Marsha Hunt Articles

Former MGM contract actress Marsha Hunt, Academy Special Events Programmer Ellen Harrington, and former MGM contract actress (and Gone with the Wind supporting player) Ann Rutherford at the opening of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences‘ new exhibitions "Art of the Movie Poster: Illustrated One-sheets and Design Concepts from the Paul Crifo Archive" and "Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-1936," on [...]

In his blog, Allan Ellenberger speaks with Marsha Hunt about Anthony Dexter, who played Rudolph Valentino in the 1951 biopic Valentino (right), and with whom Hunt co-starred in a stage production of The King and I. Here are a couple of quotes: "Of course I remember Valentino. By the age of eight I had already seen The Sheik and his films with Vilma Banky. Valentino [...]

Marsha Hunt: Part II In 1960, 15 years after the end of World War II, 25 million uprooted people remained stateless, jobless, and homeless. The United Nations declared 1960 "World Refugee Year." To bring attention to the plight of those suffering, Marsha and Robert researched, wrote, and produced an hour-long documentary named A Call from the Stars. Marsha enlisted 14 of her prominent celebrity friends [...]

Marsha Hunt: Part I Sixty years ago, on November 25, 1947, the heads of the major studios and several independent producer organizations met at the Waldorf Astoria to address the issue of communist infiltration in motion pictures. In a historic proclamation known as the Waldorf Statement, the studio heads and producers voted unanimously to refuse employment to the Hollywood Ten as well as to any [...]