Primetime Emmy winner · birth-card coordinate
Alfred Lunt's Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds
The Wealth Pioneer
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Emmy.
In the record
Alfred David Lunt (August 12, 1892 – August 3, 1977) was an American actor and director, best known for his long stage partnership with his wife, Lynn Fontanne, from the 1920s to 1960, co-starring in Broadway and West End productions. The birth-card coordinate for August 12 is the Ace of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1965 Lead performer (pre-genre split) win.
Primetime Emmy Lead record
- 1965 Lead performer (pre-genre split) as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (pre genre split)
The Ace of Diamonds coordinate
Alfred Lunt's birthday maps to the Ace of Diamonds (The Wealth Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Emmy and not a verdict on Alfred Lunt. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a resource in motion because you trust you can make and keep value.
Alfred Lunt in the public record
After their marriage, they nearly always appeared together. They became known as "the Lunts" and were celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic. Although they appeared in classics including The Taming of the Shrew, The Seagull and Pygmalion, and dark comedy by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Lunts were best known for their stylish performances in light comedies by Noël Coward, S. N. Behrman, Terence Rattigan and others, and romantic plays by writers such as Robert E. Sherwood. Lunt directed some of the couple's productions, and staged plays for other managements. Though they rarely acted for the camera, The Lunts each received an Emmy Award and were nominated for an Academy Award.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Alfred Lunt (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Ace of Hearts
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Alfred Lunt, and not a forecast of an Emmy.
Cards in Alfred Lunt's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- A♦ — Birth Card: The Wealth Pioneer
- A♥ — Karma — Environment: The Emotional Pioneer
- 2♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Financial Partner
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- J♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, A♦, so it adds no further cards to the path.
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Courage to initiate genuine emotional connection
After their marriage, they nearly always appeared together.
Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: marriage.
Also on the record
- The Lunts retired from the stage in 1960, and lived at their home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin.
- Lunt died in 1977 and Fontanne in 1983.
Other Emmy winners with this card
- Jack Albertson — 1976 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Chico and the Man)
- Jane Wyatt — 1958 Lead performer (pre-genre split) (Father Knows Best); 1959 Lead performer (pre-genre split) (Father Knows Best); 1960 Lead performer (pre-genre split) (Father Knows Best)
- Patricia Wettig — 1990 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Thirtysomething); 1991 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Thirtysomething)
- Phoebe Waller-Bridge — 2019 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Fleabag)
- Sally Field — 2007 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Brothers & Sisters)
- Tina Fey — 2008 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (30 Rock)
FAQ
- What is Alfred Lunt's birth card?
- The Ace of Diamonds. August 12 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict an Emmy?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Alfred Lunt's dates come from?
- Birth date 1892-08-12 is the day-precision date on Alfred Lunt's Wikipedia article infobox or lead, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Lead Actor/Actress wins come from the Primetime Emmy drama and comedy Wikipedia lists, which compile Television Academy (emmys.com) results. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Television Academy / Emmys (emmys.com) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Alfred Lunt; winner list) + Wikidata CC0 (Q1246683). Birth date 1892-08-12 is the Wikipedia day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).