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  Kim Hunter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She appeared in the 1951 film, for which Hunter won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry Kim Hunter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1617 Vine Street and a second star at 1715 Vine Street.
Kim Hunter died of cardiac arrest in New York City in 2002.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kim_Hunter   (217 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - 'Streetcar' actress Kim Hunter dies at 79   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hunter was cast as Dr. Zira, a chimpanzee psychiatrist in the science fiction classic.
Hunter was born Janet Cole in Detroit on Nov. 12, 1922; her mother had been a concert pianist.
Hunter was married to William Baldwin in 1944; they had a daughter, and divorced in 1946.
www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2002-09-11-hunter_x.htm   (748 words)

  
 Theater News - Theater News: Kim Hunter, Broadway and Hollywood's Stella DuBois, Dies at 79 -
Kim Hunter, who died on September 11 of a heart attack at 79, began and ended her Broadway career at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
After graduation, Hunter joined a local stock company and then became a member of "The Theatre of the Fifteen," playing ingénue roles until the group disbanded in 1942 ("Most of the actors were being drafted," she noted).
An emissary was sent to Hunter and she was told that there was interest in her but that she could not be signed until the part of Blanche had been cast, since Stella and Blanche had to look like sisters.
www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/2552   (1751 words)

  
 MMI Tribute: Kim Hunter Tribute
To detach a fine actress like Kim Hunter from the era in which she worked is to miss the point of her career, which she began with an RKO screen test in 1943.
Kim Hunter, then 21, is ideally cast in the picture and she fulfilled her promise the following year in William Castle's "When Strangers Marry." Hunter's a young bride who barely knows her much-older husband, shrouded in mystery and played by Dean Jagger.
Hunter did her best in Richard Brooks' "Deadline USA" and John Frankenheimer's "The Young Stranger," but her characters, despite her billing, were insultingly subordinate to the roles played by Humphrey Bogart and James Daly.
www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/kimhuntertribut-ms-88163327.html   (616 words)

  
 EI > Interviews > Kim Hunter
Hunter delighted the fans on the last day of the festival when she acted in the lead female role during the recreation of an episode of the "Gunsmoke" radio show.
Hunter was then asked several questions about her experiences on the "Planet of the Apes" films.
Hunter created one of the most memorable screen characters ever in "Planet of the Apes." Zira was an open minded, caring and warm ape.
www.einsiders.com /features/interviews/kimhunter.php   (1199 words)

  
 AP Worldstream: Oscar-winner Kim Hunter, Stella in `A Streetcar Named Desire,' dies at 79@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dateline: NEW YORK Kim Hunter, who brought the role of Stella to life in stage and screen productions of "A Streetcar Named Desire," died of an apparent heart attack at the age of 79.
Hunter, who won a supporting Oscar for the 1951 film version of "Streetcar, " died Wednesday in her Greenwich Village apartment, according to her daughter, Kathryn Emmett.
"Kim Hunter was a fine actress and a wonderful person," said actor Charlton Heston, who co-starred in the movie "Planet of the Apes" with Hunter.
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 "Apes" Star Hunter Dies - Sep 11, 2002 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Although never a marquee name, Hunter amassed her share of starry credits: Deadline U.S.A. opposite Humphrey Bogart; Stairway to Heaven (aka A Matter of Life and Death), the acclaimed British war drama with David Niven; and, of course, Streetcar and the Apes franchise.
As the fllist faded in the 1960s, Hunter reemerged (albeit, buried under piles of latex makeup and glued-on hair) in the original Planet of the Apes.
In that 1968 sci-fi classic, Hunter shuffled, twitched her nose and bussed Charlton Heston as the chimp psychiatrist who reigned as one of the lone voices of reason in the world-upside-down madhouse.
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 Kim Hunter Law - Immigration and Nationality Law in Minnesota
Kim Hunter and Associates provides personalized service for immigration and nationality law clients.
Kim Hunter and Associates has successfully represented a wide range of clients before U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (formerly known as the INS), the immigration courts, and federal courts.
Kim Hunter and Associates provides high-quality legal services to immigrants from around the world.
www.kimhunterlaw.com   (241 words)

  
 Playbill News: Kim Hunter, Stage Great and Original Stella, Is Dead at 79
Kim Hunter, the actress whose long and rich stage career included playing Stella in the original Broadway production and subsequent film of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, died of a heart attack at her Greenwich Village apartment Sept. 11.
Hunter appeared in a couple films after "Streetcar," including the Humphrey Bogart vehicle "Deadline U.S.A.," but her screen and television careers went dead after when her name appeared in "Red Channels," the Communist scare pamphlet.
Hunter returned the theatre's loyalty to her by seemingly refusing to quit the stage.
www.playbill.com /news/article/72029.html   (783 words)

  
 Theater News - Feature: Mad Woman - Kim Hunter returns to the stage as Mlle. Gabrielle in The Madwoman of Chaillot.
Kim Hunter returns to the stage as Mlle.
Though Hunter won an Oscar for Stella, her film career after Streetcar was dampened by the hateful fllisting of the McCarthy era; but she made a terrific, if unlikely, comeback as the simian Dr. Zira in the original Planet of the Apes (the one with Charlton Heston) and several of its sequels.
I spoke with Hunter a few weeks ago as she faced her return to the stage with mixed emotions.
www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/1690   (1357 words)

  
 Kim Hunter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Born Janet Cole, American actress Kim Hunter was born in 1922.
She is the author of Loose in the Kitchen, a combination autobiography and cookbook and is married to writer Robert Emmett, but Kim Hunter will always be the adorable loving sympathetic ape, Dr. Zira to us.
On September 11, 2002, Kim Hunter dies of a heart attack in her home in Greenwich Village.
www.apesrule.com /hunter.com.htm   (302 words)

  
 For Kim Hunter, 'Streetcar' is a special trip
As a Pittsburgh theater-goer, you should have a third: In 1992, Hunter, now 77, was at the Public Theater, playing the patrician mother in A.R. Gurney's "The Cocktail Party" -- very WASP, but with a sly sweetness that kept peeking out from the crisp matron of the play.
On that panel, Hunter will be joined by Andre Previn, composer of the opera; its director, David Kneiss, a CMU directing grad who is executive stage director for the Metropolitan Opera; and Milan Stitt, playwright and head of the CMU play writing program.
If she had the time, she could visit the original 1923-built New Orleans streetcar (destination, "Desire") that once went by Tennessee Williams' apartment and is now enshrined at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in Washington, Pa. But maybe impresario Frisch has moved it up to the Chosky for the day.
www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20010111kim4.asp   (628 words)

  
 Kim Hunter
Hunter was a actress famous for her Oscar-winning role as Stella in the film and stage versions of Tennessee Williams's
Kim Hunter - Kim Hunter Age: 79 actress famous for her Oscar-winning role as Stella in the film and stage...
Kim Hunter, who won Oscar for role of Stella in `A Streetcar Named Desire,' dies at 79
www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0909596.html   (263 words)

  
 Salon.com Sex | Stella!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kim Hunter played a key role in molding "A Streetcar Named Desire" into a more heterosexual drama than its author intended.
The actress Kim Hunter died last week, at the age of 79.
It's not the reason why Kim Hunter got the role of Stella, or even why she was so good in it.
www.salon.com /sex/turn_on/2002/09/19/streetcar   (1089 words)

  
 Kim Hunter | Biography (born 1922)
Born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1922, Kim Hunter (real name: Janet Cole) has been working in acting for 65 years, having made her professional debut in 1939.
Hunter returned to the New York stage in 1947, playing Stella Kowalski opposite Marlon Brando's Stanley and Jessica Tandy's Blanch DuBois in Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning A Streetcar Named Desire.
In 1951, Hunter reprised the role in Elia Kazan's faithful screen adaptation, starring Brando and Vivien Leigh, her performance winning her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
www.leninimports.com /kim_hunter.html   (134 words)

  
 Dartmouth News - Dartmouth to screen uncensored "Streetcar Named Desire" with star Kim Hunter - 05/05/98
Actress Kim Hunter, who won an Oscar for her role as Stella Kowalski, will speak briefly about the censorship issues and take questions following the film.
Hunter made her Broadway debut as Stella in December 1947, for which she won both Donaldson and Critics' Awards.
If that had happened, Hunter said, "No good Catholic could go and see the film." The censored version of the film received a "B" rating (meaning "objectionable in part for all").
www.dartmouth.edu /~news/releases/1998/may98/streetcar.html   (454 words)

  
 Zap2it.com - Movie news - Actress Kim Hunter Dies at 79   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A respected television and theatre actress who had a difficult time doing movies because she wasn't a typical beauty and because she was fllisted during the McCarthy era, Hunter got her big break in Kazan's sultry picture based on Tennessee Willliams' play.
Hunter also starred in three "Planet of the Apes" movies, "Deadline U.S.A.," as newspaper editor Humphrey Bogart's estranged wife; "Anything Can Happen,'' as Russian immigrant Jose Ferrer's wife; "Storm Center," co-starring Bette Davis; "The Young Stranger"; "Bermuda Affair;" and "Lilith"' starring Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg and Peter Fonda.
Hunter has a daughter with first husband William Baldwin whom she married in 1944 and divorced two years later; and a son with current husband, producer/actor Robert Emett.
www.zap2it.com /movies/news/story/0,1259,---13692,00.html   (221 words)

  
 Kim Hunter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kim Hunter has also amassed an impressive list of stage and television credits in a career that has spanned over 50 years.
Although born in Detroit, MI, Hunter was raised in the Miami, FL area.
While still a teenager, she made her stage debut in a local production, was spotted by talent scouts and put under contract by film producer David O Selznick....
www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/celeb/196578   (377 words)

  
 Kim Hunter @ Filmbug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kim Hunter was an American film and stage actress.
Born Janet Cole in Detroit, Michigan, she performed with Marlon Brando in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), playing the role of Stella Kowalski.
Kim Hunter died of a heart attack in New York City in 2002.
www.filmbug.com /db/23056   (277 words)

  
 Kim Hunter
Kim Hunter - Kim Hunter Janet Cole actress Born: November 12, 1922 Birthplace: Detroit, Mi.
Stairway to Heaven (1946) - Directors: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Cast: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Raymond Massey and...
Obituary: Kim Hunter; Oscar-winner who found new fame with `Planet of the Apes'.(Obituaries)
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0905710.html   (224 words)

  
 Kim Hunter News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
… The animals are running out of time." — Sept. 2, to Blanco adviser Kim Hunter Reed, about loss of power at the Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans.
Vivien Leigh (left), Kim Hunter and Elia Kazan on the set of "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951.
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 The Young Stranger - John Frankenheimer, James MacArthur, Kim Hunter, James Daly, James Gregory - 1957
Hal Ditmar is a clean-cut kid, the son of a wealthy movie producer.
But MacArthur keeps carrying a chip on his shoulder, which even his sympathetic mom (Kim Hunter) can't knock off.
The casting is competent with James Daly and Kim Hunter (particularly good) playing the parents of the title character performed by James MacArthur (his first theatrical film) who played the same role in the television version which was his first appearance on the small screen.
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 Kim Hunter (12 Nov 1922 - 11 Sep 2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kim Hunter (12 Nov 1922 - 11 Sep 2002)
Dedicated to the work of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and all the other people, both actors and technicians who helped them make those wonderful films.
Thanks Miss Hunter, thanks for your work; no-one who has seen A Matter of Life and Death will forget you, and as more new people are seeing it every day, that is immortality.
www.powell-pressburger.org /Obits/Kim   (333 words)

  
 Kim Hunter | movies : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kim Hunter, the Oscar-winning actress at whom Marlon Brando bellowed ''Stella!'' in ''A Streetcar Named Desire,'' and whose mate was the similarly simian Roddy McDowall in three ''Planet of the Apes'' movies, died Wednesday in New York City at age 79.
Hunter created the role of Stella Kowalski opposite Brando's Stanley in the Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' ''Streetcar'' in 1947 and reprised the role opposite him in the 1951 film version.
Though she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for that role, her film career failed to take off because she was fllisted for four years.
www.ew.com /ew/report/0,6115,350289~1~0~streetcarapesactresskim,00.html   (403 words)

  
 Kim Hunter - A master of the dramatic expressive visual art. Superstar - Star - Icon or just plain actor to some, ...
Kim Hunter - A master of the dramatic expressive visual art.
For good or bad, moving stories in film and cinmea are becoming the some of the most visible achievements - the Silver Screen, DVD, VHS, Albums, they touch us.
Borne on Slow Knives by Kim D. Hunter
www.omega23.com /New_York_to_Malibu/Kim_Hunter.html   (414 words)

  
 Knight’s Dawn (The Red Pavillions: Book 1) by Kim Hunter
Forever trying to prove himself, Soldier then begins a quest to find the find a cure for the Princess's madness, and to find the truth about his past.
'Knight's Dawn' is the first in Hunter's 'The Red Pavilions' series.
An introduction to the city of Zamerkand and to Soldier, told from his point of view.
www.computercrowsnest.com /sfnews2/02_march/review0302_4.shtml   (501 words)

  
 Kim Hunter (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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To this end, Ashida Kim has issued the following response:
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 Sci-Fi Storm | Planet of the Apes actress Kim Hunter dies
Planet of the Apes actress Kim Hunter dies
Actress Kim Hunter, best known for her roles as Dr. Zira in three of the Planet of the Apes movies and Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (for which she won a Best Supporting Oscar), died on Wednesday at the age of 79.
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