| Eva Marie Saint (1924): | American actress who has starred in films, on Broadway and television in a career spanning seven decades. She won an Academy Award for her feature film debut in On the Waterfront (1954), and later appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller North by Northwest (1959). Saint received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for A Hatful of Rain (1957) and won an Emmy Award for the miniseries People Like Us (1990). Her film career also includes a lead role in Exodus (1960) and supporting roles in Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), and Superman Returns (2006). Saint was born in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of Eva Marie (née Rice) and John Merle Saint. She attended Bethlehem Central High School in Delmar, New York, graduating in 1942. Eva Marie was inducted into the high school's hall of fame in 2006. She studied acting at Bowling Green State University, while a member of Delta Gamma Sorority. There is a theater on Bowling Green's campus named for her. She was an active member in the theater honorary fraternity, Theta Alpha Phi.Saint's introduction to television began as an NBC page. In the late 1940s, she began doing extensive work in radio and television before winning the Drama Critics Award for her Broadway stage role in the Horton Foote play The Trip to Bountiful (1953), in which she co-starred with such formidable actors as Lillian Gish and Jo Van Fleet. In 1955, she was nominated for her first Emmy for "Best Actress In A Single Performance" on The Philco Television Playhouse for playing the young mistress of middle-aged E. G. Marshall in Middle of the Night by Paddy Chayevsky. She won another Emmy nomination for the 1955 television musical version of the Thornton Wilder classic play Our Town with co-stars Paul Newman (in his only musical) and Frank Sinatra. Her success and acclaim were of such a high level that the young Saint earned the nickname "the Helen Hayes of television." Saint has appeared in a number of television specials and documentaries, particularly in the past decade, including The Making of North by Northwest, which she narrated and hosted. In 2009, she made a rare public appearance at the 81st Academy Awards ceremony as a Best Supporting Actress presenter. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for motion pictures at 6624 Hollywood Boulevard, and television at 6730 Hollywood Boulevard. Saint has been married to producer/director Jeffrey Hayden since October 28, 1951. They have two children, Darryl (born April 1, 1955) and Laurette (born July 19, 1958), and three grandchildren.
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| with Jeffrey Hayden during the premiere of Fox Searchlight Pictures KINSEY, on November 8, 2004, in Los Angeles. | during a screening of DON'T COME KNOCKING, held at the Fine Arts Theatre, on March 13, 2006, in Los Angeles. | during the premiere of Focus Features ATONEMENT held at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theatre, on December 6, 2007, in Beverly Hills, California. | |
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| | during the 36th AFI Life Achievement Award presented to Warren Beatty, held at the Kodak Theatre, on June 12, 2008, in Los Angeles.
| during the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures, “Space Cowboys”, August 1 in Los Angeles. | as Bob Hope is named "Citizen of the Century" in special plaque dedication ceremony on April 15 2002, in Hollywood California. | |
Bill Withers (1938):
| An African American vocalist and songwriter who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. Some of his best-known songs are "Lean on Me", "Ain't No Sunshine," "Use Me," "Just the Two of Us", "Lovely Day," and "Grandma's Hands". He was born the youngest of six children in the small coal-mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia. Raised in nearby Beckley, West Virginia, Withers was thirteen years old when his father died. He enlisted with the United States Navy at age eighteen and served for nine years; during which time he became interested in singing and writing songs. Soon after his discharge from the Navy (1965), he relocated to Los Angeles (1967) for a musical career. Withers worked as an assembler for several different companies, including Douglas Aircraft Corporation, while recording demo tapes with his own money, shopping them around and performing in clubs during the night. When he debuted with the song "Ain't No Sunshine" he refused to resign his job because of his belief that the music business was a fickle industry and that he was still a novice compared to other acts. At the 14th annual Grammy Awards on Tuesday, March 14, 1972, Withers won his first Grammy for Best Rhythm and Blues Song for "Ain't No Sunshine." Bill Withers was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 and into the inaugural class of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame in 2007. Also, in 2007 his "Lean On Me" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Currently, a feature documentary entitled "Still Bill" directed by Damani Baker and Alex Vlack is being made about Withers. During the professional semi-hiatus which began in the late 1970s, Withers concentrated more on personal matters than professional recording. In 1976, he married Marcia Johnson and they had two children, Todd and Kori, a law student and a singer/song writer respectively. Marcia eventually assumed the direct management of his Beverly Hills-based publishing companies, in which his children also became involved as they became adults.[5] He was also once married to actress Denise Nicholas, best known for her roles on the shows Room 222 and In the Heat of the Night.
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| during the 19th Annual ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Awards, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, on June 26, 2006, in Beverly Hills, California. | with his family during the 19th Annual ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Awards, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, on June 26, 2006, in Beverly Hills, California. | during the 19th Annual ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Awards, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, on June 26, 2006, in Beverly Hills, California. | |
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