Lynn Fontanne

Fontanne made a few sparing appearances in film and TV. She appeared in two silent films, "Second Youth" (1924, with her husband) and "The Man Who Found Himself" (1925). Lunt and Fontanne starred in the stiff, stagy talkie version of "The Guardsman" in 1931, which earned them Oscar nominations as Best Actor and Best Actress, and the two appeared as themselves in the all-star "Stage Door Canteen" (1943). Fontanne made her TV debut narrating the Mary Martin starrer "Peter Pan" (NBC, 1955) and co-starred with her husband in "The Great Sebastians" (NBC, 1957) and "The Magnificent Yankee" (NBC, 1965). Solo, she made her TV swan song as the Dowager Empress opposite Julie Harris in "Anastasia" (NBC, 1967). After Lunt's 1977 death, Fontanne retired to their Wisconsin home. At her death, her age was variously given as 91, 95 and 101, though the middle figure seems to have been accurate.