Marsha Hunt

 Marsha Hunt, born Marcia Virginia Hunt (October 17, 1917 – September 7, 2022)

Hunt was an actress, model and activist, with a career spanning nearly 80 years. She was blacklisted by Hollywood film studio executives in the 1950s during McCarthyism. 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 Sullivan 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. In 1957, her career began to pick up. She appeared in six films during the next three years before announcing her semi-retirement in 1960. Hunt resided in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, in a home she had owned since 1946. She was married twice, and had one child. Hunt died in her home from natural causes on September 7, 2022, age 104. She is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.