Center for the literary arts in New York State
SMALL TOWN BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AND FILM SCREENING
"On The Waterfront"
7 p.m. Friday, November 1, 2024
Bethlehem Central Middle School
332 Kenwood Avenue
Delmar NY 12054
Free parking. Free and open to the public.
Come celebrate the 100th birthday of Eva Marie Saint, Bethlehem, New York, native and star of the silver screen, inside the actual building where she attended high school (before it relocated in 1954).
A 1942 Bethlehem Central High School graduate, Saint celebrated her 100th birthday on July 4th. The oldest-living Oscar winner, and one of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, she is unable to attend the festivities, but will join us in spirit.
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ON THE WATERFRONT
(United States, 1954, 108 minutes, black and white) Directed by Elia Kazan. Starring Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb.
Music by Leonard Bernstein.
Eva Marie Saint won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, playing opposite Marlon Brandon in this tale of mobsters and corrupt union bosses on the New Jersey waterfront. The film won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
In his review for The New York Times, film critic A.H. Weiler wrote, "In casting Eva Marie Saint—a newcomer to movies from TV and Broadway—Mr. Kazan has come up with a pretty and blond artisan who does not have to depend on these attributes. Her parochial school training is no bar to love with the proper stranger. Amid scenes of carnage, she gives tenderness and sensitivity to genuine romance."