Kim Hunter

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Kim Hunter

in A Matter of Life and Death with David Niven

Born

Janet Cole
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)

Awards won
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actress 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire
Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture 1952 A Streetcar Named Desire

Kim Hunter (November 12, 1922 – September 11, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress.

1 Early life
2 Career
3 Death
4 Selected filmography
5 References
6 External links

[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 first film role was in the famous film noir The Seventh Victim in 1943.

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 period of paranoia about communism in Hollywood that was 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

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1943	The Seventh Victim	Mary Gibson
1943	Tender Comrade	Doris Dumbrowski
1944	When Strangers Marry	Millie Baxter
1944	A Canterbury Tale	Johnson's Girl	US release
1945	You Came Along	Frances Hotchkiss
1946	A Matter of Life and Death	June
1951	A Streetcar Named Desire	Stella Kowalski	Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role; Golden Globe
1952	Deadline - U.S.A.	Nora Hutcheson
1952	Anything Can Happen	Helen Watson
1956	Storm Center	Martha Lockridge
1956	Bermuda Affair	Fran West
1957	The Young Stranger	Helen Ditmar
1959	Money, Women and Guns	Mary Johnston Kingman
1964	Lilith	Dr. Bea Brice
1968	Planet of the Apes	Zira
1968	The Swimmer	Betty Graham
1970	Beneath the Planet of the Apes	Zira
1971	Escape from the Planet of the Apes	Zira
1976	Dark August	Adrianna Putnam
1987	The Kindred	Amanda Hollins
1990	Due occhi diabolici	Mrs. Pym	segment "The Black Cat"
1993	The Black Cat	Mrs. Pym	Short release of segment in Due occhi diabolici
1997	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	Betty Harty
1998	A Price Above Rubies	Rebbitzn
1999	Abilene	Emmeline Brown
1999	Out of the Cold	Elsa Lindepu
2000	Here's to Life!	Nelly Ormond
2000	The Hiding Place	Muriel

Awards
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