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Kim Hunter Obituary
Kim Hunter, the versatile stage and film actress who won 1951's Academy Award for best supporting actress as Stella Kowalski, Blanche DuBois' long-suffering sister in "A Streetcar Named Desire," died Wednesday in New York. She was 79.
Her death, in Greenwich Village, was caused by an apparent heart attack, according to her daughter, Kathryn Emmett.
Hunter created the stage role of Stella in Tennessee Williams' towering Broadway play and later rode the character to fame in Elia Kazan's Oscar-nominated film, each time playing opposite an electrifying young actor named Marlon Brando, whose shouted mating call "Stella!" has become an enduring part of cinematic history.
"I had read `A Streetcar Named Desire' before I read for the part of Stella," Hunter would recall in a 1999 interview. "I knew it was a good play, but I don't think I knew how special it was, what a milestone it would be. I don't think my mind worked that way."
- Los Angeles Times
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