Word: lunt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman heroine of Shaw's Candida. Not about to be upstaged at home, Kit jauntily raised ANTA'S gold medal to her eye like a monocle while a telegram from the only previous winners of the award was read to "We're so proud," cabled Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, "to be at last in your Company...
While the two leads can scarcely dispel the powerful memory of the 1958 Lunt-Fontanne production, they establish their own interpretations with unstrained validity. Rachel Roberts brings a commandingly icy meanness to Clara while hinting at a lost tenderness. In recent seasons, John McMartin has established himself as an actor of distinctive range. He has played the disenchanted author in Follies, the skeptical servant Sganarelle in Moliere's Don Juan, and the mask-divided soul Dion Anthony in O'Neill's The Great God Brown. Now, as the hero of The Visit, he is initially bland, wistfully...
...Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, D.Let., actors...
...dummies too; the entire talk-show circuit on radio and TV is overloaded with people who are plugging their books, plays, movies, recordings and, if nothing else, their egos. But for the most part, Cavett's guests are intelligent, entertaining and at times controversial. Sir Noel Coward and Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne once treated Cavett's audience to an evocative and amusing evening. On a two-week series taped in London, Cavett produced an extraordinary constellation of British humorists, theater people and politicians. Fred Astaire, Jack Benny and Robert Mitchum have each received a full 90 minutes of attention...
...very disappointing, so I rang him up. "Is that all I get?a lousy $290?" I asked. The producer testily explained that this was the customary fee given to all the artists who appear on the Cavett show. "That's what we paid Sir Noel Coward, Alfred Lunt and Sir John Gielgud." Well frankly," I retorted. " I don't see why people like Noel, Al, Jack and I should?" He hung...