Marsha Hunt

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 Hunt's 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 MGM's 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 MGM's version of Pride and Prejudice with Laurence Olivier and as Martha Scott's 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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1917-10-17

Died: 2022-09-07

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1935	The Virginia Judge	Mary Lee Calvert	0
2	1936	Desert Gold	Judith 'Judy' Belding	54
3	1936	Gentle Julia	Julia Atwater	0
4	1936	The Arizona Raiders	Harriett Lindsay	50
5	1936	Hollywood Boulevard	Patricia Blakeford	25
6	1936	Easy to Take	Donna Westlake	0
7	1936	The Accusing Finger	Claire Patterson	47
8	1936	College Holiday	Sylvia Smith	52
9	1937	Murder Goes to College	Nora Barry	30
10	1937	Easy Living	Girl Getting Coat Dropped on Her at Finale (uncredited)	70
11	1937	Annapolis Salute	Julia Clemens	60
12	1937	Thunder Trail	Amy Morgan	60
13	1937	Born to the West	Judy Worstall	45
14	1938	Come On, Leathernecks!	Valerie Taylor	50
15	1939	The Long Shot	Martha Sharon	58
16	1939	Star Reporter	Barbara Burnette	39
17	1939	The Hardys Ride High	Susan Bowen	58
18	1939	Winter Carnival	Lucy Morgan	60
19	1939	These Glamour Girls	Betty Ainsbridge	55
20	1939	Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga	Herself (uncredited)	35
21	1939	Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President	Kitty Crusper	20
22	1940	Irene	Miss Eleanor Worth	60
23	1940	Hollywood: Style Center of the World	Self	55
24	1940	Women in Hiding	Jane Taylor	70
25	1940	Pride and Prejudice	Mary Bennet	69
26	1940	Ellery Queen, Master Detective	Barbara Braun	57
27	1940	Flight Command	Claire	56
28	1941	The Trial of Mary Dugan	Agatha Hall	50
29	1941	Cheers for Miss Bishop	Hope Thompson	56
30	1941	The Penalty	Katherine Logan	60
31	1941	I'll Wait for You	Pauline Miller	68
32	1941	Blossoms in the Dust	Charlotte	66
33	1941	Unholy Partners	Gail Fenton	70
34	1942	Joe Smith, American	Mary Smith	58
35	1942	Kid Glove Killer	Jane Mitchell	62
36	1942	The Affairs of Martha	Martha Lindstrom	58
37	1942	Panama Hattie	Leila Tree	40
38	1942	Seven Sweethearts	Regina 'Reggie' Van Maaster	60
39	1943	The Human Comedy	Diana Steed	63
40	1943	Pilot #5	Freddie Andrews	58
41	1943	Thousands Cheer	Marsha Hunt	64
42	1943	Cry 'Havoc'	Flo Norris	63
43	1943	Lost Angel	Katie Mallory	75
44	1944	Twenty Years After	(archive footage)	60
45	1944	None Shall Escape	Marja Pacierkowski	62
46	1944	Bride by Mistake	Sylvia Lockwood	61
47	1944	Music for Millions	Rosalind	60
48	1945	The Valley of Decision	Constance Scott	73
49	1946	A Letter for Evie	Evie O'Connor	67
50	1947	Carnegie Hall	Nora Ryan	52
51	1947	Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman	Martha Gray	61
52	1948	The Inside Story	Francine Taylor	65
53	1948	Raw Deal	Ann Martin	67
54	1949	Jigsaw	Mrs. Hartley's Secretary (uncredited)	48
55	1949	Take One False Step	Martha Wier	55
56	1949	Mary Ryan, Detective	Mary Ryan	55
57	1949	She Loves Me Not	Midge Mercer	0
58	1952	Actors and Sin	Marcia Tillayou (segment Actor's Blood)	52
59	1952	The Happy Time	Susan Bonnard	63
60	1954	With This Ring	Elise Miller John	60
61	1954	Diplomatic Passport	Judy Anderson	70
62	1955	A Word to the Wives...	Alice	10
63	1956	No Place to Hide	Anne Dobson	0
64	1957	Back from the Dead	Kate Hazelton	49
65	1957	Bombers B-52	Edith Brennan	56
66	1959	Blue Denim	Jessie Bartley	52
67	1960	The Plunderers	Kate Miller	58
68	1969	Fear No Evil	Mrs. Varney	67
69	1971	Johnny Got His Gun	Joe's Mother	75
70	1972	Jigsaw	Dr. Gehlen	0
71	1981	Terror Among Us	Marge	48
72	1988	The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind	Self (archive footage)	80
73	1996	Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial	Herself	0
74	2006	Dalton Trumbo: Rebel in Hollywood	Herself	0
75	2006	Chloe's Prayer		0
76	2008	The Grand Inquisitor	Hazel Reedy	60
77	2008	Empire State Building Murders	Norah Strinberg	0
78	2015	Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity	Self	0
79	2021	Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission		90

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Viola	63
2	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Phoebe Throssel	63
3	1948	Studio One	Janet Willson	50
4	1948	Studio One	Kate Brookfield (uncredited)	50
5	1950	Your Show of Shows		63
6	1954	Climax!	Ann Williams	33
7	1954	Climax!	Julie Brennan	33
8	1955	Gunsmoke	Sarah	66
9	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Blanche Herbert	77
10	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour	Mary	54
11	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Claire Andrews	55
12	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Julie Reynolds	55
13	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Dr. Sarah Martin	55
14	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Catha Duncan	55
15	1957	Panic!		0
16	1959	Peck's Bad Girl	Jennifer Peck	0
17	1959	Laramie		64
18	1959	The Twilight Zone	Mrs. Henderson	84
19	1959	The Detectives		56
20	1960	My Three Sons	Aunt Cecile Blackman	65
21	1961	The Defenders	Della Martin	62
22	1961	Cain's Hundred	Gloria Bonner	47
23	1961	Ben Casey		56
24	1962	Sam Benedict	Cora Wilcox	60
25	1963	Breaking Point		73
26	1963	The Outer Limits	Francesca Fields	78
27	1964	Profiles in Courage	Mrs. Ely	50
28	1965	Run for Your Life	Mrs. Southworth	72
29	1967	Ironside		68
30	1967	Ironside	Sissy Cardwell	68
31	1967	Accidental Family		50
32	1968	The Outsider		52
33	1968	The Name of the Game	Claudia Loring	68
34	1969	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Mrs. Bellows	65
35	1973	Police Story		69
36	1974	Harry O		46
37	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Elvira Tree	75
38	1986	Matlock	Harriet	71
39	1987	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Anne Jameson	84
40	1988	The Play on One	Elvi Rogers	60
41	2010	Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood	Self	47

Marsha Hunt

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