[2] Hunter performed on Broadway from 1898 to 1914, with parts in the shows The Runaway Girl (1898), Chris and the Wonderful Lamp (1900), Foxy Quiller (In Corsica) (1900), The Strollers (1901), The Liberty Belles (1901), Florodora (1902),[3] Tom, Dick and Harry (1905), Girlies (1910),[4] The Girl in the Train (1910), Over the River (1912), and Papa's Darling (1914).

(1915),[8] Almost a Papa (1915), The Law of Life (1916),[9] The Hoax House (1916), Patterson of the News (1916),[10] The Haunted Bell (1916), Through Flames to Love (1916), Won with a Make-Up (1916), Half a Rogue (1916),[11][12] Jim Slocum No.

46393 (1916), The Fool (1916), The Head of the Family (1916), The Man Across the Street (1916), The Circular Room (1916), A Lucky Gold Piece (1916), The Captain of the Typhoon (1916), The Laugh of Scorn (1916), The Lie Sublime (1916), In the Heart of New York (1916), The Common Law (1916), A Prince in a Pawnshop (1916), Are You an Elk?

(1916), A Wife's Folly (1917), Jimmie Dale Alias the Grey Seal (1917),[6][13] Two Little Imps (1917),[14] The Co-respondent (1917), The Naulahka (1918),[15] De Luxe Annie (1918),[16] and The Unchastened Woman (1918).

[18] In 1916 she was selected as "Miss Personal Beauty" by delegates from 35 motion picture companies, to star in a special film marking the Shakespeare tercentenary.