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Kim Hunter. Actor. Born November 12, 1922 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Her father, Donald Cole, was a consulting engineer, and died in 1926 when Kim was only three years old. Her mother, Grace Lind, once performed as a concert pianist. She had one brother who was eight years older than she, and she was educated at Miami Beach High.
Mar 25, 2022 · Unlike her principal co-stars — Brando, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden — Leigh had not taken part in the critically acclaimed Broadway production;norwasshe trained at the Actors Studio. As a ...
Jul 30, 2019 · A troubled Southern belle, Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh), arrives in New Orleans to live with her sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), and brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando). The seemingly genteel and delicate Blanche is shocked by the decrepit state of her sister's French Quarter flat and by the brutish manners of her husband.
In her three-hour interview, Kim Hunter (1922-2002) discusses her Broadway debut in A Streetcar Named Desire, in the role of "Stella Kowalski." She talks about reprising the role in the feature film and earning an Academy Award for that part. She speaks frankly of the effects of the "Red Scare" and how she found herself blacklisted from the industry. She recalls her emergence from the ...
Biography. Read More. This vivacious, brunette will forever be remembered for her Oscar-winning role as Stella Kowalski in Elia Kazan's "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951), a role she had originated on Broadway. Kim Hunter has also amassed an impressive list of stage and television credits in a career that has spanned over 50 years.
Died Sept. 11, 2002 of heart attack in Greenwich Village, NY. T he versatile stage and film actress Kim Hunter won an Academy Award for best supporting actress as Stella Kowalski, Blanche Dubois' long-suffering sister in "A Streetcar Named Desire." Hunter created the stage role of Stella in Tennessee Williams' towering Broadway play and later ...
Sep 26, 1993 · Released to great acclaim in 1951, nominated for a dozen Oscars and winner of four, including acting awards for Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, this Elia Kazan-directed version of ...
