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    Lynn Fontanne (/fɒnˈtæn/; 6 December 1887 – 30 July 1983) was an English actress. After early success in supporting roles in the West End, she met the...
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    Dillingham. The theater is named after theatrical couple Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne; its original name was inspired by that of the Globe Theatre, London's...
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    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...
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    drama school, Bari adopted the stage name Lynn Barrie, a composite of the names of theater actress Lynn Fontanne and author J. M. Barrie. After reading a...
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    of Marlon Brando, Spencer Tracy, Jessica Tandy, Tallulah Bankhead, Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt, Lois Smith. On the screen he can be seen in Shades of...
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    the first married couple to accomplish the feat since Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965. Bartlett was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, the daughter...
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    Welles, Noël Coward (who appeared on the same show with Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Tammy Grimes and Brian Bedford), John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Janis Joplin...
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    December 1969. Coward appeared as a guest, along with Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Tammy Grimes, and Brian Bedford, each of whom were enjoying a successful...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Berlin Leonard Bernstein Edwin Booth Katharine Cornell Noël Coward Lynn Fontanne Eva Le Gallienne George Gershwin Ira Gershwin Lillian Gish Oscar Hammerstein...
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    including Tallulah Bankhead, Ray Bolger, Clare Boothe, Ilka Chase, Lynn Fontanne, Helen Hayes, Burgess Meredith, Cornelia Otis Skinner, and Clifton Webb...
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    Mrs Patrick Campbell at the Aldwych Theatre 1926: Reginald Mason and Lynn Fontanne at the Guild Theatre (USA) 1936: Ernest Thesiger and Wendy Hiller at...
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  • their complicated three-way relationship. Originally written to star Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt and Coward, it was premiered on Broadway, partly because...
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    Tennessee Williams 1980 – Leonard Bernstein, James Cagney, Agnes de Mille, Lynn Fontanne, and Leontyne Price 1981 – Count Basie, Cary Grant, Helen Hayes, Jerome...
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  • Broadway production of The Taming of the Shrew, starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. He then became a regular part of the Lunt's unofficial rep company...
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    and Tallulah Bankhead, and in the mid-20th-century Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson and Vivien Leigh. More recently...
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    two of his most popular plays, Elizabeth the Queen (1930), starring Lynn Fontanne, and Mary of Scotland (1933), starring Helen Menken as Elizabeth. Elizabeth...
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    Queen by Maxwell Anderson—which had a successful run on Broadway with Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt in the lead roles—the film fictionalizes the historical...
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    and America, working through most of the 1930s with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne at the Theatre Guild. His stage roles ranged from musical comedy to...
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    the first married couple to accomplish the feat since Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965 for a production of The Magnificent Yankee for the Hallmark...
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    Honorees (1980s) 1980 Leonard Bernstein James Cagney Agnes de Mille Lynn Fontanne Leontyne Price 1981 Count Basie Cary Grant Helen Hayes Jerome Robbins...
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    Honorees (1980s) 1980 Leonard Bernstein James Cagney Agnes de Mille Lynn Fontanne Leontyne Price 1981 Count Basie Cary Grant Helen Hayes Jerome Robbins...
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    acting couples in the American theater, as iconic as Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, and Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, and they looked for opportunities...
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    Cornelia Otis Skinner, Fredric March, Tallulah Bankhead, Alfred Lunt, and Lynn Fontanne. In 1939, as a member of the cast of the 1939 Broadway production of...
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    Lynn Fontanne (Eliza) and Henry Travers (Alfred Doolittle) in the Theatre Guild production of Pygmalion (1926)...
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  • Williams, Babe Paley, Bunny Mellon, Clare Boothe Luce, Alfred Lunt/Lynn Fontanne, Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll and the Hon. Stephen Tennant....
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  • Devil in 1929 and including Reunion in Vienna, starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne; Both Your Houses, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Maxwell Anderson;...
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    Honorees (1980s) 1980 Leonard Bernstein James Cagney Agnes de Mille Lynn Fontanne Leontyne Price 1981 Count Basie Cary Grant Helen Hayes Jerome Robbins...
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    Sherwood's Idiot's Delight, featuring theatrical couple Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The play, the first show at the Shubert to be awarded the Pulitzer...
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