Known for Acting
Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an American retired actress who has starred in films, on Broadway, and on television in a career spanning seven decades, she's known for bringing emotional depth and complexity to her roles, in which she generally played women who appear fragile but have great inner strength. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama film "On the Waterfront" (1954), and later starred in the thriller film "North by Northwest" (1959), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Saint received Golden Globe and BAFTA award nominations for the drama film "A Hatful of Rain" (1957) and won an Emmy Award for the television miniseries People Like Us (1990). Her most notable subsequent movies included "Raintree County" (1957), Otto Preminger’s "Exodus" (1960), Vincente Minnelli’s "The Sandpiper" (1965), the Cold War comedy "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!" (1966), and the racing film "Grand Prix" (1966), in which she costarred with James Garner.
Born
July 4, 1924 (age 102)
Birthplace
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Filmography
68 films, 26 shows


Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who lived through it, creating a first-hand archive of personal backstage stories and memories. The new documentary is the long-awaited sequel to late filmmaker Rick McKay’s award-winning 2003 film Broadway: The Golden Age, continuing the saga into the '60s and '70s and spotlighting beloved classic Broadway shows including Once Upon a Mattress, Bye Bye Birdie, Barefoot in the Park, Pippin, A Chorus Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Chicago, and 42nd Street. Featuring a galaxy of stars including Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Glenn Close, André De Shields, Jane Fonda, Robert Goulet, Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, and many more, the film also includes rare archival photos and never-before-seen footage both onstage and off.


Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen
2016 · 1h
country: Germany
Documentary about Alfred Hitchcocks infatuation with blondes.


Robert Osborne's 20th Anniversary Tribute
2015 · 47m
country: United States
Friends and family surprise Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne at the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival with a tribute to his twenty years with the network.


Eva Marie Saint: Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival
2014 · 59m
country: United States
Academy Award-winning actress Eva Marie Saint discusses her life and career at the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival.


Winter's Tale
2014 · 1h 58m
country: United States
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
Fred Zinnemann - Der Mann, der 'High Noon' machte
Fred Zinnemann - Der Mann, der 'High Noon' machte
2007 · 57m
country: Germany
Documentary about the Austrian director Fred Zinnemann.


Superman Returns
2006 · 2h 34m
country: United States
Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.


Pushing the Limit: The Making of Grand Prix
2006 · 29m
country: United States
Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger
Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger
2006 · 1h
country: Germany
German Documentary about the Austrian-American Movie Director Otto Preminger.


Don't Come Knocking
2005 · 2h 3m
country: France
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...


Because of Winn-Dixie
2005 · 1h 46m
country: United States
A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The bond between the girl and her special companion brings together the people in a small Florida town and heals her own troubled relationship with her father.
Hollywood Legenden
Hollywood Legenden
2004 · 2h
country: Germany
Documentary about Hollywood.


Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003 · 1h 51m
country: United States
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.


Open House
2003 · 1h 36m
country: United States
To make ends meet in this romantic drama, a devoted wife and mom takes in boarders and, while starting her life over, falls for the most unlikely of men, a warm-hearted blue-collar worker, in this adaptation of Elizabeth Berg's bestselling book.


Papa's Angels
2000 · 1h 23m
country: Unknown
Arkansas furniture maker Grins Jenkins is a cheerful man and loving father to his five kids, as well as the life of every party in their small town. When his wife Sharon, who used to be the 'bad cop', slowly dies of TBC, so does Grins' sense of fun. The kids refuse to keep mourning forever, but dad practically retires from the world and turns his back, opposing them enjoying life again. Then Christmastide arrives, and son Alvin refuses to let his kid brother's dream be spoiled.


Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'
2000 · 40m
country: United States
Hosted by Eva Marie Saint, the film's leading lady, this 40-minute documentary of Alfred Hitchcock's only M-G-M film combines interviews (Martin Landau, Patricia Hitchcock, production designer Robert F. Boyle and screenwriter Ernest Lehman), movie clips and behind the scenes photos to make for a fascinating look at one of the silver screen's glowing gems. For fans of North by Northwest (1959) and Hitchcock aficionados, this is a must-see treat.


I Dreamed of Africa
2000 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Inspired by the true story of indomitable Kuki Gallmann, the film tells of a beautiful and inquisitive woman who had the courage to escape from her comfortable yet monotonous life in Italy to start anew in the African wilderness with her son, Emanuele, and her new husband, Paolo. Gallmann faces great danger there but eventually becomes a celebrated conservationist.


Jackie's Back!
1999 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A British documentarian profiles washed-up diva Jackie Washington as she prepares for her comeback concert.
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Paying homage to two of Hollywood's central icons, the film creates an unparalleled portrait of two very different personalities amidst the demise of the studio system.


Time to Say Goodbye?
1997 · 1h 31m
country: Unknown
A doctor suffering from Alzheimer's wishes to end his life, causing a severe rift in the family, with each side convinced they have the father's best interests at heart.
After Jimmy
After Jimmy
1996 · 1h 39m
country: United States
This is a story of Jimmy, a high school senior, who is struggling with his school life, family pressures, future choices. When it becomes too much, Jimmy kills himself.
Mariette in Ecstasy
Mariette in Ecstasy
1996 · 1h 41m
country: United States
In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, rural upstate New York just after the turn of the century. At summer's end, when she is 17, Mariette Baptiste, educated daughter of the local doctor, enters the cloistered convent of Our Lady of the Afflictions as a postulant. Her religious fervor, understated but determined, makes an impact on the small community of nuns whose days and nights are measured in a round of prayer and farm work changing only with the seasons. Their ordered life is disrupted, however, as Mariette begins to fall into a series of trances from which she awakens with stigmata, which heal as spontaneously as they appear. The feelings of skepticism, jealousy and adoration evoked in the nuns, Mariette's own response and that of the Mother Superior are delicately, indelibly presented.
Corwin
Corwin
1996 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Biography of Norman Corwin, the great writer, producer and director of the Golden Age of Radio. Actors in his radio plays included Orson Welles, Jimmy Stewart, Charles Laughton, Danny Kaye, Paul Robeson and Judy Garland.


My Antonia
1995 · 1h 40m
country: United States
After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.


Kiss of a Killer
1993 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A rapist stalks a witness endangered by the secret life she has created to escape her mother.


Palomino
1991 · 1h 35m
country: United States
After the break up of her marriage, photographer Samantha Taylor retreats to the sanctuary of friend Caroline Lord's California ranch. Samantha falls in love with ranch hand Tate Jordan, and they share a deep and passionate love until Tate finds out that Samantha's ex-husband is popular and wealthy news anchor Warren Taylor. Ashamed he leaves the ranch, Samantha is heartbroken. Samantha breaks her back in an accident and is paralysed, and must learn how to walk - and ride - again. Caroline Lord tragically dies but leaves her ranch to Samantha, who turns it into a riding school for paralysed children. Through this enterprise, she begins to heal from the pain of Tate's desertion, the loss of her friend and her own paralysis. Tate returns to the ranch after hearing of Caroline's death and finds Samantha there. Can they both overcome their own demons and learn to love each other again??


People Like Us
1990 · 3h 20m
country: Unknown
When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to use his powerful position to enable his own form of justice.


Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
1990 · 3h
country: France
The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.


I'll Be Home for Christmas
1988 · 1h 36m
country: Unknown
The Bundy family try to have a good family Christmas, despite World War II.


Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
1988 · 55m
country: United States
Called "the first lady of the silent screen," Lillian Gish was the archetypal silent film heroine — the delicate damsel in distress, stranded on a swift-moving ice floe, cowering before a sadistic brute. The film showcases generous footage of her most memorable performances. In this Emmy-award winning documentary, the celebrated actress reflects on her life and work spanning the 20th century, particularly her years as D.W. Griffith's favorite leading lady and collaborator.


Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988 · 59m
country: United States
A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and interviews with his friends and co-workers.


Breaking Home Ties
1987 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the lessons in becoming a man. While his family must deal with a life threatening illness.


Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987 · 2h
country: United States
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.


The Last Days of Patton
1986 · 2h 26m
country: United States
Gen. George S. Patton now works a desk job for the U.S. military after World War II. In the midst of dealing with the difficulty of adapting to his dramatic change of lifestyle, Patton is involved in an auto wreck that leaves him in critical condition. While his body fails him, Patton introspectively reminisces about his relationship with his spouse, Beatrice; his childhood; and his days on the WWI battlefields.


Nothing in Common
1986 · 1h 58m
country: United States
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.


Love Leads the Way: A True Story
1984 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Based on the true story of Morris Frank and the first U.S. Seeing Eye Dog, Buddy.


Jane Doe
1983 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A young amnesiac who was left for dead following a brutal assault is now being stalked by her assailant who wants to finish the job before she can remember the circumstances of the crime.


Malibu
1983 · 3h 10m
country: United States
A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people living in the community.


Splendor in the Grass
1981 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Two teenagers, in love in pre-Depression Kansas, cope with parental pressure and the strict sexual mores of the day.


The Best Little Girl in the World
1981 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressures.


The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
1980 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
Egyptologist Robin Ellis and American reporter Eva Marie Saint uncover King Tut's burial site but wealthy profiteer Raymond Burr tries to make sure that the valuable artifacts in its chambers never leave the country.


When Hell Was in Session
1979 · 1h 38m
country: United States
This film describes Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton's 7-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war. Held in numerous, brutal POW camps, he faced starvation, torture and terrible living conditions brought on by his North Vietnamese captors in an effort to keep communication alive between the prisoners. His wife, Jane, is also arranging a POW wives league in the U.S. in order to popularize their plight.


A Christmas to Remember
1978 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A city-bred grandson moves to his grandparents' farm during the Great Depression and grows up enough under their tough care to help his grandfather deliver a surprise gift on Christmas Eve to their community church with the help of a phantom stranger.


Taxi!!
1978 · 1h
country: Unknown
Taxi!! is a television movie that debuted on the NBC television network as a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, consisting of a conversation between a taxi driver (Martin Sheen) and his passenger (Eva Marie Saint).


The Macahans
1976 · 2h 30m
country: United States
Zeb Macahan, a pioneering westerner, helps move his brother's family to the wild west. They run into several obstacles including the breakout of the Civil War. This sends the father back to fight in the war and leaves the family to move on ahead.


The First Woman President
1974 · 1h
country: United States
This acclaimed television drama tells the story of Edith Wilson, second wife of President Woodrow Wilson. It deals specifically with how, after his severe stroke in 1919, she played an influential role in his administration. For the remainder of his presidency, she managed his staff and determined which communication and matters of state were important enough to bring to her husband's attention. Thus, she came to be known as "the first woman president."


Cancel My Reservation
1972 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the lovely Eva Marie Saint, to solve a series of murders that has Bob as the prime suspect.


Loving
1970 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Grace, and also between his career as a successful illustrator and his feeling that he might still produce something worthwhile.


The Stalking Moon
1968 · 1h 49m
country: United States
While moving a group of Apaches to a Native American reservation in Arizona, an American scout named Sam Varner is surprised to find a white woman, Sarah Carver, living with the tribe. When Sam learns that she was taken captive by an Indian named Salvaje ten years ago, he attempts to escort Sarah and her half-Native American son to his home in New Mexico. However, it soon becomes clear that Salvaje is hot on their trail.


Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions
1966 · 13m
country: United States
A short making of feature about the 1966 John Frankenheimer movie Grande Prix


Grand Prix
1966 · 2h 56m
country: United States
The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a series of races, American wheelman Pete Aron is dropped by his sponsor. Refusing to quit, he joins a Japanese racing team. While juggling his career with a torrid love affair involving an ex-teammate's wife, Pete must also contend with Jean-Pierre Sarti, a French contestant who has previously won two world titles.


The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
1966 · 2h 6m
country: United States
When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.


The Sandpiper
1965 · 1h 57m
country: United States
A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.


A Statue for "The Sandpiper"
1965 · 5m
country: United States
Promotional short for the film "The Sandpiper".


Carol for Another Christmas
1964 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist Daniel Grudge, long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who lead him to reconsider his attitude toward his fellow man.


36 Hours
1964 · 1h 55m
country: United States
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.


All Fall Down
1962 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Ralph and Annabell Willart are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for-nothing son Berry-Berry. When Berry-Berry begins yet another meaningless love affair, this time with an older woman named Echo O’Brien, he really gets his parents at each others’ throats.


Exodus
1960 · 3h 28m
country: United States
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.


North by Northwest
1959 · 2h 17m
country: United States
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.


Raintree County
1957 · 3h 8m
country: United States
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.


Operation Raintree
1957 · 5m
country: Unknown
MGM short that looks at the behind the scenes production of Raintree County.


A Hatful of Rain
1957 · 1h 49m
country: United States
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.


That Certain Feeling
1956 · 1h 43m
country: United States
When Larry Larkin's comic strip needs some freshening up, he calls in ghost-writer Francis X. Dignan to help him with the strip. Things get complicated when Francis rekindles his love for his ex-wife, who happens to be Larkin's secretary and soon-to-be wife.


Our Town
1955 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors. This musicalization of Thornton Wilder's classic play stars Frank Sinatra, who introduces the song, "Love and Marriage," which would go on to be immortalized as the theme song to the sitcom "Married with Children."
Middle of the Night
Middle of the Night
1954 · 59m
country: Unknown
A young divorcée becomes involved with her widowed boss.


On the Waterfront
1954 · 1h 48m
country: United States
A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.
The Trip to Bountiful
The Trip to Bountiful
1953 · 1h
country: Unknown
A woman has to live with a daughter in law who hates her and a son who does not dare take her side. While the unhappy family lives in a Houston apartment, Carrie Watts dreams of returning to Bountiful, where she was raised.


The Man Who Had Influence
1950 · 59m
country: Unknown
Business mogul's son David Grant uses his father's power to extricate himself from problems - until implication in a woman's death tests David's willingness to avoid responsibility.