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Kim Hunter was born Janet Cole to Donald Cole and Grace (nee Lind) in Chicago, Illinois in 1922, and lived there until she moved to Miami Beach with her family at the age of ten. She began acting as early as 1939 playing the role of Penny in Penny Wise. The Summer after Graduation from High School, she was the ingenue with a stock company in Flat Rock, N.C. Subsequently she appeared in stock ...
Sep 12, 2002 · Kim Hunter, the versatile stage and film actress who won 1951's Academy Award for best supporting actress as Stella Kowalski, Blanche Dubois' long-suffering sister in "A Streetcar Named Desire ...
A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 American Southern Gothic drama film adapted from Tennessee Williams 's Pulitzer Prize -winning play of the same name. It is directed by Elia Kazan, and stars Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden. The film tells the story of a Mississippi Southern belle, Blanche DuBois, who, after ...
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 ...
Sep 11, 2002 · Kim Hunter was an American film, theatre, and television actress. She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the
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.
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.
