Marsha Hunt
Nacimiento : 1917-10-17, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Muerte : 2022-09-07
Historia
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.
WWII hero with the 4th Emergency Rescue Squadron, Lt. Royal Stratton, leads a deadly mission to save the lives of nine downed airmen adrift in enemy waters of a war-torn South Pacific. Immersive cinematography and gripping action, mixed with firsthand accounts and historical images, showcase the valor of this squadron who faced overwhelming odds to bring their brothers home.
Self
In 1935, 17-year-old aspiring actress Marsha Hunt was discovered in Hollywood. She signed with Paramount Pictures and went on to a flourishing career at MGM. She made 54 films in 17 years before a series of unfortunate events led to her being unfairly blacklisted. After the blacklist, she championed humanitarian causes, forging a career as one of Hollywood's first celebrity activists. She was the FIRST Angelina Jolie. As far back as 1955, Eleanor Roosevelt was a mentor of hers as they both worked tirelessly to support the work that the United Nations Association was accomplishing in this country. At age 96, Marsha continues to fight for causes she believes in. This film is a call to action for activists of all ages.
Norah Strinberg
A tribute and doc-crime-drama celebrating American film noir and the icons of the Hollywood golden age. It recaptures the time and place of New York in the 30's and 40s as well as plays with the codes and references of the genre.
Hazel Reedy
A young woman (Dashe) discovers a cache of used books that she believes holds clues to the solution of decades-old crimes. When the authorities dismiss her, she takes matters into her own hands, ringing the doorbell of Hazel Reedy (Hunt), a lonely recluse who may or may not be the widow of America's most notorious serial killer. Their cross-generational confrontation, played out in real time, leads to an unexpected and shocking conclusion.
2006 drama. Director
Maura Mackey
Writer
Maura Mackey
Stars
Cameron DaddoChloe MackeyTara Stewart
Herself
TV Documentary about one of the darkest chapters in American History,
(archive footage)
Documental que muestra cómo se realizó "Lo que el viento se llevó" desde que David O. Selznick compró los derechos de la novela.
Marge
A police sergeant and a parole officer endeavor to stop a rapist-on-parole before he can follow through his threats on five women whom testifed against him years earlier.
Dr. Gehlen
In this pilot for the 1972-73 series, a detective specializing in missing persons cases finds himself accused of murder after being found unconscious in the apartment of a slain state official.
Joe's Mother
Un joven combatiente de la Primera Guerra Mundial despierta totalmente confuso en un hospital, confinado de por vida, ciego, sordomudo y con las piernas y los brazos amputados a causa de una explosión sucedida durante un bombardeo. Al principio no es consciente de lo que le ha sucedido y en qué condiciones está, pero poco a poco comienza a darse cuenta...
Mrs. Varney
A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by a spirit in an antique mirror. The man's fiance discovers that the mirror is able to bring back her former boyfriend, who had been killed in a car accident, from the dead.
Kate Miller
Cuando cuatro vaqueros alborotadores llegan a un pequeño pueblo y crean problemas, nadie parece estar dispuesto o ser capaz de enfrentarse a ellos, ni siquiera Sam Christy, el hombre más duro del pueblo. Pero luego hay un asesinato.
Jessie Bartley
Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion.
Edith Brennan
Guerra Fría. Desde que realizaron un vuelo de prueba en la guerra de Corea (1950-1953), el sargento Chuck Brennan (Karl Malden), mecánico de aviones, no le tiene ninguna simpatía al célebre piloto Jim Herlihy (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.). Pero Brennan tiene ahora un motivo más importante para detestarlo: Jim tiene un romance con su hija (Natalie Wood). Pero los conflictos personales o domésticos no pueden en modo alguno perturbar las relaciones entre hombres que tienen la obligación de estar preparados incluso en tiempos de paz. La puesta a punto de un nuevo avión: el Stratofortress B-52 de 200 toneladas, exige que el trabajo de equipo sea perfecto.
Kate Hazelton
A woman is possessed by the spirt of her husband's deceased first wife, turning her into a cold, scheming flirt who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. The woman's sister, husband and the sister's new boyfriend struggle with accepting what has happened, who has caused it and how to correct it, which soon brings them into contact with a coven of devil-worshippers and forces of the supernatural.
Anne Dobson
Some pellets containing a deadly virus are carried by two boys on the run through the Philippines.
Alice
The story of two women and how they trick a husband into renovating a kitchen.
Judy Anderson
An American diplomat and his wife arrive in London, and are soon involved in a series of confusing and sometimes frightening events
Susan Bonnard
A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.
Marcia Tillayou (segment Actor's Blood)
Película dividida en dos historias. La primera gira en torno a un actor de Broadway venido a menos; en la segunda el protagonista es un agente literario que tiene como cliente a una niña de 9 años que escribe guiones que rayan en la pornografía. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mary Ryan
A female police detective (Marsha Hunt) enters jail to gain the confidence of a shoplifter and learn the identity of the leader of a stolen goods racket.
Martha Wier
El profesor Andrew Gentling está en Los Ángeles buscando una nueva universidad. Allí se encuentra a una antigua pareja suya, Catherine Sykes. Al día siguiente, Catherine desaparece, y su amiga Martha convence a Andrew de que él es el primer sospechoso. Andrew decide investigar el caso antes de que le arresten, pero esto sólo le pone en peligro.
Mrs. Hartley's Secretary (uncredited)
Howard Malloy, ayudante del fiscal del distrito, investiga una serie de asesinatos. Pronto descubrirá que un grupo extremista está detrás de estos asesinatos.
Ann Martin
La película comienza en la carcel del condado, el convicto Joe Sullivan (O’Keefe) se reune por separado con dos mujeres muy diferentes durante las horas de visita, Ann, una delicada y dulce morena asistente del abogado de Joe que le anima a comportarse para ganarse la libertad condicional en un par de años. La otra mujer es su novia Pat, rubia de rasgos pronunciados de mirada fria, su intención de traladarle a Joe un plan de fuga diseñado para esa misma noche, el objetivo de Joe es ajustar cuentas con su antiguo amigo Rick (Raymond Burr). Un tipo despiadado con tendencias pirómanas que le debe 50 de los grandes, y lo que es peor, su traición provocó el ingreso de Joe en la trena.
Francine Taylor
Un agente de cobro llega a un pequeño pueblo con 1000 dólares para un granjero. Mientras espera a que el agricultor llegue, el dinero es guardado en una caja fuerte de un hotel. Sin embargo, el dinero se saca por error y solventa un serie de problemas antes de ser devuelto.
Martha Gray
Despues de casarse con Ken Conway, un cantante casi desconocido, Angie Evans, una famosa cantante de cabaret, hace uso de todas sus influencias para que su marido triunfe. Tras conseguir la fama, se trasladan al campo y tienen una hija, pero ella se siente muy sola y empieza a beber, y cuanto más famoso se hace su marido más se hunde en la bebida
Nora Ryan
Nora, una joven irlandesa y melómana, trabaja en el Carnegie Hall como chica de la limpieza. Está enamorada de Tony Salerno, un pianista dotado pero rebelde que se enfrenta con el director de orquesta por la diferente concepción que tiene de la interpretación de una pieza de Tchaikovski. Tras la muerte de Tony, la protagonista sigue trabajando en el Carnegie Hall, y se obsesiona con que su hijo, también llamado Tony, triunfe como concertista de piano. Nora lleva todas las noches al pequeño al Carnegie Hall, convirtiendo el edificio en la mejor escuela de música posible.
Evie O'Connor
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.
Constance Scott
Pittsburgh, siglo XIX. Mary Rafferty (Greer Garson), una bella joven que proviene de una familia proletaria, entra a trabajar en casa de la rica familia Scott, que es la propietaria de la fábrica siderúrgica donde trabajan los hombres de su familia. Allí, Mary enseguida atrae la atención del apuesto Paul Scott (Gregory Peck).
Rosalind
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Historia de dos hermanas. Una de ellas, que está embarazada y forma parte de una orquesta, se preocupa por el destino de su marido en el frente.
Sylvia Lockwood
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
Marja Pacierkowski
Through flashbacks, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed.
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Katie Mallory
Una huerfanita es educada de manera que se convierta en un genio, pero un reportero provocará que se escape del instituto donde se haya recluida y le pida que le enseñe el mundo real...
Flo Norris
II Guerra Mundial, Filipinas. Un grupo de enfermeras del ejército estadounidense necesita refuerzos urgentemente. La teniente Mary “Smitty” recibe a un equipo de voluntarias que carecen completamente de experiencia y deberá formarlas en unas circunstancias cada vez más complicadas: los conflictos entre ellas, el avance del ejército japonés y la malaria.
Freddie Andrews
Un pequeño grupo de soldados y pilotos aliados están siendo bombardeados a diario por los japoneses en Java. El comandante elige a uno de los hombres para pilotar el único bombardero y responder al enemigo...
Diana Steed
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Cuando su hermano mayor se va a la guerra, el entrañable Homer Macauley se queda al cuidado de su madre y de su hermano pequeño. El chico trabaja en la oficina de telégrafos del pueblo y, de cuando en cuando, la familia recibe noticias de la guerra.
Marsha Hunt
El joven Eddy (Gene Kelly) intenta montar un espectáculo musical y en el proceso se enamora de la bella Kathryn (Kathryn Grayson), la hija de un coronel.
Regina 'Reggie' Van Maaster
Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.
Leila Tree
Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.
Martha Lindstrom
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
Jane Mitchell
Un químico de la policía (Van Heflin) utiliza técnicas forenses para resolver asesinatos en una ciudad plagada de corrupción política y bandas criminales.
Mary Smith
Joe Smith es el típico americano medio. Trabaja para una fábrica de aviones donde se está construyendo un nuevo bombardero. Este proyecto provoca que Joe sea secuestrado por agentes enemigos. Pero Joe Smith resulta ser todo un héroe americano, pues no sólo no dice nada de lo que sabe, sino que posteriormente ayuda a la policía en su investigación para detener a los secuestradores.
Gail Fenton
A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.
Charlotte
Tras la dolorosa pérdida de su hijo, Edna, una valiente mujer de Texas, decide crear un orfanato para ayudar a los niños más desvalidos y necesitados de ayuda; pero los ciudadanos más conservadores no verán con buenos ojos la creación de una institución de acogida para niños nacidos fuera del matrimonio. Edna luchará incansablemente para conseguir legalizar el orfanato.
Pauline Miller
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
Katherine Logan
In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy sees it all. Fortunately the courts intervene and send the lad off to live with a family of farmers.
Hope Thompson
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.
Agatha Hall
Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. In the process, his defense lawyer acts wrongly against them, and is replaced by a young lawyer, the brother of the accused
Claire
Para cubrir la baja de un piloto muerto en acto de servicio, el ejército envía a Alan Drake de la academia de Pensacola a la base de los fabulosos Hellcats en San Diego. Allí, para ganarse un puesto, tendrá que mostrar su habilidad a bordo de un Grumman F3F -3 biplano, enfrentándose tanto al peligro como a sus propios sentimientos.
Barbara Braun
Ellery Queen (Ralph Bellamy) investiga la enigmática muerte de un millonario que administraba un centro de vacaciones.
Mary Bennet
Elizabeth (Greer Garson) es una de las 5 hermanas Bennet, que están deseando casarse. Darcy (Lawrence Olivier) es un joven apuesto que se instala en una finca cercana y hace latir los corazones de todas las chicas. De todas menos en el caso de Elizabeth, con la que desde el primer encuentro se lleva fatal. Este será el inicio de una historia basada en la lucha discreta y elegante de orgullo y prejuicio, de percepción y realidad, de perdón y de amor.
Jane Taylor
In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospital costs involved. She falls prey to a baby-for-sale racket with quack doctors performing their services.
Self
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.
Miss Eleanor Worth
Irene O'Dare, empleada de un tapicero, conoce al rico Don Marshall mientras mide las sillas de la señora Herman Vincent en su finca de Long Island. Encantado por la jovencita, Don compra anónimamente Madame Lucy, una exclusiva boutique de Manhattan, e instruye al nuevo encargado, el Sr. Smith, para que ofrezca a Irene un trabajo como modelo. Ella pronto llama la atención de Bob Vincent, un famoso cuya madre organiza un baile en la mansión familiar. Con el fin de promover la línea de vestir de Madame Lucy, el Sr. Smith se las arregla para que sus modelos sean invitadas a la fiesta.
Kitty Crusper
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
Herself (uncredited)
Two starstruck visitors to Hollywood sneak into the famous nightclub and end up in a Conga contest and get more than they expected.
Betty Ainsbridge
Un estudiante universitario borracho invita a una chica al gran baile, pero luego olvida que se lo pidió. Cuando ella se presenta en la universidad, él trata de deshacerse de ella, pero la chica no se marcha, se mantiene en sus trece y se deja ver con él ante sus presumidos compañeros de clase.
Lucy Morgan
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.
Susan Bowen
En esta sexta entrega, los Harvey heredan dos millones de dólares y se mudan a Detroit. Allí Andy (Mickey Rooney) se enamora locamente de una corista (Virginia Grey).
Barbara Burnette
An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.
Martha Sharon
A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thoroughbred horse. Despite the rivalries of their parents, the couple prepares to jointly enter the Santa Anita handicap. The odds are against their entry, but Hunt and Jones have every confidence of winning. Just before the starting bugle, gangsters intrude, demanding that the trainers throw the Big Race.
Valerie Taylor
The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines.
Judy Worstall
Dare Rudd (John Wayne) es un vaquero adicto al juego que, de paso por Montana conduciendo ganado, se encuentra con su primo Tom Fillmore (Johnny Mack Brown), respetado e influyente vaquero. Los dos se convierten en rivales por el amor de la novia de Tom, Judy Rustoe (Marsha Hunt), al tiempo que deberán unirse contra unos cuatreros.
Amy Morgan
A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits' leader to justice.
Julia Clemens
The adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy--one the son of a Navy enlisted man, the other the scion of a wealthy family, the third decent but somewhat slow-witted--and their struggles with the rigors of the academy, women, and each other.
Girl Getting Coat Dropped on Her at Finale (uncredited)
J. B. Wall (Arnold) es un rico banquero de Wall Street que está harto de los dispendios económicos tanto de su ocioso hijo John (Milland) como de su esposa Jennie (Nash). Indignado, tira por la azotea la última adquisición de su mujer, un costoso abrigo de marta. El abrigo cae encima de Mary Smith (Jean Arthur), una mecanógrafa que trabaja en una revista infantil.
Nora Barry
Whodunit in a college setting.
Sylvia Smith
Con la esperanza de montar un espectáculo musical, unos estudiantes universitarios de baile y canto van a parar a un ruinoso hotel, donde servirán de conejillos de Indias de un experimento eugenésico.
Claire Patterson
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Donna Westlake
To boost the ratings of a kiddie show, the host agrees to take guardianship of of a bratty boy who has a lovely older sister.
Patricia Blakeford
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Harriett Lindsay
After saving himself from hanging, Laramie Nelson saves Tracks Williams from the same fate. They then travel to Lindsay's ranch where they get jobs. There they run into Adams who they learn is planning to rustle Lindsay's horses.
Julia Atwater
A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers sets things right.
Judith 'Judy' Belding
Chet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location. He has also hired mining engineers Gale and Mortimer to locate the mine. When Gale sees Kasedon's cruelty to Moya, he switches sides.
Mary Lee Calvert
Walter C. Kelly, Marsha Hunt, Stepin Fetchit
