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.