Kim Hunter
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| Image:KimHunter DavidNiven.jpg in A Matter of Life and Death with David Niven | ||||||||||
| Birth name | Janet Cole | |||||||||
| Born | November 12 1922 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. | |||||||||
| Died | September 11 2002 (aged 79) New York, New York, U.S. | |||||||||
| Spouse(s) | William Baldwin (1944-1946) Robert Emmett (1951-2000) | |||||||||
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Kim Hunter (November 12, 1922 – September 11, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress.
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[edit] Early life
Hunter was born Janet Cole in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Donald Cole and Grace Lind. She attended Miami Beach High School.
[edit] Career
Hunter performed in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), playing the role of Stella Kowalski. She appeared in the 1951 film, for which she won both the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture.
She appeared opposite Mickey Rooney in the 1957 live broadcast of The Comedian, a harrowing drama written by Rod Serling and directed by John Frankenheimer.
She was blacklisted from film and television during the Hollywood communism paranoia created by McCarthyism.
Her other major film roles include David Niven's love interest in the classic film A Matter of Life and Death (1946), and Zira the chimpanzee scientist in the first three of the Planet of the Apes series. She also appeared in several soap operas, most notably as Nola Madison on The Edge of Night, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 1980 as Best Actress. She also starred in several episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater in the mid seventies.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Kim Hunter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1617 Vine Street and a second star at 1715 Vine Street.
[edit] Death
In 2002, Kim Hunter died of cardiac arrest in New York City at the age of 79.
[edit] Selected filmography
- The Seventh Victim (1943)
- Tender Comrade (1943)
- When Strangers Marry (1944)
- A Canterbury Tale (1944) (US version only)
- You Came Along (1945)
- A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
- Storm Center (1956)
- Lilith (1964)
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- The Swimmer (1968)
- Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
- Born Innocent (1974) (TV movie)
- Bad Ronald (1974)
- Three Sovereigns for Sarah (1985) (TV miniseries)
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Josephine Hull for Harvey | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1951 for A Streetcar Named Desire | Succeeded by Gloria Grahame for The Bad and the Beautiful |
| Preceded by Josephine Hull for Harvey | Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture 1952 for A Streetcar Named Desire | Succeeded by Katy Jurado for High Noon |
[edit] External links
- Kim Hunter at the Internet Movie Database
- Kim Hunter memorial at Find A Gravede:Kim Hunter
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Categories: 1922 births | 2002 deaths | American film actors | American soap opera actors | American stage actors | American television actors | Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winners | Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe (film) | Hollywood blacklist | Hollywood Walk of Fame | Members of Art Students League of New York | People from Detroit | People from Miami | Deaths by myocardial infarction
