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Martha Hyer (born August 10, 1924 in Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the List of United States cities by population in the United States and the fifth-largest city within the state of Texas. Situated in and a cultural gateway into the Western United States, the city covers nearly in Tarrant County, Texas and Denton County, Texas counties, serving as the county seat for Tarrant County....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress.

Her first movie role was at age eleven when she appeared in Thunder Mountain. After completing her education, she next appeared in The Locket
The Locket

The Locket is a suspense film directed by John Brahm, starring Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, and Gene Raymond, and released by RKO Radio Pictures....
 in 1946. She had roles in Sabrina
Sabrina (1954 film)

Sabrina is a 1954 film directed by Billy Wilder, adapted for the screen by Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor, and Ernest Lehman from Taylor's play Sabrina Fair ....
 (1954), The Delicate Delinquent
The Delicate Delinquent

The Delicate Delinquent is a 1957 in film black and white film starring Jerry Lewis. It was filmed in 1956 and released on June 6, 1957 by Paramount Pictures and is notable as the first film that Lewis made without his Martin and Lewis Dean Martin....
 in 1956 (Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
' first film without Dean Martin
Dean Martin

Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
), Houseboat
Houseboat (film)

Houseboat is a 1958 romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Paul Petersen, Charles Herbert and Mimi Gibson. The movie was directed by Melville Shavelson, who also directed the original 1968 version of Yours, Mine and Ours ....
 (1958), Ice Palace
Ice Palace (film)

Ice Palace is a 1960 in film motion picture adapted from Edna Ferber's Ice Palace . The film, directed by Vincent Sherman and starring Richard Burton, dramatized the debate over Alaska statehood....
 (1960), Desire in the Dust
Desire in the Dust

Desire in the Dust is a 1960 film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by William F. Claxton, and produced by Robert L. Lippert. The film stars Raymond Burr as Col....
 (1960), "The Carpetbaggers" (1964), First Men in the Moon
First Men in the Moon

'First Men in the Moon' is a 1964 in film science fiction film directed by Nathan H. Juran. The film is an adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel The First Men in the Moon and is also known as H.G....
 (1964), Blood on the Arrow
Blood on the Arrow

Blood on the Arrow is a 1964 western film starring Dale Robertson and Martha Hyer is about the sole survivor of an Apache ambush, who rides out to save a young boy who has been captured....
 (1964) and The Sons of Katie Elder
The Sons of Katie Elder

The Sons of Katie Elder is a 1965 in film Western film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring John Wayne and Dean Martin. The film was released by Paramount Pictures....
 (1965), among many others.






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Martha Hyer (born August 10, 1924 in Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the List of United States cities by population in the United States and the fifth-largest city within the state of Texas. Situated in and a cultural gateway into the Western United States, the city covers nearly in Tarrant County, Texas and Denton County, Texas counties, serving as the county seat for Tarrant County....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress.

Her first movie role was at age eleven when she appeared in Thunder Mountain. After completing her education, she next appeared in The Locket
The Locket

The Locket is a suspense film directed by John Brahm, starring Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, and Gene Raymond, and released by RKO Radio Pictures....
 in 1946. She had roles in Sabrina
Sabrina (1954 film)

Sabrina is a 1954 film directed by Billy Wilder, adapted for the screen by Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor, and Ernest Lehman from Taylor's play Sabrina Fair ....
 (1954), The Delicate Delinquent
The Delicate Delinquent

The Delicate Delinquent is a 1957 in film black and white film starring Jerry Lewis. It was filmed in 1956 and released on June 6, 1957 by Paramount Pictures and is notable as the first film that Lewis made without his Martin and Lewis Dean Martin....
 in 1956 (Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
' first film without Dean Martin
Dean Martin

Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
), Houseboat
Houseboat (film)

Houseboat is a 1958 romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Paul Petersen, Charles Herbert and Mimi Gibson. The movie was directed by Melville Shavelson, who also directed the original 1968 version of Yours, Mine and Ours ....
 (1958), Ice Palace
Ice Palace (film)

Ice Palace is a 1960 in film motion picture adapted from Edna Ferber's Ice Palace . The film, directed by Vincent Sherman and starring Richard Burton, dramatized the debate over Alaska statehood....
 (1960), Desire in the Dust
Desire in the Dust

Desire in the Dust is a 1960 film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by William F. Claxton, and produced by Robert L. Lippert. The film stars Raymond Burr as Col....
 (1960), "The Carpetbaggers" (1964), First Men in the Moon
First Men in the Moon

'First Men in the Moon' is a 1964 in film science fiction film directed by Nathan H. Juran. The film is an adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel The First Men in the Moon and is also known as H.G....
 (1964), Blood on the Arrow
Blood on the Arrow

Blood on the Arrow is a 1964 western film starring Dale Robertson and Martha Hyer is about the sole survivor of an Apache ambush, who rides out to save a young boy who has been captured....
 (1964) and The Sons of Katie Elder
The Sons of Katie Elder

The Sons of Katie Elder is a 1965 in film Western film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring John Wayne and Dean Martin. The film was released by Paramount Pictures....
 (1965), among many others. She costarred with Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn

Keenan Wynn was an United States character actor and member of a well-known show business family. His bristling mustache and expressive face were his stock in trade as an actor....
 in Bikini Beach
Bikini Beach

Bikini Beach is a 1964 teen film directed by William Asher and starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. The film belongs to the 'Beach Party film' genre of movies, popular in the 1960s....
 (1964), one of the Beach Party
Beach Party film

Beach Party movies were an American 1960s genre of feature films which often starred Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon. The films, which combined music, romance, and slapstick comedy, were notable for portraying wholesome, fun-loving teens cavorting and living in beach houses free from intrusive parents or authority figures....
 movies with Frankie Avalon
Frankie Avalon

Frankie Avalon is an United States actor, Singing, Sex_Symbol, and former teen idol....
 and Annette Funicello
Annette Funicello

Annette Joanne Funicello is an United States singer and actress. She was Walt Disney's most popular Mickey Mouse Club, and went on to appear in a series of beach party films....
.

Hyer played the part of "Hannah Haley" in the episode "Incident West of Lano" on the Western television series Rawhide
Rawhide (TV series)

Rawhide was a television western series that aired on the U.S. network CBS from 1959 in television to 1966 in television. The show starred Eric Fleming and launched the career of Clint Eastwood....
.

Her most significant role came as the love interest of Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
 in Some Came Running
Some Came Running

Spurred on by the sales and the critical acclaim of his best-selling From Here to Eternity , James Jones set out to write yet another great American novel....
 for director Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli

Vincente Minnelli was a Hollywood film director and Theatre director. His skilled integration of story, music, lighting, and design elements in a film made him the most critically respected crafter of musical film....
 in 1958, for which she received an Academy Award
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 nomination for Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
. Hyer was one of the actresses considered for the Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh

Janet Leigh was an American actress.Discovered by the actress Norma Shearer, Leigh secured a contract with MGM and began her film career in the late 1940s....
 role of the doomed Marion Crane in the Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
 thriller Psycho
Psycho

Psycho is a suspense novel by Robert Bloch....
, according to the Independent Movie Data Base.

Her last film was Day of the Wolves
Day of the Wolves

Day of the Wolves is a 1971 heist movie starring Richard Egan and directed, written and produced by Ferde Grofe Jr.. It was the first movie to be made on location in the new town of Lake Havasu City, Arizona....
 in 1973.

A very pretty platinum blonde, Hyer married producer Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis

Hal B. Wallis, C.B.E. was an Academy Award-winning United States film film producer....
 in 1966, and the couple remained together until his death in 1986. Her autobiography, Finding My Way: A Hollywood Memoir, was published in 1990.

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