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Fontanne was born Lillie Louise Fontanne in Woodford, Essex (now London), on 6 December 1887. [ n 1 ] She was the youngest of the three daughters of Jules Pierre Antoine Fontanne (1855–1942) and his wife Frances Ellen, née Thornley (1858–1921).
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.
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.
Subber won a Tony Award as producer of the musical Kiss Me, Kate, which ran on Broadway from 1948 to 1951. Subber has often been described as conceiving of the show while working as a stagehand on a production of The Taming of the Shrew starring the real-life husband and wife Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne and noticing that the couple "quarreled almost as much off stage as they did in the play".
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne first accomplished the feat in 1965. [10] Bartlett and Daniels won for their portrayals of Dr. Mark and Mrs. Ellen Craig on the TV series St. Elsewhere . They later acted together again when she played a college dean who employed her husband's character, in a season of Daniels's ABC series Boy Meets World , and ...
He also starred alongside Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in their last Broadway play, The Visit. Related: Soap Star Francisco San Martin Dead at 39.
A Child Is Born is a poetic Christmas drama in one act by Stephen Vincent Benét.It was first presented on radio on December 21, 1942, as part of the anthology program Cavalcade of America, [1] the production starred the famous husband-and-wife team of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
The play is set in Finland between 1938 and 1940 and concerns a Nobel Prize-winning Finnish scientist (portrayed by Alfred Lunt, whose own stepfather was a Finnish-born physician) and his American-born wife (portrayed by Lynn Fontanne), both of whom are reluctant to believe that the Russians will invade their beloved Finland.