Eva Marie Saint, Oscar Winner, Dead at 102

Actress Eva Marie Saint died at the age of 102, the New York Times confirmed. She died of natural causes in her Los Angeles home. Saint won an Oscar for her debut film performance in On the Waterfront, with Marlon Brando, in 1955. She also starred opposite Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest. “I was hoping I wouldn’t step on his feet,” she told Vanity Fair in 2014. “That was the scene on the train and we had to move like the train was moving and there was a still man taking photos while we were doing the scene. He was up about 12 or 15 steps, he got so involved in the kissing scene he fell off the ladder. He didn’t hurt himself so we can laugh about it. So then we had to do it again, which wasn’t bad.”

At the time of her death, she was the oldest living Oscar winner. She returned to the Oscars stage in 2018 to present the award for Best Costume Design and joked about her longstanding career in Hollywood. “I just realized I’m older than the Academy. I’m very proud of that,” she quipped. She was married to her husband, Jeffrey Hayden, for 65 years; he died in 2016, and she is survived by her two children, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.