One of Hollywood’s Golden Age actors, Marsha Hunt, passed away Wednesday at the age of 104.
The late actor made more than 100 appearances in movies and TV shows since arriving in Hollywood in 1935.
Hunt was named by MGM “Hollywood’s Youngest Character Actress” and she appeared on the cover of Life magazine in the early 50s. But suddenly, she was labeled a “communist” by the House Un-American Activities Committee and placed on a blacklist.
“I’d made 54 movies in my first 16 years in Hollywood,” Hunt recalled in 1996. “In the last 45 years, I’ve made eight. That shows what a blacklist can do to a career.”
She then focused on theater for years until she started getting film work again, appearing in “The Lady’s Not for Burning,” “The Tunnel of Love” and on Broadway’s “The Devil’s Disciple” and “Legend of Sarah.”
