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Marsha Hunt, ’40s star and blacklist victim, dies at 104

TORONTO (AP) – Actor Marsha Hunt, an elegant star of 1930s and 1940s films whose career was disrupted by Hollywood’s blacklist, has died. She was 104. Roger Memos says she died at her home in Sherman Oaks, California. Memos wrote and directed the documentary “Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity.” Hunt was an established actor, appeared on Life magazine covers and was a rising star in the new medium of television when the work dried up because of allegations about her liberal activism. She concentrated on the theater until more television and film roles came her way again in the late 1950s. Among her films were “Flight Command,” “Pride and Prejudice” and “The Human Comedy.”