Martha Hyer

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Martha Hyer (born August 10, 1924 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American actress.

Her first movie role was at age eleven when she appeared in Thunder Mountain. After completing her education, she next appeared in The Locket in 1946. She had roles in Sabrina (1954), The Delicate Delinquent in 1956 (Jerry Lewis' first film without Dean Martin), Houseboat (1958), First Men in the Moon (1964), and The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), among many others. She costarred with Keenan Wynn in Bikini Beach (1964), one of the Beach Party movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.

Hyer played the part of "Hannah Haley" in the episode "Incident West of Lano" on the Western television 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 an Academy Award nomination 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, according to the Independent Movie Data Base.

Her last film was Day of the Wolves in 1973.

A very pretty platinum blonde, Hyer married producer Hal B. Wallis in 1966, and the couple remained together until his death in 1986. Her autobiography, Finding My Way: A Hollywood Memoir, was published in 1990.

[edit] References

Wallis, Martha Hyer. (1990). Finding My Way. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-250938-1. 

[edit] External links

• Martha Hyer at the Internet Movie Database