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Lee J. Cobb played the lead originally in “Death of a Salesman.” To top it off, the male lead, opposite Eva, is Marlon Brando, a hugely talented fel¬ low who is about the hottest actor of the moment, and who has made mum¬ bling a national sport. They’re all connected with her first movie. Eva Marie has been jobbing around on TV for some time now, playing parts on most of the major dramatic shows. She also did a two-and-a-half- year stretch as one of the family on One Man’s Family. Eva Marie has been working and learning her way up for quite a spell. She was studying to be an elementary schoolteacher when she took a crack at acting in a school play. Teaching suddenly lost its appeal, and after her family moved from Albany to New York City, Eva began turning up regularly in waiting lines at Gotham theatrical agencies. Lunch And Longing “I remember going to Reuben’s restaurant, eating lunch after lunch, thinking someone was going to see me and say, ‘See that blond? Wonder if she can act,’ ” admits Eva Marie. “But that just doesn’t happen. “You just don’t get a part in a Broadway play as soon as you leave college, but there were other things to do—radio, soap operas, television. So this was my goal: Just to make the rounds, try to see theater people, get to know the directors, and try to get some work and training in the pro¬ fession.” The recent payoff on the well- planned campaign of Miss Saint is not being climaxed with a movie career. “Oh, no, I’m not going to move to Hollywood,” says Eva. “I love New York, my work is here, my husband’s work is here. (He’s Jeff Hayden, who is now directing The Mask.) I have a On New Jersey waterfront, she plays ink film role with Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, y contract to make one movie a year, but I’m not going to hang around Holly¬ wood the rest of the time.” On Broadway, she was offered a part in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Picnic,” as a replacement for the fe¬ male lead, but she turned it down, feeling that her career is better served by creating a new part herself. From all this, it becomes apparent that what Eva Marie really is angling for is a Broadway career. That will work out fine for TV fans as her presence on Broadway will make her available for all the live dramatic shows out of New York. Her husband Jeff is now attending dramatic school with her, suggesting perhaps a family rivalry for acting honors or maybe long-range plans to become some sort of a Lunt-Fontanne team. Eva Marie is not without her ap¬ preciation for television. She is thor¬ oughly grateful for the work, for what she’s learned and for the money. But she explains the theater as her first love this way. “Opening night of ‘The Trip to Bountiful’ at Westport I turned to someone and said: ‘This opening night is so different from tele¬ vision. We’re going to do this play again and again. We can work on it and have the challenge of making it fresh and real and honest night after night, and this is just very satisfying.’ ” Pretty good reason.