Marsha Hunt
Age: 106 | From: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1917-10-17 15:09:41
Aliases: Marcia Virginia Hunt
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Movie Involvements: 50
TV Involvements: 23
Most Famous Work
Biography
Marsha Hunt (born Marcia Virginia Hunt; October 17, 1917) is an American retired actress, model, and activist, with a career spanning over 70 years. She was blacklisted by Hollywood film studio executives in the 1950s during McCarthyism. Although initially reluctant to pursue a film career, in June 1935, at age 17, Hunt signed a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures. Paramount discovered her when she was visiting her uncle in Los Angeles and the comedian Zeppo Marx saw a picture of her in the newspaper. She was then offered a screen test for The Virginia Judge. At Paramount, Hunt mainly played ingenue parts. Between 1935 and 1938, she made 12 pictures at Paramount, including a starring roles in Easy to Take, Gentle Julia, The Accusing Finger, Murder Goes to College, and two on "loan-out" to RKO and 20th Century Fox. In 1937, she starred opposite John Wayne, a couple of years prior to his breakthrough in Hollywood, in the Western film Born to the West. The studio terminated Hunt's contract in 1938, and she spent a few years starring in B-films produced by poverty row studios such as Republic Pictures and Monogram Pictures. She also headed to New York City for work in summer stock theatre shortly before winning a supporting role in MGM's These Glamour Girls opposite Lana Turner and Lew Ayres. The role of Betty was said to have been written specially with Hunt in mind. Other roles in major studio productions soon followed, including supporting roles as Mary Bennet in MGM's version of Pride and Prejudice with Laurence Olivier and as Martha Scott's surrogate child Hope Thompson in Cheers for Miss Bishop. In 1941, Hunt signed a contract with MGM, where she remained for the next six years. While filming Blossoms in the Dust, film director Mervyn LeRoy lauded Hunt for her heartfelt and genuine acting ability. In 1944, she polled seventh in a list by exhibitors of "Stars of Tomorrow". She also appeared in None Shall Escape, a film that is now regarded as the first about the Holocaust. She played Marja Pacierkowski, the Polish fiancé of a German Nazi officer named Wilhelm Grimm.
Most Famous Work
Star Trek: The Next Generation
(1987) Anne Jameson
The Twilight Zone
(1959) Mrs. Henderson
Murder, She Wrote
(1984) Elvira Tree
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(1956) Catha Duncan
Studio One
(1948) Kate Brookfield (uncredited)
The Outer Limits
(1963) Francesca Fields
The Philco Television Playhouse
(1948) Phoebe Throssel
Run for Your Life
(1965) Mrs. SouthworthActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | N/A | |
| 2015 | Self | |
| 2010 | Self | |
| 2008 | Norah Strinberg | |
| Hazel Reedy | ||
| 2006 | N/A | |
| 1996 | Herself | |
| 1988 | (archive footage) | |
| 1987 | Anne Jameson | |
| 1986 | N/A | |
| 1984 | Elvira Tree | |
| 1981 | Marge | |
| 1974 | N/A | |
| 1973 | N/A | |
| 1972 | Dr. Gehlen | |
| 1971 | Joe's Mother | |
| 1969 | Mrs. Bellows | |
| Mrs. Varney | ||
| 1968 | Claudia Loring | |
| N/A | ||
| 1967 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1965 | Mrs. Southworth | |
| 1964 | Mrs. Ely | |
| 1963 | Francesca Fields | |
| N/A | ||
| 1962 | N/A | |
| 1961 | N/A | |
| Gloria Bonner | ||
| Della Martin | ||
| 1960 | Kate Miller | |
| Aunt Cecile Blackman | ||
| 1959 | N/A | |
| Mrs. Henderson | ||
| N/A | ||
| Jessie Bartley | ||
| Jennifer Peck | ||
| 1957 | Edith Brennan | |
| Kate Hazelton | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1956 | Dr. Sarah Martin | |
| Catha Duncan | ||
| Julie Reynolds | ||
| Claire Andrews | ||
| Anne Dobson | ||
| 1955 | N/A | |
| Blanche Herbert | ||
| Sarah | ||
| Alice | ||
| 1954 | Julie Brennan | |
| Ann Williams | ||
| Judy Anderson | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1952 | Susan Bonnard | |
| Marcia Tillayou (segment Actor's Blood) | ||
| 1950 | N/A | |
| 1949 | Mary Ryan | |
| Martha Wier | ||
| Mrs. Hartley's Secretary (uncredited) | ||
| 1948 | Kate Brookfield (uncredited) | |
| Janet Willson | ||
| Viola | ||
| Phoebe Throssel | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Ann Martin | ||
| Francine Taylor | ||
| 1947 | Martha Gray | |
| Nora Ryan | ||
| 1946 | Evie O'Connor | |
| 1945 | Constance Scott | |
| 1944 | Rosalind | |
| Sylvia Lockwood | ||
| Marja Pacierkowski | ||
| (archive footage) | ||
| 1943 | Katie Mallory | |
| Flo Norris | ||
| Marsha Hunt | ||
| Freddie Andrews | ||
| Diana Steed | ||
| 1942 | Regina 'Reggie' Van Maaster | |
| Leila Tree | ||
| Martha Lindstrom | ||
| Jane Mitchell | ||
| Mary Smith | ||
| 1941 | Gail Fenton | |
| Charlotte | ||
| Pauline Miller | ||
| Katherine Logan | ||
| Hope Thompson | ||
| Agatha Hall | ||
| 1940 | Claire | |
| Barbara Braun | ||
| Mary Bennet | ||
| Jane Taylor | ||
| Self | ||
| Miss Eleanor Worth | ||
| 1939 | Kitty Crusper | |
| Herself (uncredited) | ||
| Betty Ainsbridge | ||
| Lucy Morgan | ||
| Susan Bowen | ||
| Barbara Burnette | ||
| Martha Sharon | ||
| 1938 | Valerie Taylor | |
| 1937 | Judy Worstall | |
| Amy Morgan | ||
| Julia Clemens | ||
| Girl Getting Coat Dropped on Her at Finale (uncredited) | ||
| Nora Barry | ||
| 1936 | Sylvia Smith | |
| Claire Patterson | ||
| Donna Westlake | ||
| Patricia Blakeford | ||
| Harriett Lindsay | ||
| Julia Atwater | ||
| Judith 'Judy' Belding | ||
| 1935 | Mary Lee Calvert | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
