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  1. Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity

    Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity

    2014 · Historical drama · 1h 38m

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  1. A young actress, lives the American Dream in Hollywood when she is unfairly blacklisted and her career comes to a screeching halt; triumphing over adversity...

  2. Sep 13, 2015 · Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity: Directed by Roger C. Memos. With Harry Belafonte, Walter Bernstein, Alvah Bessie, Steven Carr Reuben. In 1935, 17 year old aspiring actress Marsha Hunt was discovered in Hollywood.

    • (177)
    • Documentary, Biography, History
    • Roger C. Memos
    • 2015-09-13
  3. Jul 4, 2019 · Film available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TWGX58W Film also available on Tubi TV.com Google Play YouTube, and on Blu-Ray & DVD

    • 3 min
    • 27.3K
    • The Marsha Hunt Documentary Channel
  4. Dec 2, 2020 · Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity (2015) is a documentary about the life of Marsha Hunt, one of the great charecter actresses of the Golden Age of Cinema (and the 50s, and the 60s, etc.). The undaunted Ms. Hunt has faced many a peril in her long life of 103 years.

  5. Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity (2015) gets its title from Act 2, Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s As You Like It: “Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.”

  6. Jul 13, 2018 · Synopsis by Kyle Lavigne. Director Roger C. Memos’s documentary examines the life and career of model, actress and activist Marsha Hunt. It traces her rise to national prominence as a Hollywood screen legend, her blacklisting in the 1950s due to McCarthyism, and her tireless advocacy for the United Nations and its efforts to alleviate global ...

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  8. Jul 23, 2018 · Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity highlights one of the worst epochs of government overreach in the United States. People’s lives and careers were ruined because they refused to answer questions, in hearings held with little evidence to indict anyone.

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