Marsha Hunt, a star of MGM and Paramount beginning in the 1930s who was blacklisted in Hollywood in the ’50s during Sen.
Eugene McCarthy’s Communist witch hunt, died Wednesday at age 104.Roger Memos, who directed a documentary about Hunt’s life, confirmed the news to The Hollywood Reporter.A former model, Hunt was a standout in such films as John Wayne’s 1937 Western “Born to the West,” 1939’s “The Glamour Girls,” opposite Lana Turner; 1940’s “Pride and Prejudice” and 1948’s beloved noir “Raw Deal.” In 1945, she joined the board of the Screen Actors Guild.Also Read:Bernard Shaw, Legendary CNN Anchor, Dies at 82But her career unraveled after she and her second husband, screenwriter Robert Presnell Jr., joined a Hollywood group that questioned McCarthy’s efforts to root out Communists in American society, including in Hollywood.
In 1950, the right-wing publication Red Channels named her as a potential Communist and
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