EVA MARIE SAINT – 96 YEARS OLD

Eva Marie Saint was one of the famous artists back in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Her career spanned for seven decades in total, accumulating numerous awards and recognition from different prestigious bodies. Saint’s beauty and talent served her right by being her means to earn, keeping her away from opting for money loans. Her pair up with equally famous figures such as Elia Kazan and Alfred Hitchcock, later in the ’50s movies, On the Waterfront and North by Northwest, helped cement her legacy in the industry. Add to her list of successes is her marriage to director Jeffrey Hayden in 1951. Just quite recently, we saw her in the 2018 Academy Awards ceremony along with other celebrities.

Saint was born in Newark, New Jersey. She was a student at Bethlehem Central High School in Delmar, New York, and studied acting at Bowling Green State University, where she became a Delta Gamma Sorority member. It was here when she landed the lead role in a production of Personal Appearance. She served as the student council’s record keeper in the early ‘40s. She returned to acting in movies in the film I Dreamed of Africa, where she cop-starred with Kim Basinger. She worked alongside Sam Shepard and Jessica Lange in Don’t Come Knocking.