Show r STARS IN THE SPOTLIGHT BY ETHEL VINE anybody looking at marsha hunt the ex model or the defiant girl who once said no to hollywood or at marsha Mars iia the character actress might not have realized her aim but marsha never lost sight of it just as when she aha was three years old she knew where she was headed she first took to acting in an organized company skipping her backyard exploits of childhood while in new yorks horn horace e mann man n school for girls she not only played in each production but al so designed the sets after a year at the theodore irvine school of dramatics she made the decision that she needed still further training instead of seeking a movie movi career overnight she became a john powers model when she camb came to hollywood at the end of a year she was well prepared pared again she proved proved the u prepared MARSHA head ead Ere she had on her Is shoulders ou iders HUNT character roles or nothing asking for charleter charf character eter roles or nothing and free lancing for a change chance she saw the start of her new career in winter carnival she played the mother of a three year old a decided novelty for a former that was nothing however compared with what was to come these glamour girls was her next casting her as a psychopathic suicide and putting her through all the stages of her malady before a tragic death scene joe joa and ethel turp call on the president saw her progress from a pert rt twenty to a stoop shouldered bent and wrinkle faced sixty from t pea that t she i went into hoop skirts and horn rimmed glasses as greer carsons Gar sons silly prissy sister in pride an and cr prejudice in cheers tor for M miss ss bishop she again underwent the aging kocens process from sixteen this thia time to a dignified fifty by that time her reputation had spread metro goldwyn mayer without the semblance semb lanea ot of a test Offe offered her a hard boiled follies girl role in the trial of mary dugan since then she has been a glamorous night club singer in unholy partners another tragic suicide in blossoms in the dust now under long term contract to M G M and having proven herself an actress of the first water she has won her to leading roles so it to la that she becomes You youngs rigs sweetheart and wife in joe smith american and for almost tho the first time sho she is ablo able to act and appear as a martha marsha hunt J |