ACTRESS EVE-MARIE SAINT DIES

NEW YORK, OCTOBER 7 /SRNA/ - American actress and Oscar winner Eve-Marie Saint has died at the age of 102, Variety magazine reported.

Eve-Marie Saint was born in 1924 in Newark, New Jersey, and began her television and film career in the 1940s.

She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1955 for her role in director Elia Kazan's 1954 film "On the Waterfront," in which she starred alongside Marlon Brando.

The film focuses on union violence and corruption among dockworkers and the owners of companies and ships, and provides a detailed account of widespread corruption, extortion, and racketeering in New Jersey.

"On the Waterfront" won over both audiences and critics alike. Of its 12 Oscar nominations, it won eight, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Brando, Best Supporting Actress for Saint, and Best Director.

The American Film Institute ranked it eighth on its 1997 list of the greatest American films of all time.

In 1959, Saint played one of her best-known roles as Eve Kendall in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller "North by Northwest" /1959/.

Saint also appeared in the films "Grand Prix" /1966/, "The Best Little Girl in the World" /1981/, "Nothing in Common" /1986/, and the 1990 miniseries "People Like Us," for which she won an Emmy Award.