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Immense pressure was exerted on individuals under conditions of the Cold War, anti-communist hysteria to “name names.” The witch-hunters were implacable.
Hunt was one of last surviving victims of the Hollywood blacklist of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Never a Communist Party member, she nonetheless became identified with opposition to the vicious witch-hunting in the film industry.