Marsha Hunt, Golden Age Hollywood star and blacklist victim, dies at 104
foxnews.comMarsha Hunt, one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s who worked with performers ranging from Laurence Olivier to Andy Griffith in a career disrupted for a time by the McCarthy-era blacklist, has died.
She was 104. Hunt, who appeared in more than 100 movies and TV shows, died Wednesday at her home in Sherman Oaks, California, said Roger Memos, the writer-director of the 2015 documentary "Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity." A Chicago native, she arrived in Hollywood in 1935 and over the next 15 years appeared in dozens of films, from the Preston Sturges comedy "Easy Living" to the adaptation of Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice" that starred Olivier and Greer Garson.
She was well under 40 when MGM named her "Hollywood’s Youngest Character Actress." And by the early 1950s, she was enough of a star to appear on the cover of Life magazine and seem set to thrive in the new medium of television when suddenly "the work dried up," she recalled in 1996.
Marsha Hunt, one of the last surviving actors from the Golden age, died at 104 years old at her home in Sherman Oaks, California. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) The reason, she learned from her agent, was that the communist-hunting Red Channels publication had revealed that she attended a peace conference in Stockholm and other supposedly suspicious gatherings.
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