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Martita Edith Hunt (30 January 1900 – 13 June 1969) was an Argentine -born British theatre and film actress. She had a dominant stage presence and played a wide range of powerful characters. She is best remembered for her performance as Miss Havisham in David Lean 's Great Expectations (1946).
Martita Hunt. Actress: Great Expectations. Popular British character actress known for her rich cluster of queens, dowagers, shrews and evildoers, Martita Hunt was born on a ranch in Argentina to British parents, but moved with her family to England at age 10 for her formal education.
Martita Hunt. Actress: Great Expectations. Popular British character actress known for her rich cluster of queens, dowagers, shrews and evildoers, Martita Hunt was born on a ranch in Argentina to British parents, but moved with her family to England at age 10 for her formal education.
Martita Edith Hunt (30 January 1900 – 13 June 1969) was an Argentine-born British theatre and film actress. She had a dominant stage presence and played a wide range of powerful characters. She is best remembered for her performance as Miss Havisham in David Lean's Great Expectations.
This featured Martita Hunt (playing the role of the Madwoman for over 350 performances and winning a 1949 Tony Award for her performance), and John Carradine as The Ragpicker. [6] . The play was selected as one of the best plays of 1948-1949, with an excerpted version published in "The Burns Mantle Best Plays of 1948-1949." [7]
Martita Hunt (1900 - 1969) Despite appearing in over seventy films, Martita Hunt's cinema career is dominated by one role: that of Miss Haversham in Great Expectations. She was born in Buenos Aires to British parents, and was sent to England to boarding school at the age of ten.
The Brides of Dracula: Directed by Terence Fisher. With Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, Freda Jackson. Vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on a beautiful young schoolteacher.
…the spinster Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt), where he falls in love with her ward, Estella (Jean Simmons). Later, as a young man, Pip (now played by John Mills) discovers that an anonymous benefactor has financed a gentleman’s lifestyle for him in London.
Martita Hunt was a formidable Argentine-born actress with a rich voice. She made her name on the British stage and screen and used her horsey features and dominant plainness to create a colorful gallery of villainesses and (later) eccentric dowagers. She was perhaps most memorable as 'Miss Havisham' in the 1946 film "Great Expectations".
Martita Hunt. (1900-1969), Actress. Sitter in 2 portraits. Born of British parents in Argentina, Hunt first appeared on the stage in 1921. She joined Lilian Baylis 's Old Vic Company in 1929 on John Gielgud 's insistence and the following year played opposite his Macbeth. Throughout the 1940s she appeared in the West End and on Broadway.
