Six decades ago Martha Hyer was a glamorous beauty who was seen as a successor to Grace Kelly when she quit movies to become a princess. Hyer starred with Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra and Audrey Hepburn, appeared repeatedly on the cover of magazines, was nominated for an Oscar and married Hal B Wallis, one of the most successful producers in Hollywood.
She was William Holden’s fiancée in Sabrina (1954), with Bogart and Hepburn, and the more wholesome corner of a romantic triangle with Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine in the dark drama Some Came Running (1958), the film that brought her an academy award nomination. She was in the running for the role of Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Psycho, but lost out to Janet