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Sep 11, 2022 · Marsha Hunt chats with Roger C. Memos, who made a documentary about her in 2015. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) Born in Chicago on Oct. 17, 1917, Marcia Virginia Hunt was the daughter of Earl Hunt, a lawyer and insurance executive, and Minabel Hunt, a voice teacher and organist.
Hunt became what she called a "planet patriot" after seeing firsthand the plight of Third World countries, often making appearances on behalf of the United Nations. She was recognized for her charitable works in 2015, receiving the inaugural Marsha Hunt Award for Humanity, created by Kat Kramer, daughter of director and Blacklist defier Stanley ...
Sep 10, 2022 · Tracy Connor. Marsha Hunt, the film actress who was blacklisted after she fought the witch hunt for communists in Hollywood in the 1950s, has died at the age of 104. An ex-model who appeared in ...
Mar 23, 2020 · Marsha Hunt never wanted to do anything except act. Born in 1917, she grew up in New York City and remembers going to the theatre with her father when she was five. "It was a Gilbert and Sullivan ...
Oct 26, 2020 · There are plenty of Black women who embodied the spirit of the ’60s, but Marsha Hunt was another level of ferocity. A true renaissance woman, the model, activist, actress, singer and muse first ...
Sep 10, 2022 · Hunt, who appeared in more than 100 movies and TV shows, died Wednesday at her home in Sherman Oaks, California, said Roger Memos, the writer-director of the 2015 documentary “Marsha Hunt’s ...
Sep 11, 2022 · In the 2015 documentary Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity, she remembered almost getting the part of Melanie Wilkes in Gone with the Wind, even being assured by producer David Selznick.
