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Acting
Birthday:
August 10, 1924
Place of Birth:
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Martha Hyer
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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | The Day of the Wolves | Maggie Anderson |
| 1969 | Once You Kiss a Stranger... | Lee Marshall |
| 1969 | Crossplot | Jo Grinling |
| 1967 | The Happening | Monica Delmonico |
| 1967 | Another Man's Wife | Ana María |
| 1967 | House of 1,000 Dolls | Rebecca |
| 1967 | Catch As Catch Can | Luisa Chiaramonte |
| 1967 | Some May Live | Kate Meredith |
| 1966 | The Night of the Grizzly | Angela Cole |
| 1966 | The Chase | Mary Fuller |
| 1966 | Picture Mommy Dead | Francene Shelley |
| 1966 | Cuernavaca in Spring | |
| 1965 | The Sons of Katie Elder | Mary Gordon |
| 1965 | War Italian Style | Lt. Inge Schultze |
| 1964 | First Men in the Moon | Kate Callender |
| 1964 | Pyro... The Thing Without a Face | Laura Blanco |
| 1964 | The Carpetbaggers | Jennie Denton |
| 1964 | Bikini Beach | Vivien Clements |
| 1964 | Blood on the Arrow | Nancy Mailer |
| 1963 | The Man from the Diners' Club | Lucy |
| 1963 | Wives and Lovers | Lucinda Ford |
| 1962 | A Girl Named Tamiko | Fay Wilson |
| 1961 | The Last Time I Saw Archie | Peggy Kramer |
| 1961 | The Right Approach | Anne Perry |
| 1960 | Ice Palace | Dorothy Wendt Kennedy |
| 1960 | Mistress of the World - Part I | Karin Johanson |
| 1960 | Desire in the Dust | Melinda Marquand |
| 1960 | Mistress of the World - Part II | Karin Johanson |
| 1959 | The Best of Everything | Barbara Lamont |
| 1959 | The Big Fisherman | Herodias |
| 1958 | Houseboat | Carolyn Gibson |
| 1958 | Paris Holiday | Ann McCall |
| 1958 | Some Came Running | Gwen French |
| 1958 | Once Upon a Horse... | Miss Amity Babb |
| 1957 | The Delicate Delinquent | Martha Henshaw |
| 1957 | Battle Hymn | Mary Hess |
| 1957 | Mister Cory | Abby Vollard |
| 1957 | Kelly and Me | Lucy Castle |
| 1957 | My Man Godfrey | Cordelia Bullock |
| 1956 | Showdown at Abilene | Peggy Bigelow |
| 1956 | Red Sundown | Caroline Murphy |
| 1955 | Francis in the Navy | Betsy Donevan |
| 1955 | Kiss of Fire | Felicia |
| 1955 | Paris Follies of 1956 | Ruth Harmon |
| 1954 | Sabrina | Elizabeth Tyson |
| 1954 | Lucky Me | Lorraine Thayer |
| 1954 | Cry Vengeance | Peggy Harding |
| 1954 | Down Three Dark Streets | Connie Anderson |
| 1954 | Riders to the Stars | Dr. Jane Flynn |
| 1954 | Wyoming Renegades | Nancy Warren |
| 1954 | Battle of Rogue River | Brett McClain |
| 1954 | The Scarlet Spear | Christine |
| 1954 | Trouble on the Trail | Kidnapped Singer |
| 1953 | Abbott and Costello Go to Mars | Janie Howe |
| 1953 | So Big | Paula Hempel |
| 1952 | Wild Stallion | Caroline (as an adult) |
| 1952 | Geisha Girl | Peggy Burns |
| 1952 | Yukon Gold | Marie Briand |
| 1951 | Oriental Evil | Cheryl Banning |
| 1950 | The Kangaroo Kid | Mary Corbett |
| 1950 | The Lawless | Caroline Tyler |
| 1950 | Frisco Tornado | Jean Martin |
| 1950 | Salt Lake Raiders | Helen Thornton |
| 1950 | Outcasts of Black Mesa | Ruth Dorn |
| 1949 | The Clay Pigeon | Miss Harwick |
| 1949 | Roughshod | Marcia |
| 1949 | Rustlers | Ruth Abbott |
| 1948 | The Velvet Touch | Helen Adams |
| 1948 | Gun Smugglers | Judy Davis |
| 1947 | The Woman on the Beach | Mrs. Barton (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Thunder Mountain | Ellie Jorth |
| 1947 | The Judge Steps Out | Catherine Bailey Struthers III |
| 1947 | Born to Kill | Maid (uncredited) |
| 1946 | The Locket | Bridesmaid (uncredited) |