Streetcar star Kim Hunter dies

Kim Hunter, the actress who won a supporting Oscar in 1951 as the long-suffering Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire and appeared in three Planet Of The Apes films, has died. She was 79.

Kim Hunter, the actress who won a supporting Oscar in 1951 as the long-suffering Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire and appeared in three Planet Of The Apes films, has died. She was 79.

Hunter suffered an apparent heart attack in her Greenwich Village, New York, apartment, said her daughter, Kathryn Emmett.

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