Rex Harrison's Birth Card: The 5 of Spades

In the record

Sir Reginald Carey Harrison (5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990) was an English actor. The birth-card coordinate for March 5 is the 5 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1965 Best Actor — My Fair Lady win.

Academy Award record

• 1965 Best Actor — My Fair Lady

The 5 of Spades coordinate

Rex Harrison's birthday maps to the 5 of Spades (The Restless Mind). 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 Rex Harrison. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay in the hard stretch long enough to get better at it.

Live 5 of Spades meaning page

Rex Harrison in the public record

Harrison began his career on the stage at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1924. He made his West End debut in 1936 appearing in the Terence Rattigan play French Without Tears, in what was his breakthrough role. He won his first Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance as Henry VIII in the Broadway play Anne of the Thousand Days in 1949. He returned to Broadway portraying Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (1956) where he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. In addition to his stage career, Harrison also appeared in numerous films. His first starring role opposite Vivien Leigh was in the romantic comedy Storm in a Teacup (1937). Receiving critical acclaim for his performance in Major Barbara (1941), which was shot in London during the Blitz, his roles since then included Blithe Spirit (1945), Anna and the King of Siam (1946), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Cleopatra (1963), My Fair Lady (1964), reprising his stage role as Henry Higgins which won him an Academy Award for Best Actor, and the titular character in Doctor Dolittle (1967).

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

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 5♠, 4♦, 10♥, 6♥, 3♦, 4♣, J♥, 9♣, 9♠, 2♥, K♥, K♦, 2♦, J♠, 8♣, 6♦, 4♠, 10♦, 8♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an Oscar.

Also on the record

1. In 1975, Harrison released his first autobiography.
2. In June 1989, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
3. He was married six times and had two sons: Noel and Carey Harrison.
4. He continued working in stage productions until shortly before his death from pancreatic cancer in June 1990 at the age of 82.

Other winners with this card

• Marlon Brando — 1955 Best Actor — On the Waterfront; 1973 Best Actor — The Godfather

FAQ

What is Rex Harrison's birth card?

The 5 of Spades. March 5 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 Rex Harrison's dates come from?

Birth date 1908-03-05 is the day-precision date on Rex Harrison'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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