FrameThrower · Actors · Eva Marie Saint
Eva Marie Saint
3 films · 391 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1959–2014
Born 4 July 1924 · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Eva Marie Saint is an American retired actress who has starred in films, on Broadway, and on television in a career spanning seven decades, she's known for bringing emotional depth and complexity to her roles, in which she generally played women who appear fragile but have great inner strength. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama film "On the Waterfront" (1954), and later starred in the thriller film "North by Northwest" (1959), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Saint received Golden Globe and BAFTA award nominations for the drama film "A Hatful of Rain" (1957) and won an Emmy Award for the television miniseries People Like Us (1990).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 391 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1959–2014
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1955
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie1990
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres2001
- Theatre World Award1954
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 391 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Eva takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 54% of their frames are night, 53% low key — the look of the work Eva takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 391 frames from Eva Marie Saint's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.