Alfred Lunt

From Wikipedia Alfred Lunt August 12 1892 August 3 1977 was an American stage director and actor often identified for a longtime professional partnership with his wife actress Lynn Fontanne Broadways LuntFontanne 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 preeminent Broadway acting couple of American history having the LuntFontanne Theatre on Broadway named in their honour Secure in their public image as a happily married couple they could play adulterers as in Robert Sherwoods Reunion in Vienna or as part of a ménage a trois in Noël Cowards 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 Lynns 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