Word: lunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fontanne's pet goose did not bite him. "I suppose he knew it was my birthday," said Alfred Lunt, 76. The quiet celebration took place on the Lunts' 110-acre country place in the rolling dairyland west of Milwaukee, where they have lived since their last major stage appearance in The Visit eight years ago. But the two troupers are still not ready to ring down the final curtain. Says Mrs. Lunt: "I'd probably swing back into my job if something really good came along." Says Mr. Lunt: "It's not over yet, you know...
Died. Richard Whorf, 60, man of all theater trades and master of some, Broadway actor in the Lunt-Fontanne ensemble in the 1930s, Hollywood character actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy) and director in the 1940s, and for the past few years TV director of Gunsmoke and The Beverly Hillbillies; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...champion of the belief that opera worth hearing is also worth seeing, he raided Broadway, Hollywood and London for directors and set designers of the caliber of Garson Kanin, Tyrone Guthrie, Alfred Lunt and Cecil Beaton, who were imaginative if not daring. And he has at least reduced the incidence of love duets between a bandy-legged tenor and an overstuffed loveseat of a so prano; only the tones, Bing discreetly has hinted, should be pear-shaped. Significantly, wardrobe mistresses at the Met report that over a few short years the average size of the women's costumes shrank...
...unthinkable as Juliet without Ro meo. Yet Lynn Fontanne, 78, theater's grande dame, announced that she would make her first appearance in 38 years without Husband Alfred Lunt. TV fans will get the chance to see if the flame's the same next season when Fontanne plays the dowager empress in NBC's Hallmark production of Anastasia. Alfred will not be left home to tend the petunias. He is scheduled to direct the Metropolitan Opera's new version of La Traviata at the same time. And as his wife says, "When Alfred is working with...