former hollywood actress Marsha Hunt He died at the age of 104, according to Hollywood Reporter.
Hunt, who was famously blacklisted in Hollywood for his political activism in the 1940s and ’50s, died of natural causes at his home in Sherman Oaks, Calif., on Wednesday, September 7.
Hunt starred in more than 50 films between 1935 and 1949, according to. new york timesincluding roles Glamor Girls (1939), pride and prejudice (1940), and human comedy (1943).She has also landed multiple television roles, including the character Matlock, murder, she wrote When Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The up-and-coming starlet was on the verge of stardom when her career was derailed by Hollywood’s blacklist after protesting the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), which was “trying to drive communists out of the entertainment industry.” seemed to be on the road. hollywood reporter.
In protest, Hunt and her husband Robert Presnell Jr., Joining the First Amendment Committee questioning the legality of HUAC, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Danny Kate, Johnny Huston Other names in Hollywood.
In 1947, the committee flew to Washington to support fellow creators who were under scrutiny at the HUAC hearings. While many members of the committee eventually backed off and ultimately saved their careers, Hunt refused, costing her career.
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In a 2004 interview film talkDespite being labeled as a communist supporter, Hunt confided in the experience, revealing that she was “never interested in communism”. “I was very interested in the industry, the country and the government,” she said at the time.
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“So I raised my voice and protested like everyone else on that plane. It was bad,” she continued. “Actually, I was told it wasn’t about communism, it was what scared everyone.
After her downfall in the film industry, Hunt continued working in television into the late 1980s, becoming one of the first major Hollywood actresses to devote herself to humanitarian causes. Hunt spent most of her life working with the United Nations and various organizations, including UNICEF and the World Health Organization.
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