Alfred Lunt
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Born:
Aug 12, 1892

Died:
Aug 03, 1977

Age: 84 Deceased

From:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Department:
Acting

Total Credits: 13

Avg Rating: 7.2

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Alfred Lunt

Also known as: Alfred Davis Lunt, Alfred Davis Lunt Jr.

Biography

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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 Americ...

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