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Hunt began her acting career in repertory theatre at Liverpool before moving to London.

She first appeared there in the Stage Society's production of Ernst Toller's The Machine Wreckers at the Kingsway Theatre in May 1923.

From 1923-29 she appeared as the Principessa della Cercola in W. Somerset Maugham's Our Betters ( Globe, 1924 ) and as Mrs. Linden in Ibsen's A Doll's House ( Playhouse, 1925 ) in the West End, along with engagements at club theatres such as the Q Theatre and the Arts Theatre and a short 1926 Chekhov season at the small Barnes Theatre under Victor Komisarjevsky ( playing Charlotta Ivanovna, in The Cherry Orchard and Olga in Three Sisters ).