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  Thank You Marsha Hunt: A Truly Great American – Part I The United Nations Association is only one of many, many non-profits that Marsha Hunt has supported over the last 55 years. For her twenty-five years of service to the United Nations Association, Marsha was awarded with the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award, the organization's highest honor. This award meant even more to Marsha because [...]

As we recently celebrated our country’s 234th birthday, I’d like to tell you about a patriotic American I have come to know and love, Marsha Hunt. Many people remember Marsha Hunt as an actress at Paramount and MGM in the ‘30s and ‘40s. Fewer people remember her tireless activist and humanitarian efforts beginning during World War II. Servicemen in Los Angeles, soon to be shipped [...]

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 [...]