Saint was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Eva Marie (née Rice; 1896–1987) and John Merle Saint (1891–1965). She attended Bethlehem Central High School in Delmar, New York, near Albany, graduating in 1942. She was inducted into the high school\'s hall of fame in 2006. She studied acting at Bowling Green State University and joined Delta Gamma Sorority. A theater on Bowling Green\'s campus is named after her. She was an active member in the theater honorary fraternity, Theta Alpha Phi, and served as Secretary of the Bowling Green Student Government in 1944.\n', '

Saint\'s introduction to television began as an NBC page. She appeared in the very early live NBC TV show Campus Hoopla in 1946–47. Her performances on this program are recorded on rare kinescope, and audio recordings of these telecasts are preserved in the Library of Congress. She also in the Bonnie Maid\'s Versa-Tile Varieties on NBC in 1949 as one of the original singing "Bonnie Maids" used in the live commercials.\n', '

She appeared in a 1947 Life Magazine special about television, and also in a 1949 feature Life article about her as a struggling actress earning minimum amounts from early TV while trying to make ends meet in New York City. In the late 1940s, Saint continued to make her living by extensive work in radio and television. In 1953, she won the Drama Critics Award for her Broadway stage role in the Horton Foote play, The Trip to Bountiful (1953), in which she co-starred with such formidable actors as Lillian Gish and Jo Van Fleet.\n', '

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