10/9/2026
The Green Room

Eva Marie Saint: the Hitchcock Blonde who outgrew the persona

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Eva Marie Saint: the Hitchcock Blonde who outgrew the persona
Her glacial poise in North By Northwest made her a cinematic icon, but films including On the Waterfront and Loving revealed great subtlety alongside the glamourEva Marie Saint dies aged 102Her best films ā€“ rankedHer life in picturesā€˜Iā€™m Eve Kendall. Iā€™m 26 and unmarried. Now you know everything.ā€Not quite everything. That is the famously succinct introduction given in a swaying dining car in a voice creamy with insinuation. Eve is speaking to Cary Grantā€™s fugitive ad man Roger Thornhill, wrongl
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