Marsha Hunt (born Marcia Virginia Hunt; October 17, 1917 – September 7, 2022) was an American actress, model and activist, with a career spanning nearly 80 years. She was blacklisted by Hollywood film studio executives in the 1950s during McCarthyism.Although initially reluctant to pursue a film career, in June 1935, at age 17, Hunt signed a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures. Paramount discovered her when she was visiting her uncle in Los Angeles and the comedian Zeppo Marx saw a picture of her in the newspaper. She was then offered a screen test for The Virginia Judge. At Paramount, Hunt mainly played ingenue parts. Between 1935 and 1938, she made 12 pictures at Paramount, including a starring roles in Easy to Take, Gentle Julia, The Accusing Finger, Murder Goes to College, and two on loan-out to RKO and 20th Century Fox. In 1937, she starred opposite John Wayne, a couple of years prior to his breakthrough in Hollywood, in the Western film Born to the West.The studio terminated Hunts contract in 1938, and she spent a few years starring in B-films produced by poverty row studios such as Republic Pictures and Monogram Pictures. She also headed to New York City for work in summer stock theatre shortly before winning a supporting role in MGMs These Glamour Girls opposite Lana Turner and Lew Ayres. The role of Betty was said to have been written specially with Hunt in mind. Other roles in major studio productions soon followed, including supporting roles as Mary Bennet in MGMs version of Pride and Prejudice with Laurence Olivier and as Martha Scotts surrogate child Hope Thompson in Cheers for Miss Bishop.In 1941, Hunt signed a contract with MGM, where she remained for the next six years. While filming Blossoms in the Dust, film director Mervyn LeRoy lauded Hunt for her heartfelt and genuine acting ability. In 1944, she polled seventh in a list by exhibitors of Stars of Tomorrow. She also appeared in None Shall Escape, a film that is now regarded as the first about the Holocaust. She played Marja Pacierkowski, the Polish fiancé of a German Nazi officer named Wilhelm Grimm.
Mrs. Hartley's Secretary (uncredited)
Filme 1949
Marsha Hunt
Filme 1943
Mary Bennet
Filme 1940
Joe's Mother
Filme 1971
Jane Mitchell
Filme 1942
Marja Pacierkowski
Filme 1944
Martha Gray
Filme 1947
Diana Steed
Filme 1943
Norah Strinberg
Filme 2008
Flo Norris
Filme 1943
Charlotte
Filme 1941
Marcia Tillayou (segment Actor's Blood)
Filme 1952
Gail Fenton
Filme 1941
Freddie Andrews
Filme 1943
Edith Brennan
Filme 1957
Leila Tree
Filme 1942
Regina 'Reggie' Van Maaster
Filme 1942
Nora Ryan
Filme 1947
Anne Dobson
Filme 1956
Miss Eleanor Worth
Filme 1940
Hazel Reedy
Filme 2008
Claire Patterson
Filme 1936
Jessie Bartley
Filme 1959
Jane Taylor
Filme 1940
Herself
Filme 1996
Kate Hazelton
Filme 1957
Kate Miller
Filme 1960
Harriett Lindsay
Filme 1936
Judith 'Judy' Belding
Filme 1936
Pauline Miller
Filme 1941
Betty Ainsbridge
Filme 1939
Susan Bonnard
Filme 1952
Barbara Burnette
Filme 1939
Julia Clemens
Filme 1937
Evie O'Connor
Filme 1946
Martha Lindstrom
Filme 1942
Sylvia Smith
Filme 1936
Filme 1954
Nora Barry
Filme 1937
Mrs. Varney
Filme 1969
Dr. Gehlen
Filme 1972
Girl Getting Coat Dropped on Her at Finale (uncredited)
Filme 1937
Martha Sharon
Filme 1939
Katherine Logan
Filme 1941
Susan Bowen
Filme 1939
Patricia Blakeford
Filme 1936
Agatha Hall
Filme 1941
Amy Morgan
Filme 1937
Valerie Taylor
Filme 1938
Kitty Crusper
Filme 1939
Alice
Filme 1955
Judy Anderson
Filme 1954
Lucy Morgan
Filme 1939
Herself (uncredited)
Filme 1939
Hope Thompson
Filme 1941
Marge
Filme 1981
Self
Filme 1940
(archive footage)
Filme 1944
Self (archive footage)
Filme 1988
Mary Lee Calvert
Filme 1935
Self
Filme 2015
Donna Westlake
Filme 1936
Filme 2021
Filme 2006
Julia Atwater
Filme 1936
Herself
Filme 2006
Midge Mercer
Filme 1949
Elvira Tree
Tv 1984
Gloria Bonner
Tv 1961
Anne Jameson
Tv 1987
Aunt Cecile Blackman
Tv 1960
Janet Willson
Tv 1948
Tv 1967
Blanche Herbert
Tv 1955
Tv 1974
Mrs. Southworth
Tv 1965
Self
Tv 2010
Tv 1973
Tv 1950
Ann Williams
Tv 1954
Mrs. Ely
Tv 1964
Tv 1967
Tv 1959
Tv 1961
Tv 1959
Tv 1963
Della Martin
Tv 1961
Tv 1957
Jennifer Peck
Tv 1959
Tv 1968
Francesca Fields
Tv 1963
Claudia Loring
Tv 1968
Kate Brookfield (uncredited)
Tv 1948
Julie Brennan
Tv 1954
Sissy Cardwell
Tv 1967
Elvi Rogers
Tv 1988
Cora Wilcox
Tv 1962