Oscar-Winning Hollywood Legend Passed Away at 102
Saint won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role, making her an Oscar winner with her very first feature film.
On the Waterfront became one of the most celebrated movies of its era. The film also won Best Picture, while Brando received the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Becoming a Hitchcock Leading Lady
Five years later, Saint took on another role that would become one of the most famous of her career.
She starred alongside Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 thriller North by Northwest.
Saint played the mysterious Eve Kendall, who becomes involved with Grant’s character as he is pulled into a dangerous case of mistaken identity.
The movie included several scenes that became classics, including the famous crop-duster sequence and the dramatic finale at Mount Rushmore.
