On Friday, Dec. 11, Turner Classic Movies will present a daylong tribute to SAG-AFTRA member Marsha Hunt, who turned 103 in October. Seven Hunt films will be screened throughout the day, concluding with the broadcast of the 2015 Roger C. Memos documentary Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET.
Hunt joined Screen Actors Guild in 1938 and was a board member from March 1945 to November 1947. Her on-camera career suffered during the period of the Hollywood blacklist, but she turned adversity to social activism and has been working to better the world ever since. In 2018, she was presented with the SAG-AFTRA Founders Award, which honors early members of the union who provided meritorious service to fellow members.
A prolific star from the 1930s through the 1950s, TCM has chosen seven films to showcase Hunt as an actor: Flight Command (1940), Pride and Prejudice (1940), Bombers B-52 (1957), The Valley of Decision (1945), The Human Comedy (1943), Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947) and the comedy Bride by Mistake (1944).
The documentary, Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity, examines a flourishing career torpedoed by the wave of anti-communism paranoia that swept the nation in the 1950s, and how Hunt prevailed as a campaigner for humanitarian causes.
Marsha Hunt regularly appeared on the radio in the 1940s.
While on the SAG National Board, Marsha Hunt walked a picket line at RKO in 1945.
Performing a 1940s radio play for 'Screen Guild Theater', Marsha Hunt with Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson.
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