Remembering Eva Marie Saint / 'Interview with the Vampire' turns 50
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Remembering Eva Marie Saint / 'Interview with the Vampire' turns 50

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 16, 202646 min
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The actor Eva Marie Saint died last week at age 102. She won an academy award for her first film role in On the Waterfront opposite Marlon Brando, and in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest she co-starred with Cary Grant. She said Hitchcock didn't give her much direction. “Things like lower your voice, don't use your hands… and look directly into Cary Grant's eyes at all times – which was not difficult.” She told Terry Gross in 2000. Also Anne Rice's debut novel Interview with the Vampire turns 50 this year. Terry spoke with Rice in 1990. “I think if a vampire were to come to...

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This is Fresh Air. I'm Dave Davies. The actress Eva Marie Saint, best known for two very different roles in On the Waterfront and North by Northwest, died last week. She was 102 years old. She won an Academy Award in 1955 for her movie debut in On the Waterfront, playing the shy, parochial school-educated young woman

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