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...taxis go unhailed. She marks a major career setback by measuring its small reverberations in her life-style. Similarly, she captures the human foibles of theatrical luminaries, such as Katharine Cornell's tendency to flutter her hands immediately before going onstage. Artists like Sir John Gieglud and Alfred Lunt are for the author magnificent human beings. Olivier in particular emerges not so much as the world's finest actor but as a perfect gentleman, treating young, awed actors as collegues, drinking with them, exchanging stories with them and giving advice. The gift of great actors is first and foremost their...
Lynn Fontanne, actress, on her 55-year marriage to the late Alfred Lunt: "We usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were sort of realistic actors, we became those two people. I had an affair with him, so to speak, and he with...
...concern was a feeling of being abandoned by the press. "Let them move on to their next thing," said Jill Ruckleshaus, former head of the U.S. International Women's Year Commission. "They've done us no good." Boston University Professor Sally Lunt dramatically accused the press of "gearing up for a women-against-women bloodbath" at this fall's National Women's Conference in Houston...
DIED. Alfred Lunt, 84, celebrated actor and director who with his wife Lynn Fontanne reigned over Broadway for nearly four decades; of cancer; in Chicago. The Lunts, who began acting together on Broadway soon after they were married in 1922, co-starred in more than two dozen plays (The Guardsman, Reunion in Vienna, There Shall Be No Night, The Visit), some of which Lunt also directed. Creating a chemistry of opposites, he tall and temperamental, she lithe and blithe, theater's royal couple delighted playgoers with their consummate craftsmanship and their sophisticated badinage both onstage and off. Though...
Still it was not a perfect Traviata. Created nine years ago by Director Alfred Lunt and Designer Cecil Beaton, this production has Violetta's bedroom looking like a barn in winter-something Walt Disney might have conceived in homage to Charles Addams. Because the windows are so high and remote, the poor girl cannot even get to the win dow to watch the revelers in the last act. The current stage director, Fabrizio Melano, has not really resolved all the old problems: the Baron's challenge to Alfredo in Act III, for example, comes off much too tame...