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Alfred Lunt‌

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Alfred Lunt

Alfred Lunt

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1892-08-12

Popularity

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Biography

From Wikipedia Alfred Lunt (August 12, 1892 – August 3, 1977) was an American stage director and actor, often identified for a long-time professional partnership with his wife, actress Lynn Fontanne. Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre was named for them. Along with his wife Lynn Fontanne, whom he married on May 26, 1922, in New York City, he was half of the pre-eminent Broadway acting couple of American history, having the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway named in their honour. Secure in their public image as a happily married couple, they could play adulterers, as in Robert Sherwood's Reunion in Vienna, or as part of a ménage a trois in Noël Coward's Design for Living. (In fact, Design for Living, written for the Lunts, was so risqué, with its theme of bisexuality and a ménage à trois, that Coward premiered it in New York, knowing that it would not survive the censor in London.) The Lunts appeared together in more than twenty plays. They also appeared posthumously on an American postage stamp. The couple made one film together (The Guardsman; 1931), starred in several radio dramas for the Theatre Guild in the 1940s and starred in a few television productions in the 1950s and 1960s. They retired in 1966. In 1964, Lunt and Fontanne were presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon Johnson. Like Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Ten Chimneys, Alfred and Lynn's estate in Genesee Depot, located in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, is now a house museum and resource center for theater. Alfred Lunt died August 3, 1977, nine days before his 85th birthday, in Chicago from cancer. He is buried next to his wife at the Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee.

Movie Credits

The Guardsman

The Guardsman‌
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calendar 1931

Backbone

Backbone‌
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calendar 1923

Stage Door Canteen

Stage Door Canteen‌
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calendar 1943

Second Youth

Second Youth‌
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calendar 1924

Sally of the Sawdust

Sally of the Sawdust‌
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calendar 1925

Show-Business at War

Show-Business at War‌
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calendar 1943

Lovers in Quarantine

Lovers in Quarantine‌
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calendar 1925

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life‌
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calendar 1988

Tv Credits

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame‌
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calendar 1951

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show‌
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calendar 1948

Tony Awards

Tony Awards‌
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calendar 1956

The Dick Cavett Show

The Dick Cavett Show‌
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calendar 1968