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Lynn Fontanne (December 6, 1887 - July 30, 1983) was a famous stage and film star.

Acting career

Born Lillie Louise Fontanne in Woodford, Essex, England, she became famous as an acting pair with her husband, Alfred Lunt. The two were far more famous for their stage performances than for their few film roles. First becoming popular in the title role of George S. Kaufman and Marc Connolly's farce, Dulcy, she soon became celebrated for her skill as a an actress in high comedy, excelling in witty roles written for her by Noel Coward, S. N. Behrman and Robert Sherwood. By contrast, she enjoyed one of the greatest critical successes of her career as Nina Leeds, the desperate heroine of Eugene O'Neill's nine-act drama, Strange Interlude.

Fontanne only made three movies, and one film for television, but nevertheless, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931 for The Guardsman
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Personal Life

They lived for many years in bucolic Waukesha County, Wisconsin, but never had children. By all accounts, Lynn Fontanne was the most duplicitous of actresses regarding her true age. Her husband died believing she was 5 years older than him (as she had told him), and refused to believe anything to the contrary. She was, in fact, 5 years older, but continued to deny long after Lunt's death that she was born in 1887 (the year now attributed to her birth).

Lynn Lunt, as she is known in the Social Security Death Index (http://www.ancestry.com/ssdi) is interred next to her equally famous husband, Alfred Lunt, at the Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She never took out U.S. citizenship despite having been a U.S. resident since 1922.

She was survived by a niece.

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