Kim hunter

Kim Hunter

Vintage autograph card. American actress Kim Hunter(1922-2002) had her breakthrough in the cinema with the classic British film A Matter of Life and Death (1946). In 1952 she won an Oscar for her part as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). In the McCarthy she was blacklisted as being a Communist sympathizer, but in the 1960s she was cleared from the unjustly accusations. Kim Hunter was born as Janet Cole in Detroit, Michigan, USA, in 1922. Her father, Donald Cole, was a…

1951...BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kim Hunter, A Streetcar Named Desire

Kim Hunter

Kim Hunter was born Janet Cole in Detroit, Michigan, on November 12, 1922, the daughter of Grace Lind, who was trained as a concert pianist, and Donald Cole, a refrigeration engineer. She attended Miami Beach High School. Her first film role was in the 1943 film noir, The Seventh Victim. In 1947, she performed in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire, playing the role of Stella Kowalski. Recreating that role in the 1951 film version, Hunter won both the Academy and…

Kim Hunter, at Playhouse 90 in "Judgement At Neuremberg" directed by George Roy Hill.

Dutch postcard. American actress Kim Hunter(1922-2002) had her breakthrough in the cinema with the classic British film A Matter of Life and Death (1946). In 1952 she won an Oscar for her part as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). In the McCarthy era, she was blacklisted as being a Communist sympathizer, but in the 1960s she was cleared of the unjust accusations. Kim Hunter was born as Janet Cole in Detroit, Michigan, USA, in 1922. Her father, Donald Cole, was a consulting engineer…

Kim Hunter was born Janet Cole to Donald Cole and Grace (nee Lind) in Chicago, Illinois in 1922, and lived there until she moved to Miami Beach with her family at the age of ten. She began acting as early as 1939 playing the role of Penny in Penny Wise. The Summer after Graduation from High School, she was the ingenue with a stock company in Flat Rock, N.C. Subsequently she appeared in stock in Miami Beach and Coral Gables, Florida and Hendersonville, N.C. and others. David O. Selznick put…

Barbara Stanwyck, 1941 my fave! The lady of burlesque, Christmas in Connecticut... She's awesome!

In MEMORY of KIM HUNTER on her BIRTHDAY - Born Janet Cole, American film, theatre, and television actress. She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire. Decades later, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her work on the soap opera The Edge of Night. Nov 12, 1922 - Sep 11, 2002 (heart attack)

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Learning how to knit with Kim Hunter on the set of A Streetcar Named Desire. So sweet

"I would not have done what he did. What he did was wrong. But I also know the man, and he was terrified."

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