Kim Hunter
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Born Janet Cole, American actress Kim Hunter trained at the Actors Studio. At age 17, she debuted onscreen in The Seventh Victim (1943) before appearing in several subpar films. Her popularity was renewed with her appearance in the British fantasy A Matter of Life and Death (1946), and, in 1947, she created the role of Stella Kowalski on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, reprising the role in the 1951 film version, for which she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. But her career was dealt a terrible blow when her name appeared without cause in Red Channels, a Red-scare pamphlet during the McCarthy Era, and she was blacklisted. Several years later, she was called as the star witness in a court case instigated by another Red Channels victim, and her testimony discredited the publication and made it possible for dozens of other performers to reclaim their careers. She returned to films sporadically after this, and also did much work on stage and television; among her roles was appearing as a female ape in three Planet of the Apes films. She also wrote Loose in the Kitchen, a combination autobiography-cookbook. Hunter was married to writer Robert Emmett from 1951 until her death in 2002.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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97% | Cameraman: The Life And Work Of Jack Cardiff |
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$20.5k | 2011 |
No Score Yet | The Hiding Place |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Bailando con el Alma |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Here's to Life |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Behind the Planet of the Apes |
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— | 1998 |
57% | A Price Above Rubies |
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— | 1998 |
50% | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Bloodlines: Murder in the Family |
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— | 1993 |
56% | Two Evil Eyes |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Cross of Fire |
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— | 1989 |
50% | The Kindred |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Three Sovereigns for Sarah |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Private Sessions |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Skokie |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | Backstairs at the White House |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Dark August |
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— | 1976 |
60% | Bad Ronald |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Born Innocent |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Jennifer on My Mind |
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— | 1972 |
77% | Escape from the Planet of the Apes |
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— | 1971 |
No Score Yet | In Search of America |
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— | 1971 |
39% | Beneath The Planet Of The Apes |
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— | 1970 |
100% | The Swimmer |
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— | 1968 |
86% | Planet of the Apes |
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— | 1968 |
86% | Lilith |
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— | 1964 |
No Score Yet | Money, Women and Guns |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | Comedian |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Storm Center |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Playhouse 90 |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Anything Can Happen |
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— | 1952 |
75% | Deadline - U.S.A. |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | A Streetcar Named Desire: Digital Restovation |
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— | 1951 |
98% | A Streetcar Named Desire |
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— | 1951 |
93% | A Canterbury Tale |
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— | 1949 |
97% | Stairway to Heaven (A Matter of Life and Death) |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Betrayed |
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— | 1944 |
No Score Yet | Tender Comrade |
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— | 1943 |
94% | The Seventh Victim |
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— | 1943 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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79% |
The Education of Max Bickford
2001-2002
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No Score Yet |
Mad About You
1992-1999
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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No Score Yet |
The Rockford Files
1974-1980
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969-1976
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No Score Yet |
Mission: Impossible
1966-1973
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No Score Yet |
Columbo
1968-2003
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-1965
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No Score Yet |
Rawhide
1959-1965
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Quotes from Kim Hunter's Characters
Blanche Dubois: | Tell us a funny little story stanley, somthing to help us out |
Blanche Dubois: | Tell us a funny little story stanley, somthing to help us out. |
Stella Kowalski: | I didn't think you like my stories Blanche |
Stella Kowalski: | I didn't think you like my stories Blanche. |
Blanche Dubois: | I like them when there amusing but not indecent |
Blanche Dubois: | I like them when there amusing but not indecent. |
Stanley Kowalski: | I don't know any refine enough for your taste |
Stanley Kowalski: | I don't know any refine enough for your taste. |
Zira: | What will he find out there, doctor? |
Zaius: | His destiny. |