RIP Eva Marie Saint
Actress Eva Marie Saint has died at 102. By all accounts, she had a good life: married to one man, two children, and a productive career:
Her publicist, Jeff Sanderson, said she died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles, surrounded by family and loved ones.
A regal-looking blonde who ricocheted from playing sultry spies to Southern belles and Superman’s stepmother, Saint made her motion picture debut opposite Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan’s “On the Waterfront” (1954). …
Saint married director-producer Jeffrey Hayden in 1951, and the couple stayed together for 65 years until his death in 2016. They had two children. Saint had made it clear that family was more important to her than her career.
“I had an agent once who wanted me to make many more movies,” she told CBS’ “Sunday Morning” in 2014. “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.'”
I guess so.
For me, this was Saint’s most memorable role:
So smooth, it draws a smile.
A pretty girl, a good girl, a talented lady, a life well lived.
Great scene. “I never discuss love on an empty stomach.” (You’re stomach!)
I’ve seen To Catch a Thief about 4 times. Not my most favorite Hitchcock, though almost all of them are good. However, the last time I saw TCAT, I was amazed at how sexually charged the early scenes between Grant and Kelly were. How did I miss that previously? (I am something of a junkie for murder, mystery and intrigue; and was likely focused on that.) The entendres are a little subtle, but not that subtle.
We used to watch NbyNW when it came on the 4:30 Movie back in the 60s and 70s. More recently I’ve watched it on DVD. I think they must have cut out some of the more sultry parts back in the day… One of my favorites, though. Thanks for the info, Neo.
Saint had a publicist at age 102! Why??
Well 102 is a good run and NbNW is a worthy memorable movie
RiP
A few days ago I happened to watch Addie Counts’ reaction video to NxNW.
–“I didn’t know NORTH BY NORTHWEST was THIS GOOD! First Time Watching | Movie Reaction!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhrkMr2K1vE
No small part of the fun of reaction videos is enjoying the recognition of younger viewers that some of those old movies were good’uns.
I see N by NW at least a couple of times a year on TCM. Also Grand Prix, another Eva Marie Saint movie. I prefer the old non-DEI movies and have TCM on as audio wall paper a lot.
Eva Marie Saint also appeared with co-star Paul Newman in the ‘60’s classic “Exodus.”
Myself, I never got to absorb Leon Uris’ greatest novel. But many here might enjoy seeing it again. FREE on Pluto TV, online and via the app — all free! Classic score, too. I’m watching now. I’m sure it’s on rotation a while, if not the rest of the month.
https://pluto.tv/us/watch/live-tv/category/movies-us/#29208
Too many movies this month are horror themed. That’s a Hollywood fake horror. Not the real pains and violence of a nation’s birth and independence,
Back in the 2010s I commented at Althouse. She posted a topic:
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“If everybody could love Alfred Hitchcock, I think it would be a better world.”
Odd intro, by Cat Stevens (in 1976), to “Peace Train.” (September 3, 2012)
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2012/09/if-everybody-could-love-alfred.html
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I posted a reply as creeley23 which Dame Althouse praised:
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IN THE COMMENTS: Now, this is smart, from creeley23:
I take Stevens’ Hitchcock remark before “Peace Train” as a reference to the train-into-the-tunnel ending of North By Northwest, i.e. it was a coded reference to the “make love, not war” sentiment of the time.
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Since then all direct references to Stevens’ remark in 1976 have been voided due to “copyright reasons.”
I stand by my call.
If viewers didn’t grasp Hitchcock’s transition from Cary’s grabbing Eva’s wrists to prevent her from falling to hoisting her into the sealed train compartment from which to make love, then the train ostentatiously entering the tunnel…
Well, that’s not my problem.
They don’t make ’em like that anymore.