Word: lunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Durance, and ranging from Cole Porter tunes to an all-Negro Carmen-are already set, scheduled, or signed for. There will be more vaudeville. There will be comedies by Lindsay & Grouse (the adapters of Life With Father), John Van Druten, Philip Barry (starring Katharine Hepburn), S. N. Behrman (starring Lunt & Fontanne). But Comedy-Writers Kaufman & Hart, Clare Boothe, Rachel Crothers, Noel Coward have nothing announced; nor have Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck, Lillian Hellman, Clifford Odets. Katharine Cornell plans to revive Chekhov's The Three Sisters and Paul Robeson may go to Broadway with Othello (TIME...
Moderately famed for his souffles, Actor Alfred Lunt turned cooking instructor, took on a class of 50 beginners for a three-week course in everything from soft-boiled eggs to risotto. The $10 tuitions go to the American Theater Wing's war work. Among his pupils: wife Lynn Fontanne, Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett, Peggy Wood, Elsa Maxwell, Mrs. Brock Pemberton...
...Ninotchka, Director Ernst Lubitsch deliciously kidded the vagaries of the Soviets; in To Be he succeeds-as Hollywood had not yet done-in deftly ridiculing Hitler and his Nazis. His story is an actor's-eye-view of the Nazi occupation of Poland. As the Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne of Warsaw's Polski troupe, the Turas (Jack Benny and Miss Lombard) are a brittle couple. Their favorite soliloquy is Hamlet's To be, or not to be. . . . He likes to deliver it because it flatters his ego, at length; she likes it because it gives her time...
...Doctor's Dilemma (by George Bernard Shaw, produced by Katharine Cornell) is 35 years old. It was last played on Broadway by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1927. Now Katharine Cornell gives it probably as witty and handsome a production as it has ever...
...removable teeth got his third gold statue as the best supporting male (Judge Bean, in The Westerner). To stuttering, slue-footed James Stewart, who stood low in this year's forecasts but high in esteem for an unrewarded 1939 job in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Alfred Lunt handed the prize for 1940's best male acting (The Philadelphia Story). As the wassail ended. Banquet Chief John LeRoy Johnston was last seen frantically bellowing into the microphone for winners "and Miss Lunt and Mr. Fontanne" (sic) to go below for newsreels. Ginger gushed a tribute to "my mother...