“And of course that was the dirtiest word in that period that could be used about anybody.”
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Marsha Hunt
Marsha Hunt was an American actress with a career spanning nearly 80 years. She was blacklisted by Hollywood film studio executives in the 1950s during McCarthyism.
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entertainment · American actress (1917–2022) · actor · stage actor · television actor · film actor · also Marsha Hunt, Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1917), Marcia Virginia Hunt, Hunt
Born 17 October 1917 · Died 7 September 2022 · Q267814
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Because we were testing what I had grown up believing in: free speech and love of country. And to find that there were people who questioned that was appalling to me.
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2026· 5 entries
“Because we were testing what I had grown up believing in: free speech and love of country. And to find that there were people who questioned that was appalling to me.”
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“That means no war. That means getting along with each other. And that”
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“And that changes the degree of awareness. I hope I know what”
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“certainly lost a lot of jobs as the blacklist tightened”
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2022· 7 entries
Yahoo: Marsha Hunt, Hollywood actress turned activist, dies at 104
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Yahoo: Marsha Hunt, prolific Hollywood actor who was blacklisted, dies at 104
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Variety: Marsha Hunt, Blacklisted Actress Known for Activism, Dies at 104
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AOL: Marsha Hunt, ’40s movie star and blacklist victim, dies at 104
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The Columbian: Marsha Hunt, Golden Age star and victim of blacklist, dies at 104
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AOL: Marsha Hunt, '40s star and blacklist victim, dies at 104
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Died 2022-09-07.
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2016· 1 entry
Hunt received the Cinecon Legacy Award at the 52nd annual Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Hollywood
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2013· 1 entry
Hunt debuted a clip of a song she wrote 40 years earlier titled "Here's to All Who Love" about love and same-sex marriage
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2008· 1 entry
Hunt appeared in a short film noir, The Grand Inquisitor, as Hazel Reedy, the could-be widow of one of America's most infamous unapprehended serial killers
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2002· 1 entry
Received a Golden Boot Award for her contributions to Western television shows and films
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1999· 1 entry
Was one of the 250 actresses nominated for the American Film Institute's selection of the 25 greatest female screen legends who debuted before 1950
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1997· 1 entry
Appeared as Ethel Thayer in the Santa Susana Repertory Company's production of On Golden Pond
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1995· 1 entry
Hunt stated that she believed producer Richard J
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1993· 1 entry
Her book The Way We Wore: Styles of the 1930s and '40s and Our World Since Then was published by Fallbrook Publishing
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1988· 1 entry
Appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation in the episode "Too Short a Season" as Anne Jameson, wife of an admiral who took an age-reversing drug
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1971· 1 entry
Appeared in the film Johnny Got His Gun, written by fellow blacklist member Dalton Trumbo, playing the mother of the title character, portrayed by Timothy Bottoms
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1967· 1 entry
Had a leading role as Katie's Aunt Cecile in an episode of My Three Sons entitled "The Aunt Who Came To Dinner"
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1962· 1 entry
Appeared in the season-nine episode of Gunsmoke titled "The Glory and the Mud"
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1960· 3 entries
Hunt received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6658 Hollywood Boulevard
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Produced an hour-long telecast about refugee problems that featured stars such as Paul Newman, Jean Simmons, and Bing Crosby
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Hunt appeared in small roles in five films and numerous television shows, including an episode of the medical drama Breaking Point
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1955· 1 entry
After a trip opened her eyes to the issue of hunger in the Third World, Hunt gave speeches throughout the United States, encouraging Americans to join the fight against starvation in the Third World by joining the United
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1950· 2 entries
Work became scarce for Hunt and Presnell
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Hunt was named as a potential Communist or Communist sympathizer (along with 151 other actors, writers, and directors) in the anti-Communist publication Red Channels
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1948· 1 entry
Signing a statement in 1946 issued by the Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions (HICCASP), and speaking at a rally organized by the Progressive Citizens of America in 1946
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1946· 1 entry
“The town turned against us. Just about-face...I was appalled, hurt, shocked that journalism could be so far out in prejudice.”
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1945· 1 entry
Hunt was invited to join the board of the Screen Actors Guild
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1944· 2 entries
Appeared in None Shall Escape, a film that is now regarded as the first about the Holocaust
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Polled seventh in a list by exhibitors of "Stars of Tomorrow"
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1941· 1 entry
Hunt signed a contract with MGM, where she remained for the next six years
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1938· 1 entry
And she spent a few years starring in B-films such as Star Reporter (1939) produced by poverty row studios such as Republic Pictures and Monogram Pictures
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1937· 1 entry
Starred opposite John Wayne, a couple of years before his breakthrough in Hollywood, in the Western film Born to the West
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1917· 2 entries
In Chicago, Illinois, the youngest of two daughters
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Born 1917-10-17.
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