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Empire State Building Murders

as Norah Strinberg

2008
Johnny Got His Gun

as Joe's Mother

1971
Fear No Evil

as Mrs. Varney

1969
The Plunderers

as Kate Miller

1960
Bombers B-52

as Edith Brennan

1957
Back from the Dead

as Kate Hazelton

1957
Take One False Step

as Martha Wier

1949
Mary Ryan, Detective

as Mary Ryan

1949
Raw Deal

as Ann Martin

1948
Carnegie Hall

as Nora Ryan

1947
A Letter for Evie

as Evie O'Connor

1946
The Valley of Decision

as Constance Scott

1945
None Shall Escape

as Marja Pacierkowski

1944
Music for Millions

as Rosalind

1944
Cry 'Havoc'

as Flo Norris

1943
Pilot #5

as Freddie Andrews

1943
Joe Smith, American

as Mary Smith

1942
Seven Sweethearts

as Regina 'Reggie' Van Maaster

1942
The Affairs of Martha

as Martha Lindstrom

1942
Unholy Partners

as Gail Fenton

1941
I'll Wait for You

as Pauline Miller

1941
The Penalty

as Katherine Logan

1941
Ellery Queen, Master Detective

as Barbara Braun

1940
Irene

as Miss Eleanor Worth

1940
Star Reporter

as Barbara Burnette

1939
Come On, Leathernecks!

as Valerie Taylor

1938
Born to the West

as Judy Worstall

1937
Marsha Hunt Marsha Hunt

Birthday

1917-10-17

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography

Marsha Hunt (born Marcia Virginia Hunt; October 17, 1917) is an American retired actress, model, and activist, with a career spanning over 70 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.
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