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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Eva Marie Saint to Receive Life Achievement Award at Ojai Film Festival Sunday, November 3

(OJAI, CA – October 11, 2019) Eva Marie Saint is that rare phenomenon, an actress whose career in films, television and stage spans more than 70 years. She began her distinguished film career opposite Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954), for which she received an Academy Award. She went on to star in several other memorable movies, including North by Northwest (1959), A Hatful of Rain (1957), That Certain Feeling (1956), Raintree County (1957), Exodus (1960), All Fall Down (1962), 36 Hours (1964), The Sandpiper (1965), The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming! (1966), Grand Prix (1966), The Stalking Moon (1968), Loving (1970), Nothing In Common (1986) and I Dreamed Of Africa (2000). Her recent films include Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), Don’t Come Knocking (2005), Superman Returns (2006) and Winter’s Tale (2014) starring Colin Farrell. She was nominated for an Emmy five times, winning it for the miniseries People Like Us (1990).

“Eva Marie Saint’s stellar seven-decade career has made a huge impact on women in film and television today,” Women In Film Board Member Ilene Kahn Power said. The names of her leading men read like a galaxy: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, Richard Burton, Warren Beatty, James Garner, Jason Robards, George C. Scott, Burt Lancaster and Tom Hanks, with whom she co-starred in Nothing in Common.

A short biography of Ms. Saint’s professional life will screen on Saturday, November 9 at 4 pm as part of the Women in Film Legacy Series.

Film Screening:

North by Northwest (1959) is an American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The screenplay was by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write “the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures.” North by Northwest is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization trying to prevent him from blocking their plan to smuggle out microfilm which contains government secrets.

FACT SHEET

WHO: legendary actress Eva Marie Saint WHAT: North by Northwest screening and reception; Women in Film Legacy Bio WHEN: Sunday, November 3, 7 pm; Saturday, November 9 at 4 (WIF) WHERE: Ojai Art Center, 113 S Montgomery St, Ojai, CA 93023 TICKETS: $12 ($8 Senior/Student/Active Military) available at https://ojaifilmfestival.com/tickets-2019/

Images

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