{"id":21368,"date":"2012-04-04T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=21368"},"modified":"2012-04-03T12:15:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T16:15:50","slug":"north-by-northwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=21368","title":{"rendered":"Winner by a Nose: Eva Marie Saint Remembers North by Northwest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Eva<\/a>She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress her first time on screen, holding her own\u00a0opposite Marlon Brando<\/a> in On the Waterfront.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s shown her versatility in all genres from comedies (The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming) to period dramas (Raintree County), westerns (The Stalking Moon) to action films (Grand Prix), war thrillers (36 Hours) to superhero outings (Superman Returns).<\/p>\n

And, most famously, she was the spy gal who dangled from George Washington\u2019s nose with Cary Grant<\/a> in Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s classic North by Northwest.<\/p>\n

She is, of course, Eva Marie Saint<\/a>. Eighty-seven years young (and looking twenty years younger) and married to TV director Jeffrey Hayden for 61 years, the Newark, New Jersey-born actress has arrived in Philadelphia for a screening of North by Northwest as part of the Turner Classic Movies \u201cRoad to Hollywood\u201d bandwagon to promote the TCM Film Festival<\/a>. Despite the accessibility\u00a0of North by Northwest<\/a> everywhere, she packed them in at the Prince Music Theater, where scores of movie lovers came to see the film on a big screen and hear the actress\u2019s takes on working with Hitch and the rest of her career.<\/p>\n

Movie FanFare got the goods on the evening, as well as an opportunity to speak with Ms. Saint the next morning about a variety of movie-related subjects before she and TCM host Ben Mankiewicz headed back home to Los Angeles. Here are some of the highlights of the dual interview sessions.<\/p>\n

MovieFanFare: Did you always want to be an actress?<\/p>\n

Eva Marie Saint: I always wanted to be an actress, except in the early years I wanted to be a third grade teacher. I changed my major. \u00a0My mother was a teacher.<\/p>\n

MFF: On your first film, you knocked it out of the park, taking home an Oscar for your role of Edie Doyle, the sister of a slain dockworker, who gets romantically involved with another dockworker, Terry Malloy, played by Marlon Brando. What do you remember about the experience of being on a movie set the first time, especially with director Elia Kazan<\/a> and Brando?<\/p>\n

EMS:\u00a0 Sam Spiegel was the producer, and when Kazan wasn\u2019t around\u2014I didn\u2019t know what a producer did, it was my first film. Spiegel would come up to me with a makeup man and lipstick and a brush and he made the corners of my lips go up with lipstick.\u00a0 So I thought: \u201cThis is what the producer does!\u201d Kazan never saw him do it, and would have never had allowed him to do it.\u00a0 Spiegel probably figured that when he could get on the set, he wanted to do something, and he picked on me and my lovely lips.<\/p>\n

MFF: How about Brando. Were you intimidated by him?<\/p>\n

EMS: I am intimidated to work with artists, to work with musicians and writers. But I am never intimidated by actors. We have a professional bond. And I wasn\u2019t intimidated by Marlon because he was an actor. He was a nice fellow and a handsome fellow and a sexy fellow.<\/p>\n

MFF: You had studied at the Actors Studio where Brando and Kazan came from. What was Kazan like on the set?<\/p>\n

EMS:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Kazan was usually there, looking through the camera. Now you look at the monitor. Kazan was always looking though the camera and telling the actors to look right there and his presence was so strong, but it was like teamwork. I missed that with directors. It was fun to watch him boss away. When he was directing the scene, you were told where to sit. And we listened. I was from the Actors Studi,o and we did what we were told. But there some actors who would say, \u2018\u2018I want to sit there.\u201d<\/p>\n

MFF: What do you recall about winning the Academy Award at the age of 30 for your first screen role?<\/p>\n

EMS: We were in New York in those days. You had people in New York who made movies and people in Hollywood (who made movies), and there was jealousy between the two. It would go back and forth and it wasn\u2019t like it is now. So that was an exciting evening, because none of us thought we would win. The film was in black and white. The cinematographer (Boris Kauffman) won and other awards were given out. Jeff (husband Hayden) said, \u201cWhen they call your name, don\u2019t rush up on that stage.\u201d I started to get up. His hand was on my thigh. He said count to ten. Ten days later I had a baby and he didn\u2019t want me to lose the baby. \u00a0It was a pretty heavy time, Oscar and a baby.<\/p>\n

MFF: Is there anything you learned while doing your first film that stayed with you?<\/p>\n

EMS: I learned that this is your job, this is an exciting job, this is what you want to do, you\u2019re working with an incredible script, director, the other actors and you do the best you can. You\u2019re never thinking beyond that day\u2019s work\u2014ever!<\/p>\n

MFF: After Waterfront, you did some steady television and co-starred in such films as That Certain Feeling with Bob Hope, Raintree County with Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift and A Hatful of Rain for Fred Zinnemann with Don Murray and Anthony Franciosca. Do you think any of these impressed Alfred Hitchcock<\/a> enough to lead him to cast you as Eve Kendall in North by Northwest?<\/p>\n

EMS: Well, I don\u2019t see how he could see me as Eve Kendall from On the Waterfront. \u00a0Maybe because I had beautiful coiffed hair. He may have seen me in That Certain Feeling, so maybe he could see me this way. I dance and I\u2019m drunk. It\u2019s a fun part–I had these bright red, oversized pajamas and I am playing the ukulele\u2014it sounds awful! And Bob Hope and I are jumping around. It was so much fun. I think he may have seen me in it.<\/p>\n

MFF: Do you remember feeling different about taking on the role of Eve Kendall as opposed to Edie Doyle?<\/p>\n

EMS: I am sure it was different. I had more experience. It was a completely different role than On the Waterfront. I was a sexy spy lady. Who doesn\u2019t want to be a sexy spy lady? \u00a0I liked the idea. I didn\u2019t get as much direction from Mr. Hitchcock as I did from Mr. Kazan, but he was interested in how the spy lady dressed. Now, that may sound strange, but it helped me develop the character. He cared about the hair and the makeup and the shoes and certainly the dresses. He felt it was important how the spy lady should look, and that helped me.<\/p>\n

MFF: But didn\u2019t the studio furnish the costumes?<\/p>\n

EMS:\u00a0 \u00a0He didn\u2019t like the clothes (the studio provided) and thought they were poorly designed. He said \u201cI\u2019d like to take you to Bergdorf Goodman and take a tour.\u201d \u00a0He was sitting there. He didn\u2019t pick out anything. He said, \u201cGet whatever you like.\u201d That\u2019s why I called him my \u201cSugar Daddy\u201d after that.\u00a0 I told him \u201cI\u2019d like to wear he black dress,\u201d and he said \u201cWrap it up for Miss Saint.\u201d<\/p>\n

MFF: Were you always the choice for the role?<\/p>\n

EMS: Alfred Hitchcock insisted on me, although MGM wanted Cyd Charisse and Cary Grant wanted Sophia Loren.<\/p>\n

MFF: There have been stories over the years that James Stewart was originally cast in the Cary Grant role.<\/p>\n

EMS: Jimmy Stewart really wanted the role in North by Northwest. He helped develop it with Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman (the screenwriter). Then Stewart was at Columbia, and told Hitchcock he needed to know whether they were going to make the movie because he was going to make a film with Kim Novak (Bell, Book and Candle). Hitchcock said he wasn\u2019t sure, so Stewart took the role. It\u2019s a brutal business.<\/p>\n

MFF: What were your impressions of Cary Grant?<\/p>\n

EMS:\u00a0 He was so funny. \u00a0Cary Grant was wonderful. Most of us from On the Waterfront were from the Actors Studio, but Cary Grant was from the circus. In his early movies you could see the physical stuff, so the circus was all right.<\/p>\n

MFF: What do you remember about Alfred Hitchcock on the set of North by Northwest?<\/p>\n

EMS: Hitchcock was editing while making the picture. It was all storyboarded and he was cutting it in his head. When he watched the dailies, he would turn the sound off. He wanted to make sure the actors were emoting and watching the expressions, and he wanted to make sure they made sense and they said what he wanted the scene to say. It was like the film The Artist. Wasn\u2019t it wonderful? I saw it twice.\u00a0 \u00a0They turn off the sound to see how it plays without the dialogue.<\/p>\n

MFF: Do you think he enjoyed the pre-production process more?<\/p>\n

EMS: Maybe that\u2019s why he didn\u2019t direct that much on the set. When you were on one of his sets, he would be more suggestive.<\/p>\n

MFF: Much has been made of Hitchcock\u2019s obsession with his lead actresses, particularly the blondes\u2014you, Grace Kelly, Tippi Hedren, Kim Novak, Janet Leigh. Do you believe he was obsessed with you?<\/p>\n

EMS: How can you be obsessed with blondes in general? We\u2019re all different. Hitchcock liked blondes, but we were all different. We had different personal lives. \u00a0I can\u2019t say he had the hots for all of us.<\/p>\n

MFF: Would you say you were impressed with Alfred Hitchcock?<\/p>\n

EMS: I was impressed with Hitchcock. The way he directed. I was also impressed he had his bacon imported from Denmark.<\/p>\n

MFF: Can you recall your reaction when you saw North by Northwest for the first time?<\/p>\n

EMS:\u00a0 \u00a0Yes. I went to New York with my husband and at the very end, the scene with the train goes through the tunnel, I said to my husband, \u201cThe train going through the tunnel, that\u2019s a little Freudian, isn\u2019t it?\u201d And Jeff said, \u201cYou got it, babe. Yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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