Friday, May 30, 2008

10. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne - World's Famous Love Story

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are hailed as the first family of the American Theater. They are accepted as the greatest acting team worldwide. He was a farm boy from Wiscosin and she was a delicate English beauty.

Stage star couple, Alfred and Fontanne, for the first time appeared in a play, 'A Young Man Fancy', in 1919. They both got married in 1922. The masses were endured to see their fairytale romance.

Alfred and Lynn's fondness for excellence and commitment of Theater is legendary. They came to Ten Chimneys to retreat and repose. Lents together gave many theatrical performances here and because they were widely respected and famous, anyone from music, art and theater wanted to come to Ten Chimneys to work with them. Today, this estate is turned into house museum and is open for public. It is a unique landmark for national resource for theater, arts and art education. In the meantime Lunts won Emmy award and Fontanne appeared in a television movie.

In their 55 years long partnership they appeared in many Broadways and comedies by famous literary figures like George Bernard Shaw, Terrence Rattigan, and Noel Coward. For their contribution to theater, New York's famous Globe Theater was renamed Lunt-Fontanne Theater. They left the stage in 1958 and retired in Wisconsin farmhouse.

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