Martha Hyer
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 9.485 |
| Birthday | 1924-08-10 |
| Place of Birth | Fort Worth, Texas, USA |
| Also Known As |
1958
Houseboat
6.4/168
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
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1966
The Night of the Grizzly
5.5/24
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1954
Sabrina
7.5/1200
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1966
The Chase
7.092/277
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1953
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
5.561/49
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1958
Paris Holiday
5.2/10
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1954
Lucky Me
6.7/9
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1964
First Men in the Moon
6.3/119
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1964
Pyro... The Thing Without a Face
4.9/7
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1954
Cry Vengeance
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1949
The Clay Pigeon
5.5/19
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1948
The Velvet Touch
6.1/27
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1964
The Carpetbaggers
5.8/34
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1954
Down Three Dark Streets
5.6/22
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1957
The Delicate Delinquent
6.4/32
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1955
Francis in the Navy
5.5/22
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1965
The Sons of Katie Elder
7.1/267
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1958
Some Came Running
6.939/123
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Some Came Running
1964
Bikini Beach
5.7/25
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Bikini Beach
1960
Ice Palace
5.8/7
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1953
So Big
5.6/11
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So Big
1969
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
4.3/3
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1957
Battle Hymn
6.4/19
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Battle Hymn
1967
The Happening
5.9/7
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The Happening
1959
The Best of Everything
6.368/34
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1954
Riders to the Stars
5.536/14
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1961
The Last Time I Saw Archie
5.7/3
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1967
Another Man's Wife
1/1
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1971
The Day of the Wolves
6.714/7
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1969
Crossplot
5.3/18
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1967
House of 1,000 Dolls
5.25/16
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1949
Roughshod
5.3/11
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1947
Thunder Mountain
5/1
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1956
Showdown at Abilene
5.2/9
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1950
The Kangaroo Kid
6/1
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1957
Mister Cory
5.5/7
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1956
Red Sundown
6.1/27
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1955
Kiss of Fire
3/1
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1963
The Man from the Diners' Club
5.5/4
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1959
The Big Fisherman
4.6/7
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1957
Kelly and Me
10/1
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1962
A Girl Named Tamiko
5/2
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1952
Wild Stallion
6.5/2
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1961
The Right Approach
0/0
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1960
Mistress of the World - Part I
6.2/4
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1952
Geisha Girl
0/0
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1957
My Man Godfrey
6.3/22
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1966
Cuernavaca in Spring
5/2
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Cuernavaca in Spring
1966
Picture Mommy Dead
5.2/10
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1947
The Judge Steps Out
7/2
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1954
Wyoming Renegades
5.8/6
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Wyoming Renegades
1954
Battle of Rogue River
5.7/6
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Battle of Rogue River
1960
Desire in the Dust
4/3
Lonnie Wilson returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son in an automobile ac...
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Desire in the Dust
1958
Once Upon a Horse...
8.5/2
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1960
Mistress of the World - Part II
5/1
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Mistress of the World - Part II
1967
Some May Live
3.5/2
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Some May Live
1954
Trouble on the Trail
0/0
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Trouble on the Trail
1948
Gun Smugglers
0/0
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Gun Smugglers
1964
Blood on the Arrow
3.7/7
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Blood on the Arrow
1949
Rustlers
5.3/3
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Rustlers
1963
Wives and Lovers
4.6/7
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Wives and Lovers
1967
Catch As Catch Can
5.5/5
Bob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is taking on him!
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Catch As Catch Can
1950
Outcasts of Black Mesa
0/0
Our Hero is accused of a crime he didn't commit. Once again, he breaks jail to find the real culprits. And once again, he dons his Durango Kid disguis...
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Outcasts of Black Mesa
1950
Frisco Tornado
6/1
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Frisco Tornado
1950
Salt Lake Raiders
6/1
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Salt Lake Raiders
1952
Yukon Gold
4/4
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Yukon Gold
1951
Oriental Evil
0/0
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Oriental Evil
1955
Paris Follies of 1956
0/0
Trouble ensues when a new theatre-restaurant owner discovers the backer to be a harmless and moneyless lunatic.
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1946
The Locket
6.4/38
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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The Locket
1965
War Italian Style
4.8/14
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War Italian Style
1954
The Scarlet Spear
0/0
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1947
Born to Kill
6.7/78
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1947
The Woman on the Beach
6/45
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The Woman on the Beach
1950
The Lawless
5.8/15
A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.
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