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Martha Hyer (August 10, 1924 – May 31, 2014) was an American actress who played Gwen French in Some Came Running (1958), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her autobiography, Finding My Way: A Hollywood Memoir, was published in 1990.
Martha Hyer on IMDb: Awards, nominations, and wins.
As a result of her stellar role, Martha received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, but she lost out to Wendy Hiller in Separate Tables (1958). Afterwards, Martha's stint on the US silver screen's trailed off some.
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Wikipedia. Martha Hyer was a film and television actress who received an Oscar nomination for her performance as a small-town schoolteacher in the 1958 feature Some Came Running. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, she moved to California to pursue an acting career after studying at Northwestern University.
Jun 11, 2014 · Actress Martha Hyer, who drew an Oscar nomination for her role in 1959 for her role in Vincente Minnelli's film "Some Came Running," died May 31 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was 89.
Jun 11, 2014 · Although Ms. Hyer was nominated for an Academy Award as best supporting actress, the actress in the film who received the most notice was Ms. MacLaine, playing a less reputable woman also...
Jun 12, 2014 · Los Angeles Times. June 12, 2014 at 7:51 p.m. EDT. 0. Martha Hyer, a Hollywood actress in the 1950s and 1960s who was likened to Grace Kelly for her cool, blond elegance and earned an Oscar...
