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Eva Marie Saint: Northwest
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For her performance as Edie Doyle, Saint won an Academy Award in her film debut. She was trained at the Actors Studio, like many of the cast members in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (AA), and gained experience on television and Broadway. Her Oscar-winning performance in such a high-profile film made her a well-known actress, but she did not become a major movie star. Often effective when cast in support of a strong male lead, Saint was never given a role of central importance, which hurt her career. Her delicate looks typecast her as a seemingly vulnerable, fragile woman with a surprising inner strength, as in A Hatful of Rain (1957) and All Fall Down (1962). Alfred Hitchcock gave Saint her best role after Waterfront when he cast her against type in North by Northwest (1959) as a cold, duplicitous woman who is changed by love.
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Eva is no stranger to Hollywood having been part of one of the greatest films of all time, Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. She began her career over 50 years ago and is about to become the adoptive mother to the one of the greatest super heroes of all time.
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In almost all her films, Saint has been presented as an outwardly vulnerable, fragile woman who possesses a surprising inner strength. This image has carried her through a series of roles as either a supportive wife (A Hatful of Rain; All Fall Down; 36 Hours; The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming; and Loving) or a determined, resourceful mother (The Stalking Moon, Loving, The Best Little Girl in the World, and The Macahans). Only Alfred Hitchcock employed the reverse of this image, casting Saint against type as an outwardly strong woman with a hidden vulnerability in North by Northwest.
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