Actress Marsha Hunt, 100, Has Matters Of Principle
Born in 1917, she was part of Hollywood's golden age and a survivor of its McCarthy-era blacklist — and emerged on the other side as a humanitarian activist.
by Ina Jaffe
Jul 07, 2018
4 minutes
When you're caught up in the turmoil of the moment, it can be good to take the long view. So: Meet actress Marsha Hunt.
Now 100 years old, she was part of the golden age of Hollywood, and then the golden age of live television. She lived through the McCarthy era and survived the Hollywood blacklist and still held onto her ideals.
Hunt usually played the good girl in comedies and dramas, Westerns and war movies, and even in gritty pictures like the 1948 film noir classic . She plays a legal caseworker who falls for a killer, but finally gets wise. The movie wasn't considered much at
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