In a 2000 interview in Premiere magazine, Saint recalled making the film, which has been highly influential, saying, “[Elia] Kazan put me in a room with Marlon Brando. He said ‘Brando is the boyfriend of your sister. You’re not used to being with a young man. Don’t let him in the door under any circumstances.’ I don’t know what he told Marlon; you’ll have to ask him—good luck! [Brando] came in and started teasing me. He put me off balance. And I remained off balance for the whole shoot.” She repeated the anecdote in a 2010 interview.

Saint appeared alongside Bob Hope in That Certain Feeling (1956) for which she received $50,000. She was then offered $100,000 to star in the Civil War drama Raintree County (1957) with Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift. After that, she starred with Don Murray in A Hatful of Rain, the pioneering drug-addiction drama, which although made later than Raintree County was released earlier in 1957. She received a nomination for the “Best Foreign Actress” award from the British Academy of Film and Television for her performance.

Director Alfred Hitchcock surprised many by choosing Saint over dozens of other candidates for the femme fatale role in what was to become a suspense classic North by Northwest (1959) with Cary Grant and James Mason.

In 2000, recalling her experience making the picture with Cary Grant and Hitchcock, Saint said, “[Grant] would say, ‘See, Eva Marie, you don’t have to cry in a movie to have a good time. Just kick up your heels and have fun.’ Hitchcock said, ‘I don’t want you to do a sink-to-sink movie again, ever. You’ve done these black-and-white movies like On the Waterfront. It’s drab in that tenement house. Women go to the movies, and they’ve just left the sink at home. They don’t want to see you at the sink.’” In a 2010 interview she stated: “I said, ‘I can’t promise you that, Hitch, because I love those dramas.’”

Eva Marie Saint’s 1950s career was characterized by her versatility and ability to hold her own opposite major leading men and under the direction of esteemed filmmakers. Her success in this decade laid the foundation for a long and distinguished career.

Born on July 4, 1927, in Subiaco, Italy, Lollobrigida initially pursued studies in painting and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. She began her career in minor film roles in 1946 and gained wider recognition after placing third in the 1947 Miss Italy contest.

Her captivating screen presence led to significant roles in both Italian and French cinema, including Fanfan la Tulipe (1952) and Bread, Love and Dreams (1953). She made her English-language film debut in Beat the Devil (1953) alongside Humphrey Bogart. Her career flourished with notable performances in films like The World’s Most Beautiful Woman (1955), Trapeze (1956), and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956), where she played Esmeralda.

By the 1970s, Lollobrigida transitioned into a successful second career as a photojournalist, photographing notable figures such as Salvador Dalí and Paul Newman. She also dedicated herself to sculpture, a passion she had pursued since her youth.

Gina Lollobrigida passed away on January 16, 2023, in Rome, at the age of 95. She received numerous accolades throughout her career, including three David di Donatello awards, two Nastro d’Argento awards, and a Golden Globe for World Film Favorite – Female.

Statue of Liberty, formally Liberty Enlightening the World, colossal statue on Liberty Island in the Upper New York Bay, U.S., commemorating the friendship of the peoples of the United States and France. Standing 305 feet (93 meters) high including its pedestal, it represents a woman holding a torch in her raised right hand and a tablet bearing the adoption date of the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) in her left. The torch, which measures 29 feet (8.8 meters) from the flame tip to the bottom of the handle, is accessible via a 42-foot (12.8-meter) service ladder inside the arm (this ascent was open to the public from 1886 to 1916).

A plaque at the pedestal’s entrance is inscribed with a sonnet, “The New Colossus” (1883) by Emma Lazarus. It was written to help raise money for the pedestal, and it reads:

A French historian, Edouard de Laboulaye, made the proposal for the statue. Funds were contributed by the French people, and work began in France in 1875 under sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi. The statue was constructed of copper sheets, hammered into shape by hand and assembled over a framework of four gigantic steel supports, designed by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel.

The colossus was presented to the American minister to France Levi Morton (later vice president) in a ceremony in Paris on July 4, 1884. In 1885 the completed statue, 151 feet 1 inch (46 meters) high and weighing 225 tons, was disassembled and shipped to New York City. The pedestal, designed by American architect Richard Morris Hunt and built within the walls of Fort Wood on Bedloe’s Island, was completed later. The statue, mounted on its pedestal, was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland on October 28, 1886. Over the years the torch underwent several modifications, including its conversion to electric power in 1916 and its redesign (with repoussé copper sheathed in gold leaf) in the mid-1980s, when the statue was repaired and restored by both American and French workers for a centennial celebration held in July 1986. The site was added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1984.