Editing Kim Hunter (section)

==Career==
Hunter's first film role was in the 1943 [[Horror film|horror]] ''[[The Seventh Victim]]'', and her first starring role was playing opposite  [[David Niven]] in the 1946 British fantasy film ''[[A Matter of Life and Death (film)|A Matter of Life and Death]]''. In 1947, she was Stella Kowalski on stage in the original [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production of ''A Streetcar Named Desire.'' Recreating that role in the [[A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)|1951 film version]], Hunter won both the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Academy]] and [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture|Golden Globe]] awards for Best Supporting Actress.<ref>{{cite web| title=Winners & Nominees: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture 1952| url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/best-performance-actress-supporting-role-any-motion-picture/all-years#year-1952| website=[[Golden Globe Award]]s| access-date=December 20, 2018| archive-date=March 8, 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308013851/https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/best-performance-actress-supporting-role-any-motion-picture/all-years#year-1952| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1952| title=Oscar Ceremony 1952 (Actress In A Supporting Role)| website=[[Academy Awards]]| date=October 5, 2014| access-date=December 20, 2018}}</ref> In the interim, however, in 1948, she had already joined with ''Streetcar'' co-stars [[Marlon Brando]], [[Karl Malden]], and 47 others, to become one of the first members accepted by the newly created [[Actors Studio]].<ref>{{cite news| first=Dick| last=Kleiner| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1798&dat=19561221&id=5AUdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zYoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6848,5227672| title=The Actors Studio: Making Stars Out of the Unknown| newspaper=[[Sarasota Journal]]| date=December 21, 1956| page=26| quote=That first year, they interviewed around 700 actors and picked 50. In that first group were people like Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Tom Ewell, John Forsythe, Julie Harris, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, E.G. Marshall, Margaret Phillips, Maureen Stapleton, Kim Stanley, Jo Van Fleet, Eli Wallach, Ray Walston and David Wayne.}}</ref>

In 1952, Hunter became [[Humphrey Bogart]]'s leading lady in ''[[Deadline - U.S.A.|Deadline USA]].''<ref>{{cite book |last=McCarty |first=Clifford |title=Bogey: The Films of Humphrey Bogart |year=1965 |location=New York |publisher=Citadel Press |page=165 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i24c-Zjt7lUC&q=hunter |isbn=978-0-8065-0001-0 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Hunter was [[Hollywood blacklist|blacklist]]ed from film and television in the 1950s, amid suspicions of [[communism]] in Hollywood, during the era of the [[House Un-American Activities Committee|House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)]].<ref>{{cite news |title=THEATER; Blacklist: Memories of a Word That Marks an Era |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/31/arts/theater-blacklist-memories-of-a-word-that-marks-an-era.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 31, 1994 |access-date=September 21, 2015}}</ref>

In 1956, with the HUAC's influence subsiding, she co-starred in [[Rod Serling]]'s [[Peabody Award]]-winning teleplay on ''[[Playhouse 90]]'', "[[Requiem for a Heavyweight]]". The telecast won multiple [[Emmy Award]]s, including Best Single Program of the Year. She appeared opposite [[Mickey Rooney]] in the 1957 live CBS-TV broadcast of ''[[The Comedian (1957 TV drama)|The Comedian]],'' another drama written by Rod Serling and directed by [[John Frankenheimer]]. In 1959, she appeared in ''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]'' in "Incident of the Misplaced Indians" as Amelia Spaulding. On February 4, 1968, she appeared as Ada Halle in the NBC TV Western series ''[[Bonanza]]'' in the episode "The Price of Salt".<ref name=Collura/>

Starting in 1968, Hunter took on the role of Zira, the sympathetic [[Common chimpanzee|chimpanzee]] scientist in the [[science fiction film]]  ''[[Planet of the Apes (1968 film)|Planet of the Apes]]'', as well as two of its sequels. She also appeared in several radio and TV soap operas, most notably as Hollywood actress [[Nola Madison]] in ABC's ''[[The Edge of Night]],'' for which she received a [[Daytime Emmy Award]] nomination as [[Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series|Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series]] in 1980.<ref name="emmy"/> In 1979, she appeared as First Lady [[Ellen Axson Wilson]] in the serial drama ''[[Backstairs at the White House]].''<ref name=guardian>{{cite news |last=Baxter |first=Brian |date=September 12, 2002 |title=Obituary: Kim Hunter |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/sep/13/guardianobituaries.arts |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=[[London]] |access-date=February 5, 2017}}</ref>

Hunter starred in the controversial [[television movie|TV movie]] ''[[Born Innocent (film)|Born Innocent]]'' (1974) playing the mother of [[Linda Blair]]'s character. She also starred in several episodes of the ''[[CBS Radio Mystery Theater]]'' during the mid-1970s. In 1971, she appeared in an episode of ''[[Cannon (TV series)|Cannon]].'' In the same year, she starred in a ''[[List of Columbo episodes#Season 1|Columbo]]'' episode "Suitable for Framing". In 1974, she appeared on Raymond Burr's ''[[Ironside (1967 TV series)|Ironside]]''. In 1977, she appeared on the NBC [[Western (genre)|Western]] series ''[[The Oregon Trail (TV series)|The Oregon Trail]]'' starring [[Rod Taylor]], in the episode "The Waterhole", which also featured [[Lonny Chapman]].<ref name=Collura/>

Hunter's last film role in a major motion picture was in [[Clint Eastwood]]'s 1997 film, [[Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (film)|''Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'']]. In it, Hunter portrayed Betty Harty, legal secretary for real-life [[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]] lawyer [[Sonny Seiler]].<ref name=Collura/><ref name=guardian/>