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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Acting
Movie
Sabrina
as Elizabeth Tyson
1954
TV
Bewitched
as Margaret Marshall
1964
Movie
The Chase
as Mary Fuller
1966
Movie
The Sons of Katie Elder
as Mary Gordon
1965
Movie
Houseboat
as Carolyn Gibson
1958
Movie
First Men in the Moon
as Kate Callender
1964
Movie
Some Came Running
as Gwen French
1958
TV
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Movie
Born to Kill
as Maid (uncredited)
1947
TV
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Alice Marsden
1962
TV
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Judy Mullett
1962
Movie
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
as Janie Howe
1953
Movie
The Woman on the Beach
as Mrs. Barton (uncredited)
1947
TV
McCloud
1970
TV
Rawhide
as Hannah Haley
1959
Movie
The Locket
as Bridesmaid (uncredited)
1946
Movie
The Best of Everything
as Barbara Lamont
1959
TV
Family Affair
1966
Movie
The Carpetbaggers
as Jennie Denton
1964
Movie
The Delicate Delinquent
as Martha Henshaw
1957
TV
The Virginian
as Amalia Clark
1962
Movie
The Velvet Touch
as Helen Adams
1948
Movie
The Night of the Grizzly
as Angela Cole
1966
Movie
Red Sundown
as Caroline Murphy
1956
