
	Where results make sense

Topic: Lynn Fontanne

Related Topics

Vladimir Bartol

Loretta Swit

Marble Palace

Vietnam Navy Gallantry Cross

English poetry

Tsukui, Kanagawa

Cass County, Illinois

Undersea telegraph cable

	Lunt, Alfred, and Lynn Fontanne on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fontanne made her London debut in 1905 and her first appearance in New York City in 1910.
		A cigarette box inscribed from Noel Coward is on display at the home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, two of the top stage actors in the 1920s, in Genessee Depot, Wisconsin.
		The estate of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, two of the top stage actors in the 1920s, has been restored in Genessee Depot, Wisconsin.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Lunt-A1lf.asp (592 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Lunt, Alfred , and Lynn Fontanne
		Fontanne was named Lillie Louise when she was born in Woodford in the English county of Essex on December 6, 1887.
		Fontanne's father, Jules Pierre Antoine Fontanne, was a type designer and ran a printing factory that he had inherited from his father.
		Fontanne began her professional career in 1905 at the age of eighteen.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/lunt_fontanne.html (750 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Lynn Fontanne
		Lynn Fontanne was once described by a drama critic as "one of our two most gifted comic actors" (the other one was Fontanne's husband and stage partner, Alfred Lunt).
		Fontanne was born on December 6, 1887, to Jules Pierre Antoine Fontanne, a brass type founder, and Frances Ellen Fontanne.
		Fontanne told him they would accept only if there would be no "swimming, high diving, fast horseback riding, or any of those things you do out there in the movies." Thalberg agreed to her rules, and the Lunts flew to Hollywood to make the movie that would earn them both Academy Award nominations.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3728&source_type=A (869 words)

	Lunt, Alfred; and Fontanne, Lynn -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lunt, Alfred; and Fontanne, Lynn -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Settled in 1629 as Saugus, it was incorporated as a town in 1629 and renamed in 1637 for Lynn Regis, England.
		A seemingly ageless star on Broadway for 40 years, Lynn Fontanne joined with her husband, Alfred Lunt, to form one of the greatest husband-and-wife teams in the history of the theater.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9049392?tocId=9049392 (839 words)

	Ten Chimneys: Who were Lynn Fontanne & Alfred Lunt?
		Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are widely considered the greatest acting team in the history of American theatre.
		By the mid 1920s, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were the two most respected, most popular, most critically acclaimed, and highest-paid stage actors in the country.
		Ten Chimneys, the estate lovingly created by theatre legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, is open to the public as a world-class house museum and resource for theatre, arts, and arts education.
	www.tenchimneys.org /lynn_and_alfred.php (1309 words)

	Ten Chimneys, Genesee Depot, Wisconsin - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are widely considered the greatest acting team in the history of theatre.
		By the mid 1 920s, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were the two most respected, most popular, most critically acclaimed, and highest-paid stage actors in the country.
		A monument at their grave reads, “Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were universally regarded as the greatest acting team in the history of the English speaking theatre.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /ten_chimmeys.htm (483 words)

	JS Online: Lunt-Fontanne hospitality was legendary, too
		For decades, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were considered the first couple of the American theater, and their estate reflects their status.
		Once there, as Maurice Zolotow recounts in his 1968 biography of the Lunts, "Stage Struck," you would be greeted by Lynn Fontanne, who would almost certainly be standing at the foot of the curving stairway in the entrance hall, surrounded by festive images of welcome and hospitality painted onto the walls by muralist Claggett Wilson.
		During the war years, future actors Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave were often around, having been sent to Wisconsin for safety by their parents, British stage actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kemp.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/may03/139583.asp (1676 words)

	Traveling Exhibitions
		When the young English actress Lynn Fontanne arrived in New York in 1916, it did not take long for her to gain recognition as a performer of "extraordinary powers".
		This portrait dates from Fontanne's early years as a struggling actress in London and was painted by Wilfred de Glehn, for whom she often sat.
		Although Fontanne was struggling, she was not unappreciated in quarters that counted.
	www.npg.si.edu /cexh/nwomen/fontanne.htm (182 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2002192480
		This was Fontanne fantasy; what was true was that her maternal great-grandmother came from a titled family in Ireland, though Lynn apparently did not know it.
		When Lynn was in her teens, Jules Fontanne was called to the side of a dying French aunt.
		Lynn had to receive Ellen's messages through a neighboring plumber in Down Street, where she lived in a shabby-chic room with no water but fan windows and an Adam fireplace.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random045/2002192480.html (2214 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - This Is Local London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		LAST week the Guardian revealed the amazing rise to stardom of Woodford Green Broadway Babe Lynn Fontanne, charting her meteoric rise from her debut as a chorus girl in Cinderella to her marriage to American acting legend Alfred Lunt.
		Skilful use of makeup was, of course, part of the explanation for her agelessness but she also kept herself youthful by taking her obligatory daily hour-long hot bath, a brisk half-hour walk and stretching and bending exercises.
		Miss Fontanne appeared in three movies, Second Youth, The Guardsman and Stage Door Canteen and was seen on television towards the end of her career.
	www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=55994 (690 words)

	JS Online: Lynn Fontanne's wardrobe on exhibit
		Garments from actress Lynn Fontanne's personal wardrobe, dating from the 1930s to the 1970s, will be on display at Mount Mary College from Saturday through May 2004.
		Born in 1887, Fontanne, in company with her husband, Alfred Lunt, formed the premier acting team on the American stage from the 1920s into the 1950s.
		Lunt died in 1977 at age 84; Fontanne died in 1983 at 95.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/jun03/148767.asp (174 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Lynn Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lynn Canal, natural inlet, south-eastern Alaska, the most northern stretch of the Inside Passage.
		Canal, artificial waterway constructed for purposes of irrigation, drainage, or navigation, or in connection with a hydroelectric dam.
		Lunt and Fontanne, two actors who were husband and wife and who frequently worked together, Alfred Lunt (1893-1977), an American, and Lynn Fontanne...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Lynn_Canal.html (88 words)

	Alfred Lunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Along with his wife Lynn Fontanne, who he married May 26, 1922 in New York City, was half of the pre-eminent Broadway acting couple in American history.
		He appeared with Fontanne in over 24 plays - and most recently on an American postage stamp.
		Ten Chimneys, Alfred and Lynn's estate in southeast Wisconsin, is now a world-class house museum and resource center for theater.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Lunt (146 words)

	Ten Chimneys - Home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne
		Ten Chimneys was created over seventy-five years ago by the most revered acting team in American theatre history, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
		In 1922-23, after the Lunts were married, the house was extensively remodeled and the chicken coop was converted into a cottage for Lynn and Alfred to live in when they weren't performing.
		Lynn and Alfred named their Genesee Depot, Wisconsin, estate after the number of chimneys on the Main House, Cottage, and Studio combined.
	www.tenchimneys.org /index.php (1751 words)

	At Home in Wisconsin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne became stars of New York’s stages but returned each summer to Wisconsin and a place they called Ten Chimneys.
		Lynn would send knick knacks back from her travels with explicit instructions on how and where they should be placed in the house.
		After Lynn Fontanne’s death in 1983, the estate was in limbo for some years.
	www.neh.fed.us /news/humanities/1999-03/lunts.html (421 words)

	Footlights.com - Your Guide to Performing Arts and Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ten Chimneys, the 60-acre estate of stage legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, is at once a fantasy mansion and the house next door.
		The famed acting duo Lunt and Fontanne were elegance personified, much admired on and off the stage for their wit, talent, loyalty, and charm.
		In one, Lynn urges a young actress not to be nervous in an upcoming audition.
	www.footlights.com /ArchiveArticle-Details.cfm?ID=63 (866 words)

	'Design for Living: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, a Biography'
		Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne had style and charm and made a wonderful life in the theater.
		Lunt was greatly admired by those we think of as giants -- Olivier, Gielgud, Guinness -- and he was widely regarded as their American equivalent.
		I fully believe the inscription on their memorial: "Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were universally regarded as the greatest acting team in the history of the English-speaking theater.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20031221luntsbookfnp5.asp (672 words)

	Theater News - Tunes, Tomes, & Videos: Lord Alfred and Lady Lynn -
		For half a century, Lunt and Fontanne represented the pinnacle of sophistication for playgoers in North America and Britain.
		Fontanne, born in 1887, was a Londoner who crossed the Atlantic in 1916 in a company of players headed by Laurette Taylor.
		The first major biography, the sprightly, anecdotal Stagestruck: The Romance of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, appeared while both of the stars were still living and so the author, Maurice Zolotow, pulled his punches.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=4103 (1193 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Design for Living: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fontanne (1887-1983), a prot‚g‚e of Ellen Terry and Laurette Taylor, was critically applauded from the start.
		More poignantly, she quotes Fontanne as admitting Lunt's decision to lock himself into a team prevented him from achieving full recognition of his stature.
		DESIGN FOR LIVING is a biography of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, extremely popular husband and wife stage actors in the first half of the 20th century.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375411178 (858 words)

	’Design for Living’: When Icons Were Icons
		Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were commemorated by a postage stamp in 1999.
		First, because despite new material, her book is more concise; second, because from a greater distance clearer perspective and greater candor are possible; third, because Brown is a conscientious academic, but Peters, author of several fine theatrical and literary biographies, is a writer.
		Lynn Fontanne was born into a lower-middle-class British family in 1887.
	www.nytimes.com /2003/12/14/books/review/14SIMONT.html?ex=1386738000&en=8f3317b2992211da&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (801 words)

	Talkin' Broadway - What's New on the Rialto? - "Book Review: Design for Living: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne" - ...
		By the time Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne got married in 1922, they were both established actors on the verge of major stardom.
		A new biography of the couple, Margot Peters's Design for Living: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (Knopf; $30), was recently published.
		We read of how Lynn was mentored by Ellen Terry and Laurette Taylor, and the death of her fiancé in the First World War.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /rialto/past/2003/11_17_03.html (1182 words)

	NYPL Digital Gallery \| Results
		Lynn Fontanne as Jennifer Dibedat and Baliol Ho
		Lynn Fontanne as Jennifer Dubedat in the "Docto
		Baliol Holloway as Sir Colenso Ridgeon and Lynn
	digitalgallery.nypl.org /nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=303349&word= (76 words)

	Camp Broadway \| Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alfred Lunt was born on August 19, 1892 in Milwaukee.
		His career spanned almost 50 years, from his first performance in 1912 in Boston, to his final performance (with Lynn Fontanne) in The Visit in 1960.
		Lynn Fontanne was born on December 6, 1892 (although some sources say 1887 or even 1882).
	www.campbroadway.com /res-2.html (1021 words)

	Lynn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lynn is the name of some places in the United States of America:
		Lynn is also a part of the name of many famous people.
		Lynn Margulis, biologist and former wife of Carl Sagan
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Lynn.htm (205 words)

	UW-Madison Libraries News - Peters to discuss life of Broadway legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MADISON, Wis.-- Margot Peters, author and former professor of English at UW-Whitewater, will explore the interaction between artists and their milieu in a lecture titled "Genius and Place: Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, and Life at Ten Chimneys" on Thursday, September 30 at 4:30 p.m.
		When Broadway legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne took a break from New York city theater life, they would retire to Ten Chimneys, their estate in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin.
		Peters is the author of Design for Living: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, as well as several other biographies, including Unquiet Soul: a Biography of Charlotte Bronte, Bernard Shaw and the Actresses, Mrs.
	www.library.wisc.edu /libraries/news/releases/2004/20040923-Peters.shtml (224 words)

	Alibris: Lynn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born in 1935 into abject poverty, married at age 13, mother of six, and grandmother by age 29, Loretta Lynn went on to become one of the most prolific and influential singers in modern country music.
		Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were once described as "an amazing duet of intelligence and gaiety." In "Design for Living," Peters illuminates the brilliance, the fun, and the fireworks.
		The true story of Tommy Lynn Sells, considered one of the worst serial killers in history, and one of his victims--a ten-year-old girl--who survived her vicious attack and led authorities to the arrest of the 35-year-old drifter.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Lynn (1086 words)

	M2 Presswire: USPS: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne take national stage on U.S. postage stamp.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		M2 PRESSWIRE-24 February 1999-USPS: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne take national stage on U.S. postage stamp (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
		WASHINGTON - One of the greatest husband-and-wife acting teams ever to take the stage, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, will return to Broadway March 2 when a U.S. postage is officially dedicated to commemorate their contributions to American theater.
		Accomplished stage actors Uta Hagen and Judd Hirsch are expected to be on hand to help dedicate the stamp with Jim Boese, Director of Operations for the Nederlander...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:53957043&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (193 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Design for Living : Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were the greatest star couple of the American theater of the 20th century, probably of all time.
		Reading some of Peters' comments one can reason she herself doesn't completely believe they were gay but she is not about to let that rumor go since it's a good publicity angle for the book.
		And then there's the curious discreet hostility Peters has for Fontanne, yet she can come up with nothing to base this criticism like a rude diva-like personality or anything.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375411178?v=glance (1993 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)