Martha Hyer
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| Name: | Martha Hyer | |
| Status | Deceased | |
| Age: | 89 (August 10, 1924 -May 31, 2014) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| TMDB Popularity | 14.952 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | 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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Crossplot
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smokingsides
At about the forty-four minute mark in the movie, Martha Hyer and Roger Moore are in his office in a high-rise building. He asks her what she wants to drink and the scene cuts to the roof where a villain is trying to throw Claudie Lange to the street many stories below. The scene shifts back to the office where Martha asks Roger for another drink with a lit cigarette in a holder in her right hand. Roger looks out the window, sees the struggle on the roof, and rushes out to help Claudie. |
Cuernavaca en primavera
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smokingsides
In the movie's opening scene, Hyer has a cigarette in a long holder in her mouth while she is painting a picture. Later, she playfully blows a smoke ring at her own reflection in a mirror. Another scene is a closeup of her lying on a bed, taking a deep drag, and letting the smoke out slowly. |
Desire in the Dust
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smokingsides
two great holding scenes |
Fuego
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smokingsides
smokes in two scenes. In the first there is a good lightup and several drags. In the second she is lying in bed smoking. |
Once You Kiss a Stranger
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smokingsides
one scene ... lighting up with mostly the back of her head to the camera, followed by a few shots of her holding but just after an small exhale. |
Oriental Evil
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smokingsides
Early in the movie, Martha Hyer is walking down a street in Japan at night when she stops to ask a Japanese man for directions. As they are talking, he lights her cigarette. Two or three scenes later, she tosses the cigarette down on the sidewalk. Later, there is a scene in a Japanese restaurant where Martha and Byron Michie have finished dinner. As the scene opens, Martha is crushing out a cigarette butt in an ashtray. |
The Carpetbaggers
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smokingsides
Missed the first half, but in the remainder, Ashley has two scenes, Baker has two with holder, and Hyer has one light up scene. |
The Locket
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smokingsides
takes a drag off a cigarette after saying the line 'If you're lucky, you can afford to be nice.' |
Wives and Lovers
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an excellent lighting up scene |
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