Post by teleadm on Dec 2, 2022 22:01:44 GMT
She was the original "Stella" both on stage and in the film version that earned her an Oscar, A Streecar Named Desire 1951. Before that she had been David Niven's object of affection in a Matter of Life and Death 1946 by Powell and Pressburger. Like many others she was blacklisted by HUAC in the 1950's. In later years she acted masked as Zira in three Planet of the Apes movies and for those who watch American soaps The Edge of Night 1979 - 1980.
This year we celebrate her 100th birthdate in Detroit Michigan USA.
Kim Hunter (1922-2002)
Her mother was a trained concert pianist and her father was are refrigeration engineer, and she was of English and Welsh descent. Where she got the acting bug is unclear to OP.
Screen debut came in Val Lewton's The Seventh Victim 1943
With David Niven in Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death 1946.
In 2004, a poll by the magazine Total Film of 25 film critics named A Matter of Life and Death the second-greatest British film ever made (behind Get Carter 1971). Alfred Hitchcock is said to have suggested her for the part.
A Streetcar Named Desire 1951.Recreating that role in the 1951 film version, she won both the Academy and Golden Globe awards for Best Supporting Actress.In the interim, however, in 1948, she had already joined with Streetcar co-stars Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, and 47 others, to become one of the first members accepted by the newly created Actors Studio.
With Humphrey Bogart in Deadline USA 1952
She never had the chance to ride on a her newly won fame.
With Jack Palance on Playhouse 90 Requeim for a Heavyweight 1956 TV, a return to the limelight.
The Young Stranger 1957 with James MacArthur was one of her better roles in the late 1950's. The screen directing debut of John Frankenheimer.
Other movies of that period was Bermuda Affair 1956, Storm Center 1956 and Money, Women and Guns 1959, not exactly award winning movies.
Up until she passed away she guest starred in both well-known and lesser-remembered TV series from the mid-1950's and forward, the last in 2001.
With Warren Beatty in Lilith 1964
As Dr. Zira kissing the ugly Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes 1968, she would return in the same role in Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970 and Escape from the Planet of the Apes 1971.
She acted in a controversial NBC movie Born Innocent 1974 as an unfeeling mother. It deals with the physical, psychological and sexual abuse of a teenage girl (Linda Blair), and was the highest-rated television movie to air in the United States in 1974.
Could such a movie for TV be made today?
With John Cusack in Clint Eastwood's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 1997, last role in a major movie.
Despite HUAC she managed to act in over 135 movies and television productions between 1943 and 2001.
Long before nearly anyone seen on TV wrote cook books she wrote this one, first published in 1975.
The above was just a few fragments of a long acting career.
Thanks for watching!
Opinions of all kinds are as always welcome!
This year we celebrate her 100th birthdate in Detroit Michigan USA.
Kim Hunter (1922-2002)
Her mother was a trained concert pianist and her father was are refrigeration engineer, and she was of English and Welsh descent. Where she got the acting bug is unclear to OP.
Screen debut came in Val Lewton's The Seventh Victim 1943
With David Niven in Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death 1946.
In 2004, a poll by the magazine Total Film of 25 film critics named A Matter of Life and Death the second-greatest British film ever made (behind Get Carter 1971). Alfred Hitchcock is said to have suggested her for the part.
A Streetcar Named Desire 1951.Recreating that role in the 1951 film version, she won both the Academy and Golden Globe awards for Best Supporting Actress.In the interim, however, in 1948, she had already joined with Streetcar co-stars Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, and 47 others, to become one of the first members accepted by the newly created Actors Studio.
With Humphrey Bogart in Deadline USA 1952
She never had the chance to ride on a her newly won fame.
With Jack Palance on Playhouse 90 Requeim for a Heavyweight 1956 TV, a return to the limelight.
The Young Stranger 1957 with James MacArthur was one of her better roles in the late 1950's. The screen directing debut of John Frankenheimer.
Other movies of that period was Bermuda Affair 1956, Storm Center 1956 and Money, Women and Guns 1959, not exactly award winning movies.
Up until she passed away she guest starred in both well-known and lesser-remembered TV series from the mid-1950's and forward, the last in 2001.
With Warren Beatty in Lilith 1964
As Dr. Zira kissing the ugly Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes 1968, she would return in the same role in Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970 and Escape from the Planet of the Apes 1971.
She acted in a controversial NBC movie Born Innocent 1974 as an unfeeling mother. It deals with the physical, psychological and sexual abuse of a teenage girl (Linda Blair), and was the highest-rated television movie to air in the United States in 1974.
Could such a movie for TV be made today?
With John Cusack in Clint Eastwood's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 1997, last role in a major movie.
Despite HUAC she managed to act in over 135 movies and television productions between 1943 and 2001.
Long before nearly anyone seen on TV wrote cook books she wrote this one, first published in 1975.
The above was just a few fragments of a long acting career.
Thanks for watching!
Opinions of all kinds are as always welcome!