11 Facts About Kim Hunter

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Kim Hunter achieved prominence for portraying Stella Kowalski in the original production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which she reprised for the 1951 film adaptation, and won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Kim Hunter portrayed the chimpanzee Zira in Planet of the Apes, and its sequels Beneath the Planet of the Apes and Escape from the Planet of the Apes.

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In 1952, Kim Hunter became Humphrey Bogart's leading lady in Deadline USA.

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Kim Hunter was blacklisted from film and television in the 1950s, amid suspicions of communism in Hollywood, during the era of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

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Kim Hunter appeared opposite Mickey Rooney in the 1957 live CBS-TV broadcast of The Comedian, another drama written by Rod Serling and directed by John Frankenheimer.

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Kim Hunter 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 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1980.

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Kim Hunter starred in the controversial TV movie Born Innocent playing the mother of Linda Blair's character.

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8.

Kim Hunter starred in several episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater during the mid-1970s.

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Kim Hunter was married twice, first to William Baldwin, a Marine Corps pilot, in 1944.

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Kim Hunter died in New York City on September 11,2002, of a heart attack at the age of 79.

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Kim Hunter received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 1615 Vine Street and a second for television at 1715 Vine Street.