Claims extracted
19
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
5%
1 of 19 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
68/100
BBC News's corrections and
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Outlets on this story
10
Entertainment
Same framing elsewhere
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articles that frame the event the way this one does
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Eva Marie Saint, the Oscar-winning actress who starred in Hollywood classics such as On the Waterfront and North by Northwest, has died aged 102.
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who → publish → Northwest
Saint won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her movie debut in director Elia Kazan's 1954 crime thriller On the Waterfront, playing Edie Doyle, the love interest of Marlon Brando's conflicted ex-boxer docker.
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Saint → win → docker
Five years later, she portrayed femme fatale Eve Kendall, dangerously seducing Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock's action thriller North by Northwest.
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she → portray → Northwest
She died on Tuesday of natural causes, surrounded by family and loved ones at her home in Los Angeles, family representative Jeff Sanderson confirmed.
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Sanderson → die → Angeles
Saint also won an Emmy in 1990 for her role as a rich widow in the acclaimed TV miniseries People Like Us.
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Saint → win → Us
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Saint had originally intended to become a teacher before developing a passion for theatre.
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Saint → bear → theatre
She trained in New York at the Herbert Berghof Studio and then the Actors Studio - the home of method acting - co-founded by Kazan.
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Saint burst on to the Hollywood scene with her performance in Kazan's classic, On the Waterfront.
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Saint → burst → Waterfront
Brando was known as an intense method actor and Saint admitted to having found him "adorable" but "a little frightening".
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him → know → actor
"I felt that he could see right through me," she told Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in a 2013 interview.
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she → feel → interview
She was considered a surprise choice, though, to play one of "Hitchcock's blondes", as they were known at the time, in his masterpiece North by Northwest.
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they → consider → Northwest
Her co-star Grant was known for being very demanding of his leading ladies.
"He worked with me from the outside in," said Saint.
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Saint → know → outside
And just from creating that exterior for me, he gave me the sense of a spy lady."
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he → create → lady
Saint also starred opposite Paul Newman in Otto Preminger's Exodus in 1960, and she was Warren Beatty's love interest in John Frankenheimer's All Fall Down.
But she then stepped away from the limelight to raise a family with director Jeffrey Hayden.
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she → star → Hayden
Half a century later, Saint - by then in her early 80s - made a big screen comeback as Superman's adoptive mother in the 2006 blockbuster Superman Returns.
And she later had parts in the supernatural fantasy Winter's Tale, alongside Colin Farrell and Russell Crowe, and another in the 2019 nun drama Mariette in Ecstasy.
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she → make → Ecstasy
Saint, who has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, said her longevity in acting had given her work extra depth.
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longevity → have → depth
"The longer you live, the smarter you get, because you've been around, you've seen things," she told TCM.
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she → live → TCM
"You've gone through different emotional experiences in your own life, and hopefully, you understand things better.
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you → go → things
"And that makes you a better actress."
Saint's marriage to Hayden lasted for 65 years, until his death in 2016, and she is survived by their two children.
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she → make → children
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