Biography
Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an American 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), direc...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
as Self
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 ...

Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen
2016
as Self
Documentary about Alfred Hitchcocks infatuation with blondes.

Robert Osborne's 20th Anniversary Tribute
2015
as Self
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 th...

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

Winter's Tale
2014
as Willa (Adult)
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.

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

Private Screenings: Robert Osborne
2014
as Self
TCM host Robert Osborne discusses his life and career with guest interviewer Alec Baldwin in commemoration of Osborne's 20 years with the network.

North by Northwest: One for the Ages
2009
as Self (archive footage)
A discussion of "North by Northwest" and its influence.
Fred Zinnemann - Der Mann, der 'High Noon' machte
2007
as Self
Documentary about the Austrian director Fred Zinnemann.

Superman Returns
2006
as Martha Kent
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...

Pushing the Limit: The Making of Grand Prix
2006
as Self
Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger
2006
as Herself
German Documentary about the Austrian-American Movie Director Otto Preminger.

Don't Come Knocking
2005
as Howard's Mother
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 y...

Because of Winn-Dixie
2005
as Miss Franny
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...
Hollywood Legenden
2004
as Self
Documentary about Hollywood.

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award...

Open House
2003
as Veronica Reynolds
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 m...

Papa's Angels
2000
as Dori "Grammy" Jenkins
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. W...

Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'
2000
as Self
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 Landa...

I Dreamed of Africa
2000
as Franca
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 co...

Jackie's Back!
1999
as Eva Marie Saint
A British documentarian profiles washed-up diva Jackie Washington as she prepares for her comeback concert.
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999
as Self (archive footage)
Paying homage to two of Hollywood's central icons, the film creates an unparalleled portrait of two very different personalities amidst the demise of ...

Time to Say Goodbye?
1997
as Ruth Klooster
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 ...
After Jimmy
1996
as Liz
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, Ji...
Mariette in Ecstasy
1996
as Mother Saint-Raphael
In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, ru...
Corwin
1996
as Self
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...

My Antonia
1995
as Emmaline Burden
After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.

Kiss of a Killer
1993
as Mrs. Wilson
A rapist stalks a witness endangered by the secret life she has created to escape her mother.

Palomino
1991
as Caroline Lord
After the break up of her marriage, photographer Samantha Taylor retreats to the sanctuary of friend Caroline Lord's California ranch. Samantha falls ...

People Like Us
1990
as Lil Van Degan Altemus
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 enab...

Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
1990
as Marilyn Klinghoffer
The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.

I'll Be Home for Christmas
1988
as Martha Bundy
The Bundy family try to have a good family Christmas, despite World War II.

Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
1988
as Narrator
Called "the first lady of the silent screen," Lillian Gish was the archetypal silent film heroine — the delicate damsel in distress, stranded on a swi...

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
1988
as Self
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
as Emma Wells
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 ...

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.

The Last Days of Patton
1986
as Mrs. Beatrice Ayer Patton
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 dr...

Nothing in Common
1986
as Lorraine Basner
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
as Mrs. Eustes
Based on the true story of Morris Frank and the first U.S. Seeing Eye Dog, Buddy.

Jane Doe
1983
as Addie Coleman
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 rem...

Malibu
1983
as Mary Wharton
A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people liv...

Splendor in the Grass
1981
as Mrs. Loomis
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
as Joanne Powell
Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self...

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
1980
as Sarah Morrissey
Egyptologist Robin Ellis and American reporter Eva Marie Saint uncover King Tut's burial site but wealthy profiteer Raymond Burr tries to make sure th...

When Hell Was in Session
1979
as Jane Denton
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,...

A Christmas to Remember
1978
as Emma Larson
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 de...

Taxi!!
1978
as Passenger
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 ...

The Macahans
1976
as Kate Macahan
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 C...

Cancel My Reservation
1972
as Sheila Bartlett
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 l...

Loving
1970
as Selma Wilson
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 il...

The Stalking Moon
1968
as Sarah Carver
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, Sa...

Grand Prix
1966
as Louise Frederickson
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 serie...
Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions
1966
as Self
A short making of feature about the 1966 John Frankenheimer movie Grande Prix

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
1966
as Elspeth Whittaker
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,...

The Sandpiper
1965
as Claire Hewitt
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
as Self
Promotional short for the film "The Sandpiper".

Carol for Another Christmas
1964
as WAVE Lt. Gibson
Daniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on C...

36 Hours
1964
as Anna Hedler
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 o...

All Fall Down
1962
as Echo O'Brien
Ralph and Annabell Willart are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for-nothing son Berry-Berry. When Berry-Berry ...

Exodus
1960
as Kitty Fremont
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyp...

North by Northwest
1959
as Eve Kendall
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

Raintree County
1957
as Nell Gaither
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susa...

Operation Raintree
1957
as Self
MGM short that looks at the behind the scenes production of Raintree County.

A Hatful of Rain
1957
as Celia Pope
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.

That Certain Feeling
1956
as Dunreath Henry
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 complicate...

Our Town
1955
as Emily Webb
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 de...
Middle of the Night
1954
as Betty
A young divorcée becomes involved with her widowed boss.

On the Waterfront
1954
as Edie Doyle
Terry Malloy is a kindhearted dockworker, and former boxer, who is tricked by his corrupt bosses into leading his friend to death. After falling in lo...
The Trip to Bountiful
1953
as Thelma
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 apartm...

The Man Who Had Influence
1950
as David's Cafe Guest (as Eve Marie Saint)
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 willi...