Eva Marie Saint

Just great, OP. Have you never heard of the Datalounge curse? Whenever a thread is started about some celebrity that hasn't been heard from in a long time, they end up dead within a few months, Ask Lizabeth Scott.

Ah, I couldn’t resist. I didn’t see any discussion about her on this forum which I thought odd given that she starred alongside so many DL icons. She was looking well, for her age, at the Oscars the other year when she presented.

Nice pic, op. Genuine smile, good looks without being done up in Hollywood glamour. Newman looks hung over.

Godawful, talentless dumb 50s blonde. Always made my skin crawl.

Oh really? R4. To me she seemed the antithesis of the dumb blonde. In North by Northwest she was an intelligent spy, in On the Waterfront she was the earnest sister to murdered, Joey. Dumb and blonde don’t come to mind when I think of Eva Marie.

She was fantastic alongside Cary Grant. Once saw her at another table at the old Trader Vic's in SF.

Too classy to spill.

R6 she and Grant did make a good team, it’s a shame they weren’t teamed up again. They may have been good together in The Birds or Marnie.

I think R4 is getting her mixed up with someone else.

R7 more than likely. But her autobiography would be one of the rare ones that I would enjoy reading. She’s managed to keep her mystique which would make it even more fascinating to read her first hand accounts of the films she’s been a part of and those she has worked with as well as her experiences in the industry as she progressed into the various ages. I mean from On the Waterfront to Moonlighting, there’s quite a lot of scope.

I read she was first choice for The Thomas Crown affair but was deemed too old by the producers and DL fave Faye Dunaway was given the role. While I can’t imagine anyone other than Dunaway in that role I guess that may have been the turning point for Eva Marie in terms of ageing out of those very interesting and exciting roles that could have propelled her further.

Here she is meeting Dorothy Dandridge at the 1955 Oscars. I love seeing candids like this; I’m sure she rubbed shoulders with many interesting people. Dorothy was romantically linked to Otto Preminger at the time and in a few years Eva Marie would be directed by him in Exodus.

Her presenting at the Oscars a few years ago. Well into her 90s but looking and sounding great.

I saw her in DEATH OF A SALESMAN opposite Judd Hirsch at UNC years ago.I actually don’t like the play but I thought they were both quite good. My memory says her husband had some connection to the university (alumni maybe?).

It won’t happen. She won’t dish on anyone publicly so it would be super white-washed and bland though her life wasn’t. She is a supreme class act though and funny.

I shouldn't be surprised she is still alive. She was always the type to hang on.