Marsha Hunt

Marsha Virginia HuntMoore, Solomon. "Move to Valley Signaled Career Upswing". Los Angeles Times June 11, 1997  (October 17, 1917 – September 7, 2022) was an American movie, theater, and television actress. She was blacklisted by Hollywood movie studio executives in the 1950s. She was known for her roles in Johnny Got His Gun, Raw Deal, Born to the West, Pilot No. 5, and in Pride and Prejudice.Slide, Anthony. Actors on Red Alert: Career Interviews with Five Actors and Actresses Affected by the Blacklist pp 47-49 Scarecrow Press, 1999

Hunt was born on October 17, 1917, in Chicago. She turned 100 in October 2017.

She was also supportive of humanitarian causes such as fighting world hunger. She has also donated to homeless shelters, supported same-sex marriage, raised awareness of climate change and supported peace in Third World countries.

In 1960, Hunt received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Hunt married producer Jerry "Jay" Hopper from 1938.Slide, pp. 56-57.  They divorced in 1943. Hunt married her second husband, screenwriter and radio director Robert Presnell Jr. in 1946.  She had a premature daughter who died in 1947. She and her second husband later became foster parents.Slide, p. 60 They remained together until his death in 1986.

Hunt died on September 7, 2022 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 104.

References

Other websites

 Marsha Hunt documentary film 

 Interview with Glenn Lovell for 50 YEARS: SAG REMEMBERS THE BLACKLIST
 Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth on PBS's "Newshour" about Blacklisting 
 Attitude Toward Aging with Marsha Hunt, WebMD Live Events Transcript 
Marsha Hunt on the cover of Life magazine ; March 6 1950
 Interview October, 2014 in the Indianapolis Star

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