“That’s the day I knew I could never have my heart broken again by this profession of acting.” “That’s the day I grew up,” Hunt said in the documentary. Within days, Olivia de Havilland was announced as the actor who would play Melanie for the 1939 epic. In “Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity,” she remembered almost getting the part of Melanie Wilkes in “Gone with the Wind,” even being assured by producer David O.
Hunt’s first movie was 1935′s “The Virginia Judge.” She went on to play demure roles in a series of films for Paramount, including “The Accusing Finger” and “Come on Leathernecks,” but, as she told The Associated Press in 2020, she was tired of “sweet young things” and begged for more substantial work. In 1948 she married film writer Robert Presnell Jr., and they had one daughter, who died soon after her premature birth. Slender and stylish, with a warm smile and large, expressive eyes, Hunt studied drama and worked as a model before making her film debut.Īn early marriage to director Jerry Hopper ended in divorce. Marcia Virginia Hunt (she changed the spelling of her first name later) was born in Chicago and grew up in New York City, daughter of a lawyer-insurance executive and a voice teacher. She appeared in the touring companies of “The Cocktail Party,” “The Lady’s Not for Burning” and “The Tunnel of Love,” and on Broadway in “The Devil’s Disciple,” “Legend of Sarah″ and “The Paisley Convertible.” Hunt concentrated on the theater, where the blacklist was not observed, until she began occasionally getting film work again in the late 1950s. That shows what a blacklist can do to a career.”
“I’d made 54 movies in my first 16 years in Hollywood,” Hunt said in 1996. Alongside Hollywood stars Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart and Danny Kaye, Hunt also went to Washington in 1947 to protest the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was conducting a witch hunt for communists in the film industry. 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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