Ray Milland's Birth Card: The Jack of Spades

In the record

Ray Milland (born Alfred Reginald Jones; 3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh and American actor. The birth-card coordinate for January 3 is the Jack of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1946 Best Actor — The Lost Weekend win.

Academy Award record

• 1946 Best Actor — The Lost Weekend

The Jack of Spades coordinate

Ray Milland's birthday maps to the Jack of Spades (The Messenger of Truth). 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 Academy Award and not a verdict on Ray Milland. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name what is actually happening and you remain after you have said it.

Live Jack of Spades meaning page

Ray Milland in the public record

Initially known as a star of light comedies, he achieved a dramatic breakthrough with his portrayal of an alcoholic writer in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend (1945). His performance earned him the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, a Golden Globe Award, and ultimately an Academy Award—the first such accolades for any Welsh-born actor. Before becoming an actor, Milland served in the Household Cavalry of the British Army, becoming a proficient marksman, horseman and aeroplane pilot. He left the army to pursue a career in acting and appeared as an extra in several British productions before getting his first major role in The Flying Scotsman (1929). This led to a nine-month contract with MGM, and he moved to the United States, where he worked as a stock actor. After his MGM contract ended, Milland was picked up by Paramount, which used him in a range of lesser speaking parts, usually as an English character. He was lent to Universal for the Deanna Durbin musical Three Smart Girls (1936), and its success led to Milland's playing the lead role in The Jungle Princess (also 1936) alongside new starlet Dorothy Lamour. The film was quite successful and raised both to stardom.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ray Milland (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Jack of Spades

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 Ray Milland, and not a forecast of an Oscar.

Courage to speak difficult truths

Before becoming an actor, Milland served in the Household Cavalry of the British Army, becoming a proficient marksman, horseman and aeroplane pilot.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: army, pilot.

Also on the record

1. Milland remained with Paramount for almost 20 years.
2. Milland appeared in many other notable films, including Easy Living (1937), Beau Geste (1939), Billy Wilder's The Major and the Minor (1942), opposite a corrupt John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind (1942), The Uninvited (1944), Fritz Lang's Ministry of Fear (1944), The Big Clock (1948) and The Thief (1952)—for which he was nominated for his second Golden Globe.
3. Two standout films later in his career include Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder (1954) and Love Story (1970).
4. After leaving Paramount, he began directing and moved into television acting.

Other winners with this card

• Clark Gable — 1935 Best Actor — It Happened One Night

FAQ

What is Ray Milland's birth card?

The Jack of Spades. January 3 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict an Oscar?

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 Ray Milland's dates come from?

Birth date 1907-01-03 is the day-precision date on Ray Milland's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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