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Marsha Hunt is a Actor American born on 17 october 1917 at Chicago (USA)

Marsha Hunt

Marsha Hunt
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Birth name Marcia Virginia Hunt
Nationality USA
Birth 17 october 1917 (106 years) at Chicago (USA)

Marsha Virginia Hunt (born October 17, 1917) is a retired American film, theater, and television actress who was blacklisted by Hollywood movie studio executives in the 1950s.

Biography

Hunt is Methodist. She married Jerry "Jay" Hopper, assistant head of the editing department at Paramount, in November 1938. The marriage ended in divorce in 1945. Hunt married her second husband, screenwriter and radio director Robert Presnell, Jr., in 1946. They remained together until his death in 1986 at 71.

Best films

Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
(Actress)

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Filmography of Marsha Hunt (60 films)

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Actress

Terror Among Us, 1h35
Directed by Paul Krasny
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Jennifer Salt, Kim Lankford, Tracy Reed, Ted Shackelford, Austin Stoker, Marsha Hunt
Rating58% 2.9097452.9097452.9097452.9097452.909745
A police sergeant and a parole officer endeavor to stop a rapist-on-parole before he can follow through his threats on five women who testified against him years earlier.
Johnny Got His Gun, 1h51
Directed by Dalton Trumbo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Horror
Themes Films about euthanasia, Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about disabilities, Political films
Actors Timothy Bottoms, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Kathy Fields, Diane Varsi, Marsha Hunt
Roles Joe's Mother
Rating77% 3.8962853.8962853.8962853.8962853.896285
Joe Bonham (Bottoms), a young American soldier hit by an artillery shell during World War I, lies in a hospital bed. He is a quadruple amputee who has also lost his eyes, ears, mouth and nose. He remains conscious and able to reason, but his wounds render him a prisoner in his own body. As he drifts between reality and fantasy, he remembers his old life with his family and girlfriend (Kathy Fields). He also forms a bond, of sorts, with a young nurse (Diane Varsi) who senses his plight.
The Plunderers, 1h34
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Jeff Chandler, John Saxon, Dolores Hart, Marsha Hunt, Jay C. Flippen, Ray Stricklyn
Roles Kate Miller, Hotel Owner
Rating65% 3.286543.286543.286543.286543.28654
Unruly cowboys Rondo, Jeb, Mule and Davy ride into town. They can't pay for their drinks, so Sheriff McCauley jails them for a night. Then they refuse to pay clerk Ellie Walters at the general store, and take rooms at Kate Miller's hotel.
Blue Denim
Blue Denim (1959)
, 1h29
Directed by Philip Dunne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality, Films based on plays
Actors Carol Lynley, Brandon deWilde, Macdonald Carey, Marsha Hunt, Warren Berlinger, Nina Shipman
Roles Jessie Bartley
Rating65% 3.2891053.2891053.2891053.2891053.289105
The story is set in Dearborn, Michigan, during the 1950s, and revolves around sixteen-year-old Arthur Bartley (Brandon deWilde) and his schoolmates, fifteen-year-old Janet Willard (Carol Lynley) and Ernie (Warren Berlinger). While widower's-daughter Janet laughs at Arthur and Ernie's forays into smoking, drinking, and playing cards, she's always been interested in Arthur, and as Arthur's parents try to shelter him from negative things in life (like the euthanasia of the family dog, done while he's at school), he turns to Janet for comfort.
Legend of the Lost, 1h49
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi, Kurt Kasznar, Marsha Hunt
Rating61% 3.052133.052133.052133.052133.05213
In Timbuktu, experienced guide Joe January (John Wayne) reluctantly joins a Saharan treasure hunting expedition led by Paul Bonnard (Rossano Brazzi), a man obsessed with confirming his dead father's claim to have found a lost city. Dita (Sophia Loren), a woman of dubious reputation, becomes infatuated with Paul and his willingness to overlook her past. She invites herself along, despite Joe's protests. During the tough dry ordeal, Joe and Dita become attracted to each other, raising tensions.
Bombers B-52, 1h46
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Marsha Hunt, Efrem Zimbalist II, James Garner, Stuart Whitman
Roles Edith Brennan
Rating59% 2.9500852.9500852.9500852.9500852.950085
The Strategic Air Command is about to introduce the B-52 Stratofortress bomber as its primary manned strategic weapon. Stationed at 329th Bomb Squadron, Castle Air Force Base, California, twenty-year United States Air Force (USAF) veteran Master Sergeant Chuck Brennan (Karl Malden) dislikes his commanding officer, the "hotshot" Lieutenant Colonel Jim Herlihy (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.). Brennan has not trusted Herlihy since an incident in the Korean War. This career-long problem interferes with flight operations and aircraft support. When Herlihy starts dating Brennan's daughter Lois (Natalie Wood), tensions grow. Brennan demands his daughter break off the relationship.
A Word to the Wives..., 12minutes
Directed by Norman Lloyd
Genres Comedy
Actors Marsha Hunt, Darren McGavin
Roles Alice, Jane's friend
Rating41% 2.090052.090052.090052.090052.09005
Housewife Jane Peters is envious of her friend Alice's new ranch house. At her Alice's suggestion, she decides to trick her husband, George, into buying a new kitchen. Jane leaves her husband and son alone while she visits her mother in Cleveland.
Diplomatic Passport
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Marsha Hunt, Honor Blackman, Paul Carpenter, Marne Maitland, Henry Oscar, John Bennett
Roles Judy Anderson
Rating46% 2.3194352.3194352.3194352.3194352.319435
An American diplomat and his wife arrive in London, and are soon involved in a series of confusing and sometimes frightening events.
The Happy Time, 1h34
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Charles Boyer, Louis Jourdan, Marsha Hunt, Bobby Driscoll, Linda Christian, Kurt Kasznar
Roles Susan Bonnard
Rating67% 3.3879853.3879853.3879853.3879853.387985
Young Robert "Bibi" Bonnard (Bobby Driscoll) grows up in Ottawa, Ontario with his parents, Jacques (Charles Boyer) and Susan (Marsha Hunt), and his roving rogue of a grandfather, Grandpere (Marcel Dalio). Across the street is his uncle, amiable drunkard Louis (Kurt Kasznar), who ignores the complaints of his hard-working dressmaker wife Felice (Jeanette Nolan) and her worries about the future of their daughter Yvonne. Louis agitates about meeting his prospective son-in-law, Alfred Grattin, a teetotaler bank clerk who wishes to marry Yvonne. Next-door neighbour and schoolmate Peggy O'Hare (Marlene Cameron) has a crush on Bibi, but he is as yet too young to understand.
Actors and Sin, 1h22
Directed by Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Eddie Albert, Dan O'Herlihy, Marsha Hunt, Peter Brocco, Jack Warner
Roles Marcia Tillayou
Rating53% 2.672742.672742.672742.672742.67274
The film lampoons the Hollywood motion picture industry and is separated into two sections: The first section of the film is Actor's Blood, a morality play about legitimate theater. The second section is Woman of Sin, a send-up of Hollywood greed.
Jigsaw
Jigsaw (1949)
, 1h12
Directed by Fletcher Markle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace, Marc Lawrence, Myron McCormick, Doe Avedon, Robert Gist
Roles Mrs. Hartley's Secretary (uncredited)
Rating55% 2.79982.79982.79982.79982.7998
The title refers to a jigsaw puzzle and the story begins with the murder of a print shop owner that is quickly labeled a suicide. But newspaper columnist Charlie Riggs is convinced that it was a murder related to a white neo-fascist organization called the Crusaders and imparts this suspicion to Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy. He also publishes this opinion in his column. Then Riggs himself is murdered, inducing Malloy to launch an investigation into the Crusaders. Because the group appears to be getting backing from organized crime, Malloy looks there, soon receiving unasked-for help from a crime boss called Angel, who recommends him for the position of special prosecutor.
Take One False Step, 1h34
Directed by Chester Erskine
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors William Powell, Shelley Winters, Marsha Hunt, Dorothy Hart, James Gleason, Felix Bressart
Roles Martha Wier
Rating63% 3.1934453.1934453.1934453.1934453.193445
A married college professor agrees to have a drink with an old girlfriend; the next day he's being hunted for her murder.
Raw Deal
Raw Deal (1948)
, 1h19
Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, John Ireland, Raymond Burr, Whit Bissell
Roles Ann Martin
Rating71% 3.594513.594513.594513.594513.59451
Prisoner Joe Sullivan (Dennis O'Keefe), who has "taken the fall" for an unspecified crime, breaks jail with the help of his girl, Pat (Claire Trevor). Neither Joe nor Pat is aware that the escape has been facilitated as a set-up by mobster Rick Coyle (Raymond Burr), a sadistic pyromaniac, who has arranged for Joe to be killed during the break-out in order to avoid confronting him and paying Joe his agree-upon share of $50,000 for the crime. When the break-out scheme succeeds, contrary to Rick's expectations, Rick decides that he must have Joe done in some other way, by somebody else.