Trivia of Martha Hyer

 Trivia of Martha Hyer (10 August 1924 - 31 May 2014)

*Hyer graduated from Arlington Heights High School and then from Northwestern University with a degree in drama.She was in the sorority Pi Beta Phi with actress Patricia Neal. She then moved to California to study at the Pasadena Playhouse, and soon after was signed to a film contract with RKO. She was married twice, first to producer C. Ray Stahl and later to producer Hal B. Wallis.

*Once she finished her schooling, Martha Hyer debuted in film The Locket (1946) starred Robert Mitchum.She appeared in uncredited and bit roles in B-movies for the next few years, occasionally working on television, as well.

*Blonde and glamour-elegant, Hyer was once labeled "Universal's answer to Grace Kelly.

*She became Rock Hudson's leading lady in film Battle Hymn (1957) .But in her autobiography, Hyer confide she did not like working with Rock Hudson. She says that he was very self-centered, a man who was tall but who never grew up. He was spoiled and never communicated on any level on things that did not concern him.

*Perhaps the best role of her long career was as "Gwen French" in 1958's Some Came Running (1958) in which she starred opposite Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine.As a result of her stellar role, Martha received an Oscar nomination as Best Actress in a Supporting Role.It's Hyer's only Oscar nominated performance.

*She was in the running for the role of Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), but lost out to Janet Leigh.

*At age 50, she retired from acting, although she later wrote the screenplay to the 1975 Western Rooster Cogburn, starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn.As screenplay writer, she credited as Martin Julien.