Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1917)

Marsha Hunt
Hunt in a 1959 publicity photo
Born	Marcia Virginia Hunt (1917-10-17)October 17, 1917 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	September 7, 2022(2022-09-07) (aged 104) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education	Horace Mann School
Occupations	Actress model activist
Years active	1935–2014
Works	Full list
Spouses	Jerry Hopper ​ ​ (m. 1938; div. 1943)​ Robert Presnell Jr. ​ ​ (m. 1946; died 1986)​
Children	1

Marsha Hunt (born Marcia Virginia Hunt;^[1] October 17, 1917 – September 7, 2022) was an American actress with a career spanning nearly 80 years. She was blacklisted by Hollywood film studio executives in the 1950s during McCarthyism.^[2]

She appeared in many films, including Born to the West (1937) with John Wayne, Pride and Prejudice (1940) with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier, Kid Glove Killer (1942) with Van Heflin, Cry 'Havoc' (1943) with Margaret Sullavan and Joan Blondell, The Human Comedy (1943) with Mickey Rooney, Raw Deal (1948) with Claire Trevor, The Happy Time (1952) with Charles Boyer, and Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun (1971).

In the midst of the blacklist era, she became active in the humanitarian cause of world hunger and in her later years aided homeless shelters, supported same-sex marriage, raised awareness of climate change, and promoted peace in Third World countries.^[3]