Courtesy photo Nashua native Roger Memos, a film director and writer whose recent documentary about the life of actress Marsha Hunt will air on TCM on Friday, was photographed with Hunt several years ago at Sony Studios, formerly MGM Studios, in Culver City, California (Courtesy photo)

LOS ANGELES – The all-day marathon film tribute to actress and activist Marsha Hunt, scheduled to air Friday on the Turner Classic Movies (TMC) channel, will showcase Nashua native Roger C. Memos’s film documentary about the life and times of the now 103-year-old Hollywood star.

Titled “Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity,” the 98-minute documentary, directed by Memos and co-written and produced by Memos, Richard Adkins and Joan Cohen, will air at 8 p.m. Eastern, the fifth of five Hunt movies to be shown throughout the day.

Memos, who graduated from Bishop Guertin High School in 1975, worked briefly as a teacher before moving to Los Angeles in hopes of launching a career in the film business.

The Hunt documentary marked Memos’s debut as the lead director, after having worked on numerous projects under, or alongside, other directors, producers and writers.

The documentary examines the actress’s entertainment career, but perhaps most interestingly, traces her off-screen crusade against the tidal wave of anti-communism sentiments that swept the nation, but infected Hollywood and the movie industry in particular.

A feature story on Memos and more about Hunt and her activism in the so-called “McCarthy blacklist” era, will appear in The Sunday Telegraph.

Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256 or dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.