biography
| name: |
Lunt, Alfred (David)
|
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1892–1977)
|
| biography:
| Actor, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He studied at Carroll College, Waukesha, abandoned early plans to be an architect, and made his stage debut in 1912 with the Castle Square Theatre Company in Boston, MA. He met Lynne Fontanne in 1916, when they both appeared in A Young Man's Fancy. They were married in 1922, and from 1924 became a popular husband-and-wife team, known especially for their performances in Noel Coward's plays, such as Design for Living (1933). Broadway's Lunt–Fontanne Theatre, opened in 1958, was named in the couple's honour, and in 1964 they received the US Medal of Freedom. |
|
|
