Marsha Hunt, one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s who worked with performers ranging from Laurence Olivier to Andy Griffith, has died.
so-called Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s who worked with performers ranging from Laurence Olivier to Andy Griffith in a career disrupted for a time by the McCarthy-era blacklist, has died. She was 104.Sherman Oaks, CaliforniaA Chicago native, she arrived in Hollywood in 1935 and over the next 15 years appeared in dozens of films, from the Preston Sturges comedy "Easy Living" to the adaptation of Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice" that starred Olivier and Greer Garson.
Hunt concentrated on the theater, where the blacklist was not observed, until she began occasionally getting film work again in the late 1950s. She appeared in the touring companies of "The Cocktail Party," "The Lady’s Not for Burning" and "The Tunnel of Love," and on Broadway in "The Devil’s Disciple," "Legend of Sarah″ and "The Paisley Convertible.
Hollywood proved a painful education. In "Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity," she remembered almost getting the part of Melanie Wilkes in "Gone with the Wind," even being assured by producer David O. Selznick. Within days, Olivia de Havilland was announced as the actor who would play Melanie for the 1939 epic.
"I said to myself, ‘Any studio that treats a one-day player that way, really knows how to make pictures.’ They won my loyalty."
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