Martha Hyer

Also Known As: مارتا هایر

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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Birthday: August 10, 1924

Deathday: May 31, 2014

Adult: No

Gender: Female

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Known For:

Houseboat
The Night of the Grizzly
Sabrina
The Chase
Lucky Me
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
First Men in the Moon
Paris Holiday
Pyro... The Thing Without a Face
The Velvet Touch
Cry Vengeance
The Clay Pigeon
The Woman on the Beach
The Carpetbaggers
Down Three Dark Streets
Francis in the Navy
The Delicate Delinquent
The Sons of Katie Elder
Some Came Running
Bikini Beach
Ice Palace
So Big
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
Battle Hymn
The Best of Everything
The Happening
Riders to the Stars
The Last Time I Saw Archie
Another Man's Wife
Crossplot
House of 1,000 Dolls
Picture Mommy Dead
Roughshod
Thunder Mountain
Wyoming Renegades
Showdown at Abilene
The Kangaroo Kid
Red Sundown
Mister Cory
The Man from the Diners' Club
Kiss of Fire
Wives and Lovers
The Big Fisherman
Kelly and Me
Catch As Catch Can
A Girl Named Tamiko
Wild Stallion
Battle of Rogue River
Mistress of the World - Part I
The Right Approach
The Day of the Wolves
Geisha Girl
My Man Godfrey
Cuernavaca in Spring
The Scarlet Spear
The Judge Steps Out
Rustlers
The Lawless
Desire in the Dust
Trouble on the Trail
Yukon Gold
Born to Kill
Once Upon a Horse...
Some May Live
Mistress of the World - Part II
Gun Smugglers
Blood on the Arrow
Frisco Tornado
Salt Lake Raiders
Outcasts of Black Mesa
Oriental Evil
Paris Follies of 1956
The Locket
War Italian Style