Eleanor Hunt on AllMovie

Auburn-haired Ziegfeld girl Eleanor Hunt blazed onto the screen in 1930, as Eddie Cantor's leading lady in the phenomenally successful Whoopee. She signed with Fox but was then wasted in a couple of so-so roles in so-so films. By 1934, she was playing John Wayne's leading lady in the Western Blue Steel, but the studio was Monogram and Wayne merely an also-ran cowboy at the time. She made four minor action adventures with the fading Conrad Nagel, produced by Condor Pictures, but it was too little, too late and she retired. Hunt was the wife of B-movie perennial Rex Lease.