Number 23: Eva Marie Saint as Edie Doyle in "On the Waterfront" (Best Supporting Actress Ranking)

If Celeste Holm is an illustration of a real supporting efficiency, Eva Marie Saint is an early case in point of a co-direct overall performance triumphing in the supporting classification simply because a earn in the major group would have been impossible taking into consideration competitiveness from Grace Kelly and Judy Garland. But I am only listed here to choose the functionality and not the class placement and Eva Marie Saint undoubtedly sent a fantastic overall performance in a famous classic.

Eva Marie Saint played Edie Doyle, the sister of a killed male who wants to know ‘who killed my brother!’ Edie is the central character to the tale – she sets the movement in action, she is responsible for the modify in Terry’s (Marlon Brando) character, she may possibly show up weak compared to all the hard male people that dominate the film but her sweetness and her innocence deliver far more alterations to the waterfront than something else.

Eva Marie Saint’s very own pretty appearance and her unfortunate experience function extremely nicely right here. She shows Edie as a restless character, constantly transferring her eyes, constantly uncertain of herself but also established to find the killer of her brother. She has a superb chemistry with Marlon Brando and the two make a single of the biggest Oscar-successful pairs ever. She can make it believable that her softness and her love could modify Terry and make him do the right thing even if it means turning in opposition to his personal individuals.  

Eva Marie Saint has the not effortless task of taking part in a character that’s pure and good in an atmosphere that is everything but. Since of that she could easily have occur actress as too saint-like but Eva Marie Saint exhibits that Edie is shy and tranquil and slowly develops emotions for Terry without having making an attempt to manipulate him or showing also naive. She never flirts with him or makes a move on him, rather she tends to make him adore her with her simple way of viewing lifestyle: ‘Shouldn’t every person treatment about every person else?’ She is also quite touching when she tells Terry ‘Help me if you can, for God’s Sake’ and later she is just pretty when they are dancing and she claims ‘I feel like I’m just floating…just floating.’

In the portion of Edie, Eva Marie Saint goes through a wide variety of emotion – from terrified and terrified to loving and sweet to offended and bitter – and every little thing is carried out perfectly. She perfectly provides to the later tension of the tale when she runs via a darkish alley, shouting Terry’s title.  

Like Jessica Lange in Tootsie, Eva Marie Saint gives a intricate efficiency of a straightforward character and she does it superbly.