suddenly!A legendary female actor passed away

According to several US media reports, Marsha Hunt, a legendary actor in the "Golden Age" of Hollywood, has drove to the west on September 7, local time to enjoy the age of 104.

Martha Hunter has been active in Hollywood since the 1930s. He has signed Paramount and MGM Films. He has encountered McCarthyism in the United States. People, her career and life have encountered huge setbacks, but she never felt regrets. It was the example of the Hollywood "Golden Age" conscience actor.

Martha Hunter when he was young

Martha Hunter was born in Chicago on October 17, 1917. After graduating from junior high school, she became a professional model, and then went to London, England to study for performances. In 1935, at the age of 17, she moved to Hollywood and signed an actor contract of $ 250 with Paramount. She soon became female No. 1 and starred in the "The Glamour Girls". A few years later, she switched to MGM's gate. In the version of "Aviation and Prejudice" starring in Lawrence Oliver in 1940, she played the third Mary Bennett. "Raw Deal, 1948) and so on.

Martha Hunt played Mary Banneter in the 1940 edition of "Pride and Bad"

Martha Hunt in the black movie "Unexplained Encounter"

Entering the late 1940s, the global political situation changed, McCarthyism was raised in the United States, and Hollywood became the target of the right conservatives. The House of Representatives Non -American Activity Investigation Committee (HUAC) requested that well -known leftists in the film industry passed by everyone, and they were unwilling to cooperate with the charges of contempting Congress and became prisoners, that is, the so -called "Hollywood Ten Gentlemen" in American film history.

In order to protest, the famous director John Houston, William Waller and actor Mana Roy, Humphrele Baojia and others initiated an action organization entitled "First Amendment Committee". In October 1947, On the 27th, the chartered aircraft flew to the capital Washington to publicize the wrong practice to the House of Representatives' Non -American Activity Investigation Committee. Among these 30 participants, Martha Hunter and her screenwriter husband Robert Presnel Jr.. Three days later, the group of people returned to Los Angeles and was soon found to talk to various film companies, asking for changing their wrong stances, and no longer participating in left political activities. Of the thirty people, some immediately changed their strings, and some chose to go overseas, but many people, like Martha Hunter, were resolutely unwilling to bow their heads and repent.

On June 22, 1950, the right -wing "Couterattack" published a booklet called "Red Channels", which listed 151 in detail, all from the American literary and art circles. According to the booklet, these people may sympathize with or participate in various communist activities to endanger US national security. Martha Hunter's name was also listed, and he lost the opportunity to appear in Hollywood's mainstream film companies.

In the next decades, Martha Hunter, who has appeared in more than 50 mainstream Hollywood movies in more than 20 years of debut, has changed sharply. Essence Fortunately, the New York drama industry at that time was relatively affected by the political atmosphere. She was able to obtain a place in Broadway, at least her livelihood would not be a problem.

In 1971, the anti -war film "Johnny Got His Gun", which won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Award, was written by Darton Trump, one of the "Ten Gentlemen in Hollywood", and directed by Martha Hunter. The mother of the protagonist Johnny, invited, has become one of the most important film works in her life. In 2015, the documentary "Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity" came out, focusing on her ups and downs from her debut to her old age, especially the difficult years of being included in the blacklist.

The documentary "The Sweet Thoughts of Martha Hunt" focuses on her ups and downs of life

96 -year -old Martha Hunt was interviewed for the documentary "The Sweet Thoughts of Martha Humart"

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