Eva Marie Saint Biography

Fast Facts

• Won lifetime achievement awards from the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival in 1999 and the Savannah Film and Video Festival in 2000
• Inducted to Bethlehem Central High School's Hall of Fame in 2006
• While attending Bowling Green State University, she joined the Delta Gamma sorority
• In the Golden Age of television and on the silver screen, her acting was more realistic than that of many of her colleagues
• Alfred Hitchcock suggested that she have her cut her hair for her femme fatale role in "North by Northwest․"
• Has campaigned for laws that prohibit the use of cell phones while driving
• While attending Bowling Green State University, she served as secretary of the school's student government and became an active member of the Theta Alpha Phi honorary theater fraternity
• Gave birth only 2 days after accepting her best supporting actress Oscar for "On the Waterfront․"
• Was one of the original singing Bonnie Maids used in live commercials in 1949