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After realizing that C'est Si Bon reminded me a little of Cindy Brady in her "orange" photo, I couldn't resist exploring the Brady Bunch idea a bit further. Here we have poor, studious Jan wondering why she can't be as popular as her older sister. :)
Doll: British Invasion Poppy Parker -- OOAK (rerooted and partial repaint)
Dress: Squishtish -- again providing that retro '70s feel for this photo!
Glasses: Azone
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) speaks at The Heritage Foundation's Conservative Bloggers' Briefing on Oct. 2, 2007.
Marsh Wren
Cistothorus palustris
Taken at Ellis Creek in Sonoma County, CA, USA. This is my first post of a marsh wren. It definitely wasn't the easiest bird, either. Though I kept hearing their raspy calls and seeing them flit within the reeds, they weren't inclined to expose themselves for a good shot. So, I'm glad I caught this little beauty on a cattail.
Thank you for your views, faves and comments. Deeply appreciated.
Mel Odom created a doll to honor his friend, actor Marsha Hunt. Produced by Integrity Toys, the doll is an exemplary model of very successful stylized character sculpting. Her jewelry is by Joy Jarred.
Created for the (inspired by Marsha Balian) challenge.
Credit : Pixabay, my own textures .. oh and a bit of help from Modigiliani who provide a base for the girl.
Thanks for looking.
Artwork ©jackiecrossley
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In the style of Marsha Balian.
Congrats to Inspire's Best of Group Award for Children’s Photography 5/28/2015
Author – Marsha Double-Lonchena
SELECTED BY EDITORIAL STAFF – Denitza Kirilova
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Usaully we saw actresses wearing sexually provocative dress like this each year. Of course they draw attention from the media right off, but they face severe criticism for inappropriateness from the public.
I usually like black and white images more than colored images, tbh. Maybe it's just because I've read too much manga?
Marshlands in southern Whitby. It can be hit or miss whether the mystical fog arises in the morning and the trumpet swans fill the watershed. On this date, sadly it was a miss :(
Technical info; 3 shot focus stack blended in Photoshop.
Title is an homage to the many years of my misspent youth watching TV sitcoms, whose catch phrase has been popularized in a recent Snickers' commercial :)
She's a skittish one; she jumped a couple of channels just to get more than the 1,000 feet away from us that she already was. Then she vanished. She might have swam the main channel, but if so we didn't see it.
LOL that's what I think of when I see this. The forgotten sister in the background, looking on as her older beautiful sister gets all the attention.
Poor flower.
Made Explore #329
Liz (woollyrockers) is visiting today & bought her Star Dancer, Marsha, for me to see. she's the first RBL i've seen in person & i like her more than i expected to. darn!
I did a quick fanart portrait of Marsha from Jillian Tamaki's SuperMutant Magic Academy. Marsha is my favorite and her hair looked like it'd be relaxing to draw. <3
I went on a photography retreat with some friends over the weekend in PA. I got a chance to photograph models and learned so much.
Model: Marsha Denlinger
Vision: AB Hsieh
Lucky: ME
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, no. W105. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
American retired actress, model, and activist Marsha Hunt was born on 17 October 1917. She had a career spanning 73 years, and appeared in many popular films including Pride and Prejudice (1940), Blossoms in the Dust (1942), Cry 'Havoc' (1943), The Human Comedy (1943), and Raw Deal (1948). She was blacklisted by Hollywood film studio executives in the 1950s during McCarthyism. In her later years, she has aided homeless shelters, supported same-sex marriage, raised awareness of climate change, and promoted peace in Third World countries.
Marcia Virginia Hunt was born in 1917, in Chicago. She was the younger of two daughters of Earl Hunt, a lawyer and later a Social Security Administrator, and Minabel Hunt, a vocal teacher, and organist. Marcia later changed the spelling of her first name to Marsha. Hunt and her family were active in the Methodist church. Hunt's family moved to New York City when she was young, and she began performing in school plays and church functions. She also appeared as a singer on the radio, a gift obviously inherited from her mother. She graduated from the Horace Mann High School for Girls in 1934 at age 16. Hunt's parents wanted her to pursue a college degree, but Hunt found work modeling for the John Powers Agency and began taking stage acting classes at the Theodora Irvine Studio. She was one of the highest-earning models by 1935. In May 1935, she planned on studying stage acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in the United Kingdom. Although initially reluctant to pursue a film career, in June 1935, at age 17, Hunt signed a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures. Paramount discovered her when she was visiting her uncle in Los Angeles and the comedian Zeppo Marx saw a picture of her in the newspaper. She was then offered a screen test for The Virginia Judge. She got the role opposite Robert Cummings. Displaying an innate, fresh-faced sensitivity, she moved directly into her second film, playing the title role in the drama Gentle Julia (John G. Blystone, 1936) with Jane Withers, and Tom Brown as her romantic interest. She attended Paramount Pictures' acting school along with classmates Frances Farmer, Olympe Bradna, Robert Cummings, Eleanore Whitney, and Rosalind Keith. At Paramount, Hunt mainly played ingenue parts. Between 1935 and 1938, she made 12 pictures at Paramount, including starring roles in the comedy Easy to Take (Glenn Tryon, 1936), The Accusing Finger (James P. Hogan, 1936), the comedy Murder Goes to College (Charles Reisner, 1937). She made two films on 'loan-out' to RKO and 20th Century Fox. In 1937, she starred opposite John Wayne, a couple of years prior to his breakthrough in Hollywood, in the Western film Born to the West (Charles Barton, 1937). The studio terminated Hunt's contract in 1938, and she spent a few years starring in B-films produced by poverty row studios such as Republic Pictures and Monogram Pictures. She also headed to New York City for work in summer stock theatre shortly before winning a supporting role in MGM's These Glamour Girls (S. Sylvan Simon, 1939) opposite Lana Turner and Lew Ayres. The role of Betty was said to have been written especially with Hunt in mind. Other roles in major studio productions soon followed, including supporting roles as Mary Bennet in MGM's version of Pride and Prejudice (Robert Z. Leonard, 1940) with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier, and as Martha Scott's surrogate child Hope Thompson in Cheers for Miss Bishop (Tay Garnett, 1941).
In 1941, Marsha Hunt signed a contract with MGM, where she remained for the next six years. While filming Blossoms in the Dust (1942), film director Mervyn LeRoy lauded Hunt for her heartfelt and genuine acting ability. During this period she had starring roles in 21 films, including The Penalty (Harold S. Bucquet, 1941) opposite Lionel Barrymore, Panama Hattie (Norman Z. McLeod, 1942) opposite Ann Sothern and Red Skelton, the propaganda film Pilot No. 5 (George Sidney, 1943) in which she was cast as the love interest of Franchot Tone, and The Valley of Decision (Tay Garnett, 1945) with Gregory Peck. During this time she also sang on extended USO tours and stayed busy on the radio. In 1944 she polled seventh in a list by exhibitors of 'Stars of Tomorrow'. She previously did a screen test to play Melanie Hamilton in Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939) and almost got the part before Olivia de Havilland took it over. In 1944, she appeared in None Shall Escape (Andre De Toth, 1944), a film that is now regarded as the first about the Holocaust. She played Marja Pacierkowski, the Polish fiancé of a German Nazi officer named Wilhelm Grimm. She had a catchy, unsympathetic role as a scheming secretary in Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (Stuart Heisler, 1947), starring Susan Hayward. In Raw Deal (Anthony Mann, 1948), starring Dennis O'Keefe, she got the "raw deal" being overshadowed as a "good girl" by the "bad girl" posturings of Claire Trevor. In 1945, Hunt was invited to join the board of the Screen Actors Guild. Disturbed by the actions of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Hunt and her husband, screenwriter Robert Presnell Jr., became members of the Committee for the First Amendment in 1947. In October that same year, Hunt took part in Hollywood Fights Back, a star-studded radio program co-written by her husband protesting the activities of HUAC. The next day, Hunt flew with a group of about 30 actors, directors, writers, and filmmakers (including John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Danny Kaye) to Washington to protest the actions of HUAC.
When she returned to Hollywood just three days later, things had changed. She was asked to denounce her activities if she wanted to find more work; she refused. Film work became scarce for Hunt and Presnell. She made her Broadway debut in Joy to the World (1948). Although she was never subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee, her name appeared in the red-baiting pamphlet Red Channels because of her membership in the Committee for the First Amendment and on liberal petitions she signed. She was blacklisted at age 32.
After her 1950 blacklisting, Marsha Hunt found most work in television, not film. She appeared in only a handful of films during the next eight years. When she was unable to work in any of the blacklist media, she played in stock theatre, around the country. In 1957, her career began to pick up. She appeared in six films during the next three years before announcing her semi-retirement in 1960. Following her semi-retirement in 1960, Hunt appeared in small roles in five films and numerous television shows, including an episode of the ABC medical drama Breaking Point. In 1962, she appeared in an episode of Gunsmoke, and in 1967, she had a leading role in an episode of My Three Sons. In 1971, she appeared in the film Johnny Got His Gun, written and directed by fellow blacklist member Dalton Trumbo. She played the mother of the title character, portrayed by Timothy Bottoms. The film won the Grand Prix at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. In 1988, she appeared in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In 1993, her book 'The Way We Wore: Styles of the 1930s and '40s and Our World Since Then' was published. Later, Hunt played in the film Chloe's Prayer (Maura Mackey, 2006), and in a short Film Noir, The Grand Inquisitor (2008). At age 91, she was seen in Meurtres à l'Empire State Building (William Karel, 2008), a tribute and doc-crime-drama celebrating Film Noir and the icons of the Hollywood golden age. In 2013, Hunt debuted a clip of a song she wrote 40 years earlier titled 'Here's to All Who Love' about love and same-sex marriage. Sung by Glee star Bill A. Jones the clip immediately went viral. It was featured in Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity (2015), a documentary about her life. When she was 99 in April 2017, Hunt made a public appearance at the 2017 Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival to honor the achievements of actor and activist Ed Asner.
In 1955, after a trip opened her eyes to the issue of hunger in the Third World, Marsha Hunt gave speeches throughout the United States, encouraging Americans to join the fight against starvation in the Third World by joining the United Nations Association. Hunt was a founder of the "San Fernando Valley Mayor's Fund for the Homeless" and helped to open one of the first homeless shelters in the San Fernando Valley. In 1960, she produced an hour-long telecast about the refugee problems that featured stars such as Paul Newman, Jean Simmons, and Bing Crosby. She raised funds for the creation of "Rose Cottage", a daycare shelter for homeless children, and served for many years on the Advisory Board of Directors for the San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center, a large non-profit, where she advocates for adults and children affected by homelessness and mental illness. Hunt was named honorary mayor of Sherman Oaks, California, in 1983. She still identifies as a political liberal and is very concerned with such issues as global pollution, worldwide poverty, peace in Third World nations, and population growth. In 1998 she was the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award for her many selfless efforts. Marsha Hunt was married twice. She married Jerry "Jay" Hopper, assistant head of the editing department at Paramount and later a director, on in 1938. The marriage ended in divorce in 1945. Hunt married her second husband, screenwriter, and radio director Robert Presnell Jr., in 1946. Their child, a premature daughter, was born in 1947 but died the next day. She and her second husband later became foster parents. They remained together until his death in 1986. Marsha Hunt resided in Sherman Oaks, California, since 1946. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "Stardom somehow eluded this vastly gifted actress. Had it not perhaps been for her low-level profile compounded by her McCarthy-era blacklisting in the early 1950s, there is no telling what higher tier Marsha Hunt might have attained. Perhaps her work was not flashy enough, or too subdued, or perhaps her intelligence too often disguised a genuine sex appeal to stand out among the other lovelies. Two studios, Paramount in the late 1930s and MGM in the early 1940s, failed to complete her star. Nevertheless, her talent and versatility cannot be denied. This glamorous, slimly handsome leading lady offered herself to well over 50 pictures during the 1930s and 1940s alone."
Marsha Hunt died on 22 September 2022, at the age of 104.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
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