Word: lunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vehicle jobs, for the Lunts, have a sort of advantage over solider plays: the pair can trot out their whole repertory of tricks, they can be versatile and uninhibited, they can be Lunt & Fontanne. In O Mistress Mine they romp happily up & down the comedy ladder-high comedy and broad comedy, badinage and burlesque-wowing the audience on every rung. If Actress Fontanne is a little too bubbly and gurgly at times, few of the customers seem to mind...
...first teamed up, not to write but to rewrite a new book for Anything Goes, which subsequently became an Ethel Merman smash hit. After two more musicomedy successes, they pined for words without music, set about dramatizing Life With Father. The script aroused so little enthusiasm that Alfred Lunt, Roland Young, Walter Huston all turned down the title role. Lindsay himself finally took the part...
...Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, who went to London in 1943 for a four-month run of There Shall Be No Night (which stretched out to a year and a half), finally came home-with plans for bringing their new Love in Idleness to Broadway as Oh, Mistress Mine. Having just made a U.S.O. tour of western Europe, Actor Lunt declared: "It's going to be very difficult to play before common people-that is, civilians-again...
...Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne in Love in Idleness, and a leggy Billy Rose Diamond Horseshoe Revue...
Meanwhile, General George Patton arrived in London, hurried off to see Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in Love In Idleness. He, too, got cheers...