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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Movies (75)
Rooster Cogburn
1975 · Writer
The Day of the Wolves
1971 · Maggie Anderson
Crossplot
1969 · Jo Grinling
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
1969 · Lee Marshall
House of 1,000 Dolls
1967 · Rebecca
Another Man's Wife
1967 · Ana María
Catch As Catch Can
1967 · Luisa Chiaramonte
Some May Live
1967 · Kate Meredith
The Happening
1967 · Monica Delmonico
Picture Mommy Dead
1966 · Francene Shelley
Cuernavaca in Spring
1966
The Night of the Grizzly
1966 · Angela Cole
The Chase
1966 · Mary Fuller
War Italian Style
1965 · Lt. Inge Schultze
The Sons of Katie Elder
1965 · Mary Gordon
Blood on the Arrow
1964 · Nancy Mailer
First Men in the Moon
1964 · Kate Callender
Bikini Beach
1964 · Vivien Clements
The Carpetbaggers
1964 · Jennie Denton
Pyro... The Thing Without a Face
1964 · Laura Blanco
Wives and Lovers
1963 · Lucinda Ford
The Man from the Diners' Club
1963 · Lucy
A Girl Named Tamiko
1962 · Fay Wilson
The Last Time I Saw Archie
1961 · Peggy Kramer
The Right Approach
1961 · Anne Perry
Desire in the Dust
1960 · Melinda Marquand
Mistress of the World - Part II
1960 · Karin Johanson
Mistress of the World - Part I
1960 · Karin Johanson
Ice Palace
1960 · Dorothy Wendt Kennedy
The Best of Everything
1959 · Barbara Lamont
The Big Fisherman
1959 · Herodias
Some Came Running
1958 · Gwen French
Houseboat
1958 · Carolyn Gibson
Once Upon a Horse...
1958 · Miss Amity Babb
Paris Holiday
1958 · Ann McCall
My Man Godfrey
1957 · Cordelia Bullock
The Delicate Delinquent
1957 · Martha Henshaw
Kelly and Me
1957 · Lucy Castle
Mister Cory
1957 · Abby Vollard
Battle Hymn
1957 · Mary Hess
Showdown at Abilene
1956 · Peggy Bigelow
Red Sundown
1956 · Caroline Murphy
Paris Follies of 1956
1955 · Ruth Harmon
Kiss of Fire
1955 · Felicia
Francis in the Navy
1955 · Betsy Donevan
Trouble on the Trail
1954 · Kidnapped Singer
Cry Vengeance
1954 · Peggy Harding
Down Three Dark Streets
1954 · Connie Anderson
Sabrina
1954 · Elizabeth Tyson
Battle of Rogue River
1954 · Brett McClain
Lucky Me
1954 · Lorraine Thayer
Wyoming Renegades
1954 · Nancy Warren
The Scarlet Spear
1954 · Christine
Riders to the Stars
1954 · Dr. Jane Flynn
So Big
1953 · Paula Hempel
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
1953 · Janie Howe
Yukon Gold
1952 · Marie Briand
Geisha Girl
1952 · Peggy Burns
Wild Stallion
1952 · Caroline (as an adult)
Oriental Evil
1951 · Cheryl Banning
The Kangaroo Kid
1950 · Mary Corbett
Frisco Tornado
1950 · Jean Martin
The Lawless
1950 · Caroline Tyler
Salt Lake Raiders
1950 · Helen Thornton
Outcast of Black Mesa
1950 · Ruth Dorn
Roughshod
1949 · Marcia
The Clay Pigeon
1949 · Miss Harwick
Rustlers
1949 · Ruth Abbott
Gun Smugglers
1948 · Judy Davis
The Velvet Touch
1948 · Helen Adams
The Judge Steps Out
1947 · Catherine Bailey Struthers III
The Woman on the Beach
1947 · Mrs. Barton (uncredited)
Thunder Mountain
1947 · Ellie Jorth
Born to Kill
1947 · Maid (uncredited)
The Locket
1946 · Bridesmaid (uncredited)
TV shows (23)
McCloud
1970
The Name of the Game
1968 · Billie Ramsey
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Family Affair
1966
Branded
1965
Bewitched
1964 · Margaret Marshall
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963 · Helen Blaine, Caroline Glenn
Burke's Law
1963 · Jerri Vaughn, Penny Allen, Clarissa Montgomery, Gloria Vickers, Adrienne Shelton, Dr. Serena Standish
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Alice Marsden, Judy Mullett
The Virginian
1962 · Amalia Clark
Route 66
1960
The Deputy
1959 · Joy Cartwright
Rawhide
1959 · Hannah Haley
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Laurie Pritchard
Climax!
1954 · Vi Johnson
Public Defender
1954
Four Star Playhouse
1952 · Gloria, Jan
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Lisa
Racket Squad
1951
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Lois, Ivy, Jean, Julie, Trudy