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Lynn Fontanne (/ f ɒ n ˈ t æ n /; [1] 6 December 1887 – 30 July 1983) [n 1] was an English actress. After early success in supporting roles in the West End , she met the American actor Alfred Lunt , whom she married in 1922 and with whom she co-starred in Broadway and West End productions over the next four decades.
Alfred David Lunt (August 12, 1892 – August 3, 1977) was an American actor and director, best known for his long stage partnership with his wife, Lynn Fontanne, from the 1920s to 1960, co-starring in Broadway and West End productions. After their marriage, they nearly always appeared together.
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (1950) In 1933 Thomas Bostock became proprietor of the theatre and had it renovated. [47] The following year Alfred Lunt and his wife Lynn Fontanne had a success with Robert E. Sherwood's Reunion in Vienna, in which they had appeared on Broadway in 1931–32. [47]
Ten Chimneys was the summer home and gentleman's farm of Broadway actors Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt, and a social center for American theater.The property is located in Genesee Depot in the Town of Genesee in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States.
Lunt, Coward and Fontanne in Design for Living. Design for Living is a comedy play written by Noël Coward in 1932. It concerns a trio of artistic characters, Gilda, Otto and Leo, and their complicated three-way relationship.
The Guardsman is a 1931 American pre-Code film based on the play Testőr by Ferenc Molnár.It stars Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young and ZaSu Pitts.It opens with a stage re-enactment of the final scene of Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen, with Fontanne as Elizabeth and Lunt as the Earl of Essex, but otherwise has nothing to do with that play.
On Broadway, Design for Living was a popular and critical hit starring Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt and Coward, and its risqué ménage-à-trois theme made it controversial. [4] [5] Design for Living was one of more than a dozen of Coward's plays made into feature films. [5]
Stefan (Alfred Lunt) and Linda (Lynn Fontanne), 1934. Point Valaine is a play by Noël Coward. It was written as a vehicle for Alfred Lunt and his wife Lynn Fontanne, who starred together in the original Broadway production in 1934. The play was not seen in Britain until 1944 and was not staged in London until 1947.