Martita Hunt

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Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham sits in a decaying, cobweb-covered dining room beside a young boy in a scene from the 1946 film Great Expectations, directed by David Lean.

Martita Hunt

British actress

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Great Expectations
…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. There he becomes friends with the raffish…
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…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. There he becomes friends with the raffish…
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