EVA MARIE SAINT #86 JUNE/2025
The Old Hollywood Newsletter - Celebrating Vintage Sensuality
Hello Body House Members;
2025 keeps moving along and so does the advancement of artificial intelligence.
It’s a bit intimidating, yet now that we’ve taken a closer look at what AI can actually do, it’s becoming clear it will NEVER be smarter than humans and will definitely never be more creative than we are.
I discuss how to detect the difference between AI and reality with EI on Substack where The Old Hollywood Newsletter is published.
So, to offer a sense of stability in these crazy times, for June we’re featuring a beautiful classic movie star who was married just once and stayed married until her husband passed in 2016.
AND...
As of this writing, she is 100 years old!
Meet the beautiful and talented EVA MARIA SAINT.
Discover more about this very stable beauty below…
Thank you for your interest in The Body House.
Stay Sensual, Dyann Bridges – Editor-in-Chief – Writer and VO Actor
In The Beginning…
Eva Marie Saint was born July 4, 1924 in Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Saint was known for her work as an American film and television actress. She also produced projects as well.
She brought tremendous emotional depth and complexity to her roles, in which she generally played women who appeared fragile, but had great inner strength.
Two of Eva Marie Saint’s best known roles were in Elia Kazan‘s On the Waterfront (1954) with Marlon Brando, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcock‘s North by Northwest (1959).
Off To Hollywood!
Eva Marie Saint began acting while she was a student at Bowling Green State University (B.A., 1946).
She started her career as a radio actress in New York City.
In 1948, Eva Marie Saint began taking classes at The Actors Studio.
Starting in 1949, Saint appeared regularly on such TV shows as Actor’s Studio (1948–50) and The Prudential Family Playhouse (1950–51).
However, it was during the early 1950s when Saint began getting noticed.
Specifically, her performance in a 1953 televised production of Horton Foote’s play The Trip to Bountiful, starring Lillian Gish.
FAST FACTS ABOUT EVA MARIE SAINT
EVA MARIE SAINT is one of Hollywood’s oldest living legends at the age of 100 as of this writing
She will be 101 years old on July 4th 2025
Saint has a career spanning 80 years – She said she never wanted to retire
The icy blonde beauty was an Alfred Hitchcock favorite
She also had a star-making role in the classic film On the Waterfront
She was married to her husband, producer/director Jeffery Hayden, for 65 years, until the day he died
Saint had just one husband and two children; a boy and a girl
She had four grandchildren
Eva Marie Saint said she would make only one movie a year so she could spend more time with her husband and two children
Saint said that Marlon Brando was as sensitive as a hummingbird
Saint said that Cary Grant was the most elegant man she had ever met
EVA MARIE SAINT’S TOP MOVIES
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
On The Waterfront is a multi-Academy-Award winning film. Eva Marie Saint has talked about how exquisitely sensitive Brando was.
She first met him when they began filming this movie and at first, she felt so seen by him that she thought he knew her better than she knew herself.
This is a truly exceptional film that is definitely worth the watch.
On The Waterfront and Brando’s performance in it is credited as being a huge part of the reason why Hollywood changed its style of acting; from stilted to natural.
And guess what… I found it on TUBI for FREE! Click the pic and have a look below…
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
This is another great movie. Eva Marie Saint was in so many good ones. She most did television and chose her movie projects very carefully.
In North by Northwest, Saint is teamed up with Cary Grant with direction from the inimitable Alfred Hitchcock. She thought Grant was funny and elegant while she had some choice words for Hitchcock. (See quotes from Eva Marie Saint farther down the page).
Once again, I was able to find the full version on Tubi for free. *I am not affiliated with Tubi at all.*
Click the pic below to watch North by Northwest.
EXODUS (1960)
Exodus is a three and a half hour long movie starring Paul Newman along with our lovely featured star, Eva Marie Saint. This is a war film that depicts the time when Jewish people were taken to Palestine to begin a new nation.
It should be said that Exodus is a political drama and epic propaganda film. Little attempt was made to make the movie a balanced view of a historical event.
In spite of this, Exodus has played a significant role in shaping American public opinion about Israel in the 1960s. Historians view it as a highly selective and dramatized portrayal rather than a reliable history lesson.
The film presents a mostly one-sided view of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It heavily favors the Zionist perspective while minimizing the experiences and grievances of Palestinians and Arabs.
However, if you really like these types of war films and appreciate great acting of the time, this is definitely worth the watch. Click the pic below to watch on Tubi..
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EVA MARIE SAINT’S LOVE LIFE
First & ONLY Husband – JEFFERY HAYDEN (m. 1951; to 2016 his death)
It’s not often in this newsletter that I can say the featured beauty was married just once…. AND happily.
Saint married producer and director Jeffrey Hayden on October 28, 1951. They were married for 65 years, until Hayden’s death in 2016.
They had two children together: son Darrell Hayden, born April 1, 1955, and daughter Laurette Hayden, born July 19, 1958.
Saint and Hayden also had four grandchildren.
Darrell, was born two days after Saint won an Academy Award for On the Waterfront. She began her acceptance speech with “I may have the baby right here!”
On July 4, 2024, Saint turned 100, which she spent celebrating with four generations of family members in Los Angeles.
*As of this writing, Eva Marie Saint is still living. She is the oldest living and earliest surviving actor to have won an Academy Award. Saint is one of the very few stars left from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Interesting Facts About Saint’s and Hayden’s Relationship
HOW THEY MET: Eva Marie Saint met Jeffrey Hayden on the New York City subway.
Hayden was a director, producer, and writer for television, film, and theater.
Saint was an actress, who did a lot of television before her film debut. She limited her movie career to spend more time with her husband.
They worked together in a one-night-only performance of “Love Letters” in 2001. This was shortly before their 50th anniversary.
Sadly, Hayden died from cancer in Los Angeles on (Christmas Eve) December 24, 2016, at the age of 90.
Quotes By EVA MARIE SAINT
(On Hitchcock) “Hitchcock said to me, “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.” – Eva Marie Saint
(On working with Hitchcock) “There were six of us blondes (his leading ladies), and it’s like we were all married to the man at one time or another. And we all have a different take on him.” – Eva Marie Saint
(On Cary Grant) “Adorable! A dear man and funny. Probably the most elegant man I’ve ever worked with–or even met.” – Eva Marie Saint
“The longer you live, the smarter you get because you’ve been around. You’ve seen things. You’ve gone through different emotional experiences in your own life, and hopefully, you understand things better. And that makes you a better actress.” – Eva Marie Saint
The longer you live, I believe, you learn so much about life that you have more to give.” – Eva Marie Saint
“It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.” – Eva Marie Saint
(On Marlon Brando) “What was a little scary about him, which worked for me in the movie, was his perception of people that was so keen. He could look at somebody or talk with them and hone into what that person was all about. And he would mention it about people around us. So sometimes I would sit there and think, “If he knows that about that person, he must know more about me than I know about myself.” It made me a little self-conscious, but I used that in the movie. He’d been out in the world and I had been at home protected, so I used that.” – Eva Marie Saint
“You know how to stay young? Go with the flow.” – Eva Marie Saint
“I want to show people that if you walk, if you eat the right things, if you don’t have stuff done to your face – that’s okay.” – Eva Marie Saint
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