle, or maybe not-so-subtle way.
She was 30 when she won the Oscar for that movie, and only two days awa16d0y from giving birth to her first child. By the time she worked with Hitchcock on North by Northwest, she was 35 and had just given birth to her second child. And while other actresses might have strayed in the arms of all those matinee idols, Saint has been with husband Jeffrey Hayden for 63 years. In fact, he was the reason she decided to do North by Northwest, when she was initially underwhelmed by the script.
I vividly remember him saying, Honey, I think you should find a quiet spot. Ill take care of the children and I want you to really think about this and reread this script, she recalled. He was so right. And thats what husbands are for.
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/09/eva-marie-saint-cary-grant -
jaypay111 — 9 years ago(July 04, 2016 11:47 AM)
Happy Birthday to my favorite actress of any time!
Whether Edie, Celia, Eve, Kitty, Sarah, Virginia, Franca, Miss Franny, or Martha, you always steal my heart.
Many, many happy returns, Ms. Saint, and my sincerest hope that you get to fulfill your dream to fly in the next 'Superman' movie. -
jaypay111 — 9 years ago(July 04, 2016 11:48 AM)
Eva Marie Saint has a perfect right to act like Hollywood royalty.
She won an Oscar for her film debut in "On the Waterfront," holding her ground against Marlon Brando in his prime. She was Cary Grant's dangerously sexy squeeze in "North by Northwest," conquered Paul Newman in "Exodus" and counts greats Alfred Hitchcock and Elia Kazan among her directors.
But Saint is winningly candid in a Turner Classic Movies special and an interview, a contrast to her luminous screen presence and stellar career. She remains a working actress as she nears her 90th birthday this summer, on July 4.
The industry has changed during her more than six decades in it, but Saint said she takes it in stride.
"You know how to stay young? Go with the flow," she said. She also keeps in mind advice that she heard from film great and mentor Lillian Gish, whom Saint worked with in "The Trip to Bountiful" on TV and onstage in the early 1950s.
"It's today and tomorrow, and don't get cranky," Gish would advise actresses worried about their future, Saint recalled.
"Eva Marie Saint: Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival," a conversation between Saint and TCM host Robert Osborne, airs 8 p.m. EDT Monday as part of a TCM tribute that includes showings of "On the Waterfront" (1954), "North by Northwest" (1959) and "Raintree County" (1957).
Saint, who spoke to Osborne at the 2013 TCM festival in Los Angeles (to be held April 10-14 this year), is charmingly direct about her film and TV career, her colleagues and how she combined family life with her demanding profession.
Director Jeffrey Hayden, her husband of more than 60 years, offered support from the audience.
"There are no small roles," he called out when Saint mentioned a lesser part she had played.
For Saint, there were certainly no minor leading men.
She appeared with "the most enviable list of co-stars of any actress of her time," Osborne said, including Gregory Peck, James Garner and Warren Beatty (in Saint's personal favorite, "All Fall Down," 1962). "She's also a wonderful storyteller and has great tales to tell."
Saint proves that in the TCM special. At one point, she delightedly recounts how "Exodus" director Otto Preminger took over from Newman in one scene to demonstrate how better to give her a smooch.
"I mean, he's telling Paul Newman how to kiss?" she said, laughing.
Brando, she recalls, was both "really adorable" and a little frightening during filming of "On the Waterfront."
"I felt that he could see right through me," Saint said of "The Godfather" star that she considers one of the finest actors ever.
"I don't know what happened to Marlon," she added, referring to his late career decline. "I think he lost possibly, I'm not a psychiatrist the joy of acting."
That joy is something Saint retains, although she said she envies the respect and movie roles accorded veteran British actresses including Judi Dench and Maggie Smith.
"We don't have quite that attitude in Hollywood," she said in a recent interview. But she has outgrown the familiar industry practice of fudging one's birthdate.
"You reach a certain age and you're so proud that you're walking and breathing and loving and working and all of that at 90," she said.
The still-elegant Saint is on the big screen again after an absence of several years, appearing in the fantasy romance "Winter's Tale" with Colin Farrell and Jessica Brown Findlay ("Downton Abbey"). In 2006, Saint played Martha Kent in "Superman Returns" and starred in "Because of Winn-Dixie" in 2005.
She's still charming her co-stars: Farrell gave her five dozen roses on the final day of shooting. But her focus remains on her husband and family, including son Darrell Hayden, a design instructor at a San Francisco university; daughter Laurette Hayden, a marriage and family therapist; and three grandchildren.
Acting "could be a lonely life. I met older actresses who never married, never had children. That's not for me," said Saint. As a young woman, she recalled thinking, "Much as I love this business, I don't want to grow old alone."
She and Hayden take an hour-long walk daily to help stay healthy, she said.
But work still beckons, including promotion for her TCM special.
"Then I'll be on to something else," Saint said, confidently.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/03/29/eva-marie-saint-dishes-on-her-legendary-career.html -
Shadow2700 — 9 years ago(July 04, 2016 08:55 AM)
Eva Marie Saint may be as close to Hollywood royalty as they get. She talks about a life in the movies with our Mo Rocca:
Oscar Night was a little different back in 1955, when a pregnant Eva Marie Saint won Best Supporting Actress for "On the Waterfront."
"I may have the baby right here!" she said.
She didn't. The baby came two days later.
When asked if she campaigned for an Oscar back then, Saint replied, "I don't think I knew what the word was. Politicians campaigned. No, I mean, it was just different, you know?"
Rocca asked, "When you won an Oscar, was your name legally changed to 'Oscar-winner Eva Marie Saint'?"
"Yes," she said, "and I love it."
It was her film debut, but she'd already established herself as a dramatic actress doing live plays on television, including a musical version of "Our Town" with Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra. She was also married, and has been since 1951.
"You've been married to the same man since 1951," Rocca said. "You have two kids. How many grandkids?"
"Three."
"Career, family, it was never an issue with you?"
"It was never an issue because I made decisions," Saint said. "I had an agent once who wanted me to make many more movies. I said, 'I can't. I can only do one a year, if that. I have children, young children.'
"And he said, 'Well, I guess you won't be a superstar.' And I said, 'Well, I guess not.'"
"And what happened to that agent?"
"Fired him."
Family was so important, when she made the film "Exodus," she insisted on bringing her husband, kids, parents and mother-in-law with her to Israel.
Rocca asked, "Is it true that the director Otto Preminger, on the set of 'Exodus,' took you in his arms to show Paul Newman how you should be kissed?"
"Can you believe that? It's true!" she laughed. "I know, I know. It was on the hillside. And there's Mr. Blue Eyes, right? Paul Newman. We know what to do, right? 'Let me show you.' It was very funny."
One of her most famous roles was the sexy spy lady in Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest." His direction to her?
"Three things," Saint recalled: "Lower your voice. Don't use your hands. And look directly into Cary Grant's eyes at all times."
Hitchcock had a reputation for being tough on young actresses, but not on Eva Marie.
"I found that he was such a wonderful director, gentleman, funny, courteous, but there are other actresses who don't feel the same way. I don't even want to hear stories about him."
But she'll tell stories about him.
"He didn't like the clothes that had been made for me at MGM," Sain5b4t said. "So I flew to New York and he took me to Bergdorf Goodman and he sat me down. Suddenly this model walked by in a black dress, with red embossed roses, and I said, 'Oh, Hitch, I like that.' He said, 'Wrap it up for Miss Saint.' So I called him my Sugar Daddy from then on."
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MGM
"Now, in 'North by Northwest,' you are a super fox," Rocca said. "Did you surprise even yourself?"
"No. No. I don't think actors are surprised. You mean when I saw myself?"
"Yeah."
"No, I mean that's what we do. When you do your shows and you see you are very good at something, are you surprised? Oh yes, I can see you are. You are surprised."
"I'm constantly amazed!" Rocca said.
"This is a crazy show," said Saint. "You edit all this?"
The 89-year-old actress donated much of her memorabilia to the Motion Picture Academy's Margaret Herrick Library, where we met. Boxes of memories, including her early modeling career.
"I was Sweater Queen at Bowling Green State University," she said. "Oh, that's a laugh, isn't it?"
"How did you become Sweater Queen?"
"Well, let's not get personal."
And she made the cover of Life Magazine. Rocca asked, "You were never in it for the fame, but this had to be really special."
"I was in it for the fame!" she laughed. "If you're an actor, you know you're not going b68to be acting in your living room. But I mean once people start responding to your work as an artist, it's very fulfilling."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-oscar-winner-eva-marie-saint-never-went-hollywood/ -
Mr_Beale — 9 years ago(July 04, 2016 08:57 AM)
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Shadow2700 — 9 years ago(July 04, 2016 10:02 AM)
Eva Marie Saint has a perfect right to act like Hollywood royalty.
She won an Oscar for her film debut in "On the Waterfront," holding her ground against Marlon Brando in his prime. She was Cary Grant's dangerously sexy squeeze in "North by Northwest," conquered Paul Newman in "Exodus" and counts greats Alfred Hitchcock and Elia Kazan among her directors.
But Saint is winningly candid in a Turner Classic Movies special and an interview, a contrast to her luminous screen presence and stellar career. She remains a working actress as she nears her 90th birthday this summer, on July 4.
The industry has changed during her more than six decades in it, but Saint said she takes it in stride.
"You know how to stay young? Go with the flow," she said. She also keeps in mind advice that she heard from film great and mentor Lillian Gish, whom Saint worked with in "The Trip to Bountiful" on TV and onstage in the early 1950s.
"It's today and tomorrow, and don't get cranky," Gish would advise actresses worried about their future, Saint recalled.
"Eva Marie Saint: Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival," a conversation between Saint and TCM host Robert Osborne, airs 8 p.m. EDT Monday as part of a TCM tribute that includes showings of "On the Waterfront" (1954), "North by Northwest" (1959) and "Raintree County" (1957).
Saint, who spoke to Osborne at the 2013 TCM festival in Los Angeles (to be held April 10-14 this year), is charmingly direct about her film and TV career, her colleagues and how she combined family life with her demanding profession.
Director Jeffrey Hayden, her husband of more than 60 years, offered support from the audience.
"There are no small roles," he called out when Saint mentioned a lesser part she had played.
For Saint, there were certainly no minor leading men.
She appeared with "the most enviable list of co-stars of any actress of her time," Osborne said, including Gregory Peck, James Garner and Warren Beatty (in Saint's personal favorite, "All Fall Down," 1962). "She's also a wonderful storyteller and has great tales to tell."
Saint proves that in the TCM special. At one point, she delightedly recounts how "Exodus" director Otto Preminger took over from Newman in one scene to demonstrate how better to give her a smooch.
"I mean, he's telling Paul Newman how to kiss?" she said, laughing.
Brando, she recalls, was both "really adorable" and a little frightening during filming of "On the Waterfront."
"I felt that he could see right through me," Saint said of "The Godfather" star that she considers one of the finest actors ever.
"I don't know what happened to Marlon," she added, referring to his late career decline. "I think he lost possibly, I'm not5b4 a psychiatrist the joy of acting."
That joy is something Saint retains, although she said she envies the respect and movie roles accorded veteran British actresses including Judi Dench and Maggie Smith.
"We don't have quite that attitude in Hollywood," she said in a recent interview. But she has outgrown the familiar industry practice of fudging one's birthdate.
"You reach a certain age and you're so proud that you're walking and breathing and loving and working and all of that at 90," she said.
The still-elegant Saint is on the big screen again after an absence of several years, appearing in the fantasy romance "Winter's Tale" with Colin Farrell and Jessica Brown Findlay ("Downton Abbey"). In 2006, Saint played Martha Kent in "Superman Returns" and starred in "Because of Winn-Dixie" in 2005.
She's still charming her co-stars: Farrell gave her five dozen roses on the final day of shooting. But her focus remains on her husband and family, including son Darrell Hayden, a design instructor at a San Francisco university; daughter Laurette Hayden, a marriage and family therapist; and three grandchildren.
Acting "could be a lonely life. I met older actresses who never married, never had children. That's not for me," said Saint. As a young woman, she recalled thinking, "Much as I love this business, I don't want to grow old alone."
She and Hayden take an hour-long walk 111cdaily to help stay healthy, she said.
But work still beckons, including promotion for her TCM special.
"Then I'll be on to something else," Saint said, confidently.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/03/29/eva-marie-saint-dishes-on-her-legendary-career.html -
Shadow2700 — 9 years ago(July 04, 2016 11:45 AM)
Eva Marie Saint doesnt remember the first Hitchcock movie she ever saw, but the 90-year-old star of North by Northwest does recall the most indelible Hitchcock moment. I remember Janet (Leigh) and I were talking about it once, and she said she couldnt take a shower without locking the door, Saint told us about Psychos most infamous scene. I said, I have a secret, I cant either. It was so dynamic and the music has so much to do with it.
The music had everything to do with it on Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl, where Saint hosted The Big Picture: Hitchcock!, a salute to the master of suspense and film composers such as Dimitri Tiomkin, Alfred Newman, and, of course, Bernard Herrmann, whose music for Psycho slices like a steak knife through the popular imagination.
Herrmann also scored Hitchs previous movie,16d0 North by Northwest, starring Saint, Cary Grant, and James Mason. It was the last of a string of classics the director made in the 50s, including Psycho, Rear Window, and Vertigo; the films starred a string of blonds like Grace Kelly, Doris Day, Vera Miles, and, in 1959, Saint, in North By Northwest, despite the studios insistence on using Cyd Charisse.
He didnt talk about acting. He worked with me from the outside in, Saint recalled about working with Hitch. My hair, my makeup, my shoes, my jewelry, my purse, my gloves, everything. And just from creating that exterior for me, he gave me the sense of a spy lady. But we never talked about emotion. He told me not to use my hands, I have a habit of doing that, and to lower my voice. And always, in my scenes with Cary Grant, look directly into his eyes, which was not difficult.
When it came time to shoot her big kiss with Grant, Saint says she could only think of one thing. I was hoping I wouldnt step on his feet, she confessed with a smile. That was the scene on the train and we had to move like the train was moving and there was a still man taking photos while we were doing the scene. He was up about 12 or 15 steps, he got so involved in the kissing scene he fell off the ladder. He didnt hurt himself so we can laugh about it. So then we had to do it again, which wasnt bad.
Not bad at all for a woman who played opposite nearly every matinee idol of the 50s and 60s, from Paul Newman in Exodus, to Montgomery Clift in Raintree County, Warren Beatty in All Fall Down, and Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront.
Her years studying first at the American Theatre Wing at the New School and later at the Actors Studio prepared her for that last one, an indelible collaboration with the Studios legendary founder, Elia Kazan, and American Theatre Wing alum Marlon Brando, who three years earlier had revolutionized acting in A Streetcar Named Desire.
In On the Waterfront, Brando plays a dockworker by day, boxer by night. In a pivotal moment while wooing Saint, she accidentally drops a glove. As he stoops and picks it up, Brando brings a physical dynamic to the scene that was nonexistent on the page. During rehearsal, Saint dropped the glove by accident and Brando picked it up, and instead of giving it back, tried it on.
Any other actor might have just picked that up, gave it to me and then we proceed with the dialogue, she offered. But no, he caressed that glove, very sensuous the way he did it. When they showed Kazan, he asked them to do it for the camera. For Marlon to have picked up that glove in rehearsal, I thought that was a pivotal moment. The glove keeps her there and it shows his feelings for her in a very subtle, or maybe not-so-subtle way.
She was 30 when she won the Oscar for that movie, and only two days away from giving birth to her first child. By the time she worked with Hitchcock on North by Northwest, she was 35 and had just given birth to her second child. And while other actresses might have strayed in the arms of all those matinee idols, Saint has been with husband Jeffrey Hayden for 63 years. In fact, he was the reason she decided to do North by Northwest, when she was initially underwhelmed by the script.
I vividly remember him saying, Honey, I think you should find a quiet spot. Ill take care of the children and I want you to really think about this and reread this script, she recalled. He was so right. And thats what husbands are for.
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/09/eva-marie-saint-cary-grant
