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00:11Eva Marie Saint is a film, stage, and television actress from the United States.
00:16She's won an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award over her 75-year career
00:20and has been nominated for the Golden Globes and two British Academy Film Awards.
00:25She became the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award winner
00:29and one of the last remaining stars from Hollywood's golden age of cinema
00:33upon the death of Olivia de Havilland in 2020.
00:37Among her early credits is her portrayal as Thelma in Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful,
00:42which was initially shown on NBC before being transformed into the Tony Award-winning play of the same name.
00:50She got an Outer Critics Circle Award for her portrayal in the theatrical adaptation.
00:54She made her cinematic debut opposite Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront.
01:01The film, which won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture,
01:05garnered her an Academy Award nod for Best Supporting Actress
01:08and a BAFTA nomination for Most Promising Newcomer.
01:12It's widely regarded as one of the best and most important films ever made,
01:16having established her as an instant celebrity.
01:18I grab a book and sit down, even if I've read it before,
01:26and just read something to clear my mind.
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01:40Her full name is Eva Marie Saint, but is also known as Eva.
01:44She was born July 4, 1924, in Newark, New Jersey, making her 97 at the time of this production.
01:55She stands 5 feet 4 inches tall.
02:01Eva's been inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame two times.
02:04She has a star for Motion Pictures,
02:06and later she was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television.
02:09In 1954, Eva won the Oscar award for her role in On the Waterfront,
02:15and after two days, she gave birth to her son, Daryl.
02:19While Eva was in high school, she was also a cheerleader.
02:23Eva is one of those six actresses that have been pregnant at the time of winning an Academy Award.
02:28The other five include Natalie Portman,
02:34Rachel Weiss,
02:37Catherine Zeta-Jones,
02:40Meryl Streep,
02:42and Patricia O'Neill.
02:44Eva is the 41st actress to win an Academy Award.
02:48Her favorite film is A Day for Night, which was released back in 1973.
02:53She's campaigned to ban mobile phone usage by motorists.
02:58On October 28, 1951,
03:01St. married producer and director Jeffrey Hayden.
03:04They were married in 1955 and have two children together,
03:08Daryl Hayden and Lorette Hayden.
03:11Daryl was born two days after she was awarded an Academy Award for On the Waterfront.
03:16They were married for 65 years until Hayden died at the age of 90 on December 24, 2016.
03:22And we were married 65 years and he died two years ago.
03:33That was my lucky break in life.
03:36She was the daughter of John Meryl St. and Eva Marie St.
03:39The actress attended Bethlehem Central High School in New York's Del Mar neighborhood.
03:45Her father worked for B.F. Goodrich as a credit manager.
03:48Lydia Gordon and John Quincy St. were Eva's paternal grandparents.
03:51Both were born in Indiana and John passed away in 1927.
03:56Lydia, on the other hand, was born in 1852 and passed away in 1902.
04:01Adelaide Louise St. was Eva's older sister.
04:05Eva graduated from high school in 1942.
04:09The actress was later honored into Bethlehem Central High School's Hall of Fame in 2006.
04:14Eva attended Bowling Green State University and majored in acting.
04:19Additionally, she became a member of Delta Gamma Sorority and appeared in a performance of Personal Appearance.
04:24Allow me to inform you that there's an Eva-themed theater on the Bowling Green State University campus.
04:31This well-known actress was an active member of Theta Alpha Phi, the theater honorary fraternity.
04:37And in 1944, she served as the student council's record keeper.
04:42Eva originally desired to follow in her mother's footsteps and become a teacher.
04:46Her life, however, changed dramatically during her second year at Bowling Green.
04:50The drama department's chair advised that she audition for a play at a Delta Gamma sorority banquet.
04:58St.'s television career began as an NBC page in 1946-1947.
05:04She featured on the live NBC television show Campus Hoopla.
05:08Her performances on this show are captured on Rare Kinescope,
05:11and the Library of Congress has audio recordings of these telecasts.
05:15She also appeared on NBC in 1949 in Bonnie Maid's Versatile Varieties as one of the first singing Bonnie Maids featured in live ads.
05:26She was featured in a 1947 Life magazine special on television,
05:30as well as a 1949 major life piece on her as a struggling actress eking out a living in New York City.
05:38Sane continued to earn a living in the late 1940s with considerable work in radio and television.
05:43She earned the Drama Critics Award in 1953 for her Broadway stage performance in Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful,
05:51among such great actresses as Lillian Gish and Jo Van Fleet.
05:56Sane received her first Emmy nomination in 1955 for Best Actress in a Single Performance on the Philco Television Playhouse
06:03for her portrayal of the Young Mistress of Middle-Aged E.G. Marshall in Patty Chayefsky's Middle of the Night.
06:11She received another Emmy nomination for the 1955 television musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Our Town.
06:18Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra appeared as co-stars.
06:22Her career in recognition in television shows was so great that one rather exaggerated primal TV reviewer nicknamed her the Helen Hayes of Television.
06:30Since 2000, Eva has appeared in several TV specials and documentaries.
06:37She also voiced the Nickelodeon animated series known as The Legend of Korra.
06:42In September 2012, she was cast as the adult Willa in the film adaptation of Mark Halprin's novel Winter's Tale.
06:49And in 2014, Eva appeared in the film Winter's Tale.
06:53Eva has appeared in at least 20 movies during her career.
06:56Sane most recently appeared at the 2018 Academy Awards Ceremonies at the age of 93 to present the award for costume design.
07:06When she entered the stage, she was greeted with a standing ovation.
07:10She's honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for Motion Pictures located at 6624 Hollywood Boulevard
07:18and another for television at 6730 Hollywood Boulevard.
07:23A president that I voted for wins.
07:28I would like to be at inauguration.
07:32Is that too political?
07:34Eva has mainly accumulated her net worth from her films.
07:37Moreover, she's earned money as a film producer
07:39and has added extra cash to her bank account through brand endorsement deals.
07:43Eva was paid $7,500 for appearing in On the Waterfront.
07:49In 1956, Eva earned $50,000 for appearing in That Certain Feelings.
07:55Eva made $100,000 for appearing in Raintree County in 1957.
08:01Saint's net worth is estimated to be $20 million.
08:05Eva has a house in New York.
08:07She currently lives in her duplex condo in West Los Angeles.
08:14Previously, Eva and her husband lived in a mansion in Mandeville Canyon.
08:19Eva Marie Saint likely has the following cars in her garage.
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