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Martha Hyer

Martha Hyer

Birthday: 1924-08-10 | Place of Birth: Fort Worth, Texas, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1971
The Day of the Wolves

as    Maggie Anderson

1969
Crossplot

as    Jo Grinling

1967
House of 1,000 Dolls

as    Rebecca

1966
The Night of the Grizzly

as    Angela Cole

1966
Picture Mommy Dead

as    Francene Shelley

1966
The Chase

as    Mary Fuller

1965
The Sons of Katie Elder

as    Mary Gordon

1964
The Carpetbaggers

as    Jennie Denton

1964
First Men in the Moon

as    Kate Callender

1964
Pyro... The Thing Without a Face

as    Laura Blanco

1964
Bikini Beach

as    Vivien Clements

1961
The Last Time I Saw Archie

as    Peggy Kramer

1960
Ice Palace

as    Dorothy Wendt Kennedy

1960
Desire in the Dust

as    Melinda Marquand

1959
The Best of Everything

as    Barbara Lamont

1959
The Big Fisherman

as    Herodias

1958
Paris Holiday

as    Ann McCall

1958
Houseboat

as    Carolyn Gibson

1958
Some Came Running

as    Gwen French

1958
Once Upon a Horse...

as    Miss Amity Babb

1957
The Delicate Delinquent

as    Martha Henshaw

1957
Battle Hymn

as    Mary Hess

1956
Red Sundown

as    Caroline Murphy

1955
Francis in the Navy

as    Betsy Donevan

1954
Down Three Dark Streets

as    Connie Anderson

1954
Riders to the Stars

as    Dr. Jane Flynn

1954
Sabrina

as    Elizabeth Tyson

1954
Lucky Me

as    Lorraine Thayer

1954
Cry Vengeance

as    Peggy Harding