The following material is derived from EXTRA! (July/August 1998), and was taken from Anarchy for Anybody. CONSERVATIVE TOP 40 If there truly were a lib.
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.
<p>Hunt's participation in the Committee for the First Amendment, which questioned the activities of the House Unamerican Activities Committee in 1947, led to her blacklisting. </p>