But you lost your career, your good name, your savings, probably your marriage, your friends, if you had been a communist.
Which was still quite legal to be, you know: the Communist Party was still legal in America, running candidates for public office. And that’s just as bad, maybe worse, than being a communist. Don’t question anything, don’t speak out, don’t have your own ideas, don’t be articulate about it, don’t ever be eloquent, and if you ever be one of those things, you’re controversial. “The way you get control is to get everyone to agree with whatever is proper at the time, whatever is accepted. I was told that in fact it wasn’t really about communism - that was the thing that frightened everybody - it was about control and about power. But then I was told, once I was blacklisted, you see, I was an articulate liberal, and that was bad. And so I spoke out and protested like everyone else on that flight. But I was shocked at the behavior of my government and its mistreatment of my industry. “I was very much interested in my industry, my country and my government. “You know, I was never interested in communism,” she said in a 2004 interview. In June 1950, she was listed in Red Channels, the right-wing pamphlet that fingered scores of actors, directors, screenwriters and others for being sympathetic to “subversive” causes. While that helped save their careers, Hunt did not repent. However, Bogart and others quickly backpedaled, saying they were duped by communists and their trip to Washington was ill-advised. She portrayed the dowdy sister Mary Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (1940), and in Anthony Mann’s film noir classic Raw Deal (1948), she was the good girl opposite Claire Trevor and Dennis O’Keefe. Playing Walter Brennan’s sweetheart in Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939), Hunt aged from age 16 to 65 onscreen.
Hunt also appeared opposite Mickey Rooney in the best picture Oscar nominee The Human Comedy (1943) during a period in which she was known as “Hollywood’s Youngest Character Actress.”Ī former model who signed with Paramount Pictures at age 17, the Chicago native made her first big splash as a suicidal co-ed opposite Lana Turner in MGM’s These Glamour Girls (1939). Memos - director of the documentary Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity - told The Hollywood Reporter. She passed away from natural causes on Tuesday evening at her Sherman Oaks home, where she had lived since 1946, Roger C. Marsha Hunt, the bright-eyed starlet who stood out in such films as These Glamour Girls, Pride and Prejudice and Raw Deal before her career came unraveled by the communist witch hunt that hit Hollywood, has died.
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