Eva Marie Saint, the Oscar-winning actress who starred in classic films including North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, has died at 102.Saint’s spokesperson revealed she had died on Tuesday of natural causes, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Saint won an Academy Award for her work in 1954’s On the Waterfront, which paired her with screen icon Marlon Brando.Saint was also the recipient in her long career of a Primetime Emmy Award, and she was nominated for a Golden Globe and two BAFTA Awards. In addition to working with Brando and Cary Grant, who costarred with her in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller North by Northwest, Saint worked with a bevy of legendary leading men, including Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, James Garner and Bob Hope.Although Saint continued to work into the 2010s, she’s best remembered for her work in the 1950s, in particular her work in On the Waterfront with director Elia Kazan and her collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock in North by Northwest. Eva Marie Saint, the Oscar-winning actress who starred in classic films including North By Northwest and On the Waterfront, has died at 102. Saint’s spokesperson revealed she died on Tuesday of natural causes, according to The Hollywood Reporter; Above, in 2019 One of Saint’s most popular films was Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (above), in which she played a double agent who assists an innocent man swept up in a plot involving murder and espionage (Cary Grant)She made her feature film debut in the former movie, which starred Brando as Terry Malloy, a former boxer who became a longshoreman after losing a match at the insistence of a local mob boss.After Malloy witnesses the same mobster’s goons murder a dock worker to prevent him from testifying in a corruption investigation, he is conflicted about whether he should speak up or stay quiet to ensure he can continue working.Saint starred as Edie, the sister of the murdered dock worker who tries to convince Terry to testify to the commission.For her first film role, Saint won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and she was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Most Promising Newcomer. Saint’s instant success in Hollywood led to more leading roles, as well as paydays far larger than the $7,500 she was paid for On the Waterfront. The actress proved that she had the chops for comedy when she followed On the Waterfront with That Certain Feeling (1956), which paired her with funnyman Bob Hope.She followed it up in 1957 with another left turn, the Civil War drama Raintree County, which also starred lifelong friends Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift.Saint also pushed the limits of what could be depicted on screen at the height of Hollywood censorship under the Production Code with the 1957 addiction drama A Hatful of Rain, which earned her another BAFTA nomination, this time for Best Foreign Actress. Saint’s first masterpiece was On the Waterfront (1954; above), which starred Marlon Brando (L) as a prizefighter-turned-longshoreman who is conflicted about testifying in a corruption investigation or keeping quiet and ensuring himself work at a mob-run dock The actress, who was only paid $7,500 to star in On the Waterfront (pictured), made her feature film debut in the Elia Kazan–directed movie For her first film role, Saint was awarded the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and she was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Most Promising Newcomer; above, in 1955Saint’s other masterpiece came at the end of the ’50s, when Alfred Hitchcock chose her as his next glamorous blonde to appear with Cary Grant in the comic spy thriller North by Northwest.The film, a more ambitious return to Hitchcock’s early-career thrillers about a ‘wrong man’ who is swept up into espionage against his will, starred Grant as an ad executive who is mistaken for a spy by a dangerous group of international criminals.Saint played a nuanced role as the apparent femme fatale and arm candy of the villain (played by James Mason), but she’s later revealed to be a double agent working behind the scenes for a US intelligence agency. The breezy film was a hit with critics and audiences alike, becoming one of the best-regarded movies Saint, Grant and Hitchcock ever made. Years later, Saint recalled the refreshing mood on set, which was far lighter than on the dramas she made her name starring in. ‘My favourite memory is when Cary Grant walked on set and said, “Eva Marie, this is going to be fun. No tears!”’ she recalled in an interview. ‘What he meant was that in previous movies, I had to cry a lot. I just said, “Fine, sounds good to me!”’While other actresses famously had strained relationships with Hitchcock – whom The Birds and Marnie star Tippi Hedron accused of sexually assaulting her – Saint thought he was ‘such a wonderful director’ and a ‘courteous’ man. She called Hitchcock her ‘sugar daddy’ after he obtained an elegant black dress with red roses that caught her eye and ended up in the film. At the end of the ’50s, Saint scored another hit with critics and audiences alike in North by Northwest (above) Saint worked less frequently in the 1960s to devote more time to her family. She had married director Jeffrey Hayden in 1951, and they shared two children; above, in 1955, in a publicity photo for Our TownSaint had married director Jeffrey Hayden in 1951, and as the ’60s rolled around, she began to limit her film work to reserve time for him and their two children. She made only two films in five years: 1960’s Exodus and 1962’s All Fall Down. Otto Preminger directed the former film with an ensemble cast including Paul Newman and Ralph Richardson about the founding of Israel, based on Leon Uris’s 1958 novel of the same name. In All Fall Down, Saint was paired with a young Warren Beatty before he rocketed to superstardom later in the decade with Bonnie and Clyde.Saint was born July 4, 1924, in Newark, New Jersey, to John Merle Saint and Eva Marie Rice. Her father worked for the tire company BF Goodrich, and her mother was a teacher before becoming a homemaker.Saint remembered her parents fondly: ‘He was a dear father and he worked so hard, six out of seven days a week. And my mother cooked, and gardened, and made all our clothes. It was the Depression, and it must have been hard for them. But I never felt in want of anything.’As a child, Saint enjoyed family picnics with her parents and younger sister Adelaide, playing baseball in the park with her father and ice skating in the winter.Her first ambition was to be a teacher like her mother. Saint was majoring in education at Bowling Green State University when she was dared to try out for a play at the campus theatre. Saint initially planned to be a teacher and majored in Education at Bowling Green University before she was bit by the acting bug and moved to New York to take classes at the Actors Studio, where her future costar Brando was also a student; above, circa 1950The experience was transformative for Saint, who decided to pursue acting and began studying at the Actors Studio in New York – the same school that her future costar Brando attended.Saint’s early roles included parts in advertisements, including spots for Keds shoes and linoleum, and she modeled to improve her visibility. However, the future star was determined to make it as an actress, as she said that modeling made her ‘very, very self-conscious.’Saint’s decades-long relationship with Jeffrey Hayden began when she met him in 1949 as she was standing in the subway passage under Rockefeller Center in New York City.‘I was carrying a modeling book with my name, Eva Marie Saint, in gold in little letters at the bottom. And the name intrigued him,’ she recalled in a 2014 interview with NPR.Instantly smitten, Hayden asked her out for coffee, but Saint declined, as she didn’t drink coffee. He later invited her out for lunch, which she accepted. The pair married in October 1951.