Marsha Hunt – 1917

Marsha Hunt lived through the golden age of Hollywood and then the golden age of live television, and she is now 104 years old. She lived through McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklist, yet she never lost sight of her values.

Despite having grown up in New York, she aspired to be a star in Hollywood. After high school, she secured a deal with Paramount Pictures and a brief modeling career. Hunt was only 17 years old back then and had a lot on her plate. She appeared in almost 50 films during the 1930s and 1940s. Hunt’s activism and charity work, to which she spent decades of her life, have now been hampered by the frailties of age. But it’s incredible how we get to see her credits till now.