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Martha Hyer

Profession
Acting
Born
August 10, 1924 · Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Died
May 31, 2014

Biography

Martha Hyer (August 10, 1924, Fort Worth, Texas - May 31, 2014, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American actress. She attended Northwestern University and was a member of Pi Beta Phi fraternity. After completing her education, she next appeared in The Locket in 1946. She had roles in So Big (1953), Sabrina (1954), The Delicate Delinquent in 1956 (Jerry Lewis' first film without Dean Martin), Houseboat (1958), Ice Palace (1960), Desire in the Dust (1960), The Carpetbaggers (1964), First Men in the Moon (1964), Blood on the Arrow (1964) and The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), Night of the Grizzly (1966), among many others. She costarred with Keenan Wynn in Bikini Beach (1964), one of the Beach Party movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. On television, Hyer played the part of "Hannah Haley" in the episode "Incident West of Lano" on the Western series Rawhide. Her most significant role came as the love interest of Frank Sinatra in Some Came Running for director Vincente Minnelli in 1958, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Hyer was one of the actresses considered for the Janet Leigh role of the doomed Marion Crane in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Psycho. Her last film was Day of the Wolves in 1973. Hyer married producer Hal B. Wallis in 1966, and the couple remained together until his death in 1986. She died on May 31, 2014, at the age of 89 from natural causes, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she had lived for many years. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martha Hyer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Sabrina poster
Sabrina
Film · 1954 · ★ 7.5
Bewitched poster
Bewitched
Series · 1964 · ★ 7.8
The Chase poster
The Chase
Film · 1966 · ★ 7.1
The Sons of Katie Elder poster
The Sons of Katie Elder
Film · 1965 · ★ 7.0
Rooster Cogburn poster
Rooster Cogburn
Film · 1975 · ★ 6.4
Houseboat poster
Houseboat
Film · 1958 · ★ 6.4
Some Came Running poster
Some Came Running
Film · 1958 · ★ 6.9
First Men in the Moon poster
First Men in the Moon
Film · 1964 · ★ 6.3
The Beverly Hillbillies poster
The Beverly Hillbillies
Series · 1962 · ★ 6.9
Born to Kill poster
Born to Kill
Film · 1947 · ★ 6.7
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour poster
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Series · 1962 · ★ 7.9
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars poster
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Film · 1953 · ★ 5.5

Filmography