From WOOD COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING
The Wood County Committee on Aging will celebrate the life of movie actress Eva Marie Saint, who is 99 years of age and will turn 100 on July 4, 2024. Saint is both the oldest living and earliest surviving Academy Award-winner, and one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
Saint is a 1946 graduate of Bowling Green State University. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the university as well as an honorary doctorate, and is the namesake of the Eva Marie Saint Theatre, now in the Wolfe Center for the Arts, and formerly in University Hall.
She first returned to BGSU in 1982 to reunited with Lillian Gish with whom she performed in “A Trip to Bountiful,” both on Broadway and on television. She returned eight times after that, most recently in 2018.
The Wood County Committee on Aging, Inc. (WCCOA) will present these films as an after-lunch program.
John R. Blinn, host and film buff, will present remarks on her motion picture presence with a viewing of one of her movies at the Wood County Senior Center, 140 S. Grove St., Bowling Green, on Monday, July 1 at 1 p.m.
Each Friday at 1 p.m. thereafter Blinn will feature the following films featuring Eva Marie Saint:
- Friday, July 5, 2024 “That Certain Feeling” (Comedy) (1956) Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders
- Friday, July 12, 2024 “A Hatful of Rain” (Drama) (1957) Eva Marie Saint Don Murray, Tony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan
- Friday, July 19, 2024 “All Fall Down” (Drama) (1962) Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, Angela Lansbury
- Friday, July 26, 2024 “36 Hours” (War Drama/Spy Thriller) (1964) James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor
- Friday, Aug. 2, 2024 “The Russians Are Coming” (Comedy/War Satire) (1966) Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, Brian Keith
- Friday, Aug. 9, 2024 “Jane Doe” (Thriller) (1983) Karen Valentine, William Devane, Eva Marie Saint
- Friday, Aug. 16, 2024 “Love Leads the Way” (Drama/History) (1984) Timothy Bottoms, Eva Marie Saint, Arthur Hill
- Friday, Aug. 23, 2024 “Palomino” (Drama/Romance) (1991) Lindsay Frost, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor
- Friday, Aug. 30, 2024 “Because of Winn-Dixie” (Comedy/Drama) (2005) Anna Sophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, Eva Marie Saint
This program is free and open to the public. Call the WCCOA Programs Department to make your reservation at 419-353-5661 or 800.367.4935 or email programs@wccoa.net
