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Disturbed by the actions of the House Committee on Unamerican Activities (HCUA), Hunt and her husband, screenwriter Robert Presnell Jr., became members of the Committee for the First Amendment in 1947. According to NPR, she was – at the time of her 100th birthday – the last surviving member of the group.
Sep 10, 2022 · In 1948 she married film writer Robert Presnell Jr., and they had one daughter, who died soon after her premature birth. Her husband died in 1986. Hunt’s first movie was 1935′s “The...
Presnell was first married to Kay Brown, with whom he had one child named Peter. On February 10, 1946, he married the actress Marsha Hunt, to whom he remained married until his death. Presnell met Hunt at a birthday party for Orson Welles. The Presnells also adopted Chon Kai Yin, an orphan from Hong Kong.
- July 21, 1914, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- June 14, 1986 (aged 71), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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- Screenwriter
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Sep 11, 2022 · Another time while I was sitting at her piano, fingering the keys, she mentioned that her late husband, screenwriter Robert Presnell Jr., had a friend named “Leonard” who played some of the...
Sep 9, 2022 · In 1947, Hunt and her second husband, screenwriter Robert Presnell Jr., joined the Committee for the First Amendment, which questioned the legality of the House Un-American Activities...
Sep 12, 2022 · Hunt marrying her second husband, screenwriter and radio director Robert Presnell Jr, in San Fernando Valley, California, on 10 February 1946. The couple stayed together until his death in...
Sep 11, 2022 · But Hunt and her husband, screenwriter Robert Presnell Jr., offered no such apologies. In June 1950, “Red Channels” denounced 68 actors, 44 writers, 28 musicians, 18 directors, 11...
