Blacklisted Actress Marsha Hunt, Humanitarian and Longtime Activist

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Thu, 12/31/2015 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Blacklisted Actress Marsha Hunt, Humanitarian and Longtime Activist

The series From the Vault visits with Marsha Hunt " actress, humanitarian and longtime-activist for a variety of social causes including education, homelessness, and world hunger. In 2015, the film documentary Marsha Hunt s Sweet Adversity premiered on the festival circuit, commanding plenty of attention and winning awards to boot; produced and directed by Roger C. Memos, this film about Ms. Hunt s life prominently features a 1962 sound recording from Pacifica Radio Archives in which Hunt, the Reverend John Simmons, and the Reverend Brooks Walker discuss the dangers presented by the rise of reactionary political groups in the United States. Along with an excerpt from that 1962 recording, we ll listen in on an interview Hunt gave to KPFK programmer Dorothy Nasatir in the 1990 s, where Hunt discusses her Hollywood blacklisting and the pervasive Red Scare that spread throughout the movie industry in the late 1940 s. Rounding out our sound experience, we share a wide-ranging conversation between Hunt, documentary producer Memos, and Pacifica Radio Archives Director Brian DeShazor that was recorded in August 2015 at Hunt s home in Los Angeles. 
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