Alexis Smith's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds

In the record

Margaret Alexis Fitzsimmons Smith (June 8, 1921 – June 9, 1993) was an American actress, pin-up girl and singer. The birth-card coordinate for June 8 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1972 Best Actress in a Musical (Follies) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1972 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical — Follies as Phyllis Rogers Stone

The 9 of Diamonds coordinate

Alexis Smith's birthday maps to the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal Provider). 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 a Tony Award and not a verdict on Alexis Smith. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back.

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Alexis Smith in the public record

She appeared in several major Hollywood films in the 1940s and had a notable career on Broadway in the 1970s, winning a Tony Award in 1972 for the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical Follies. Smith was born in Penticton, British Columbia, the only child of Gladys Mabel Smith (née Fitzsimmons; a Canadian) and Alexander Smith (a Scot). Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was about a year old. Her parents both became naturalized U.S. citizens in 1939, through which she derived her United States citizenship. She grew up in Los Angeles, attending Hollywood High School along with other future talents, including actress Nanette Fabray. Smith made her professional debut performing ballet at the Hollywood Bowl. She was discovered in 1940 at Los Angeles City College, acting in a school production, by a Warner Bros. talent scout. She was in the college's theatrical training program and graduated with a degree in drama.

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

Where the record meets the 8 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 Alexis Smith, and not a forecast of a Tony.

Commanding emotional situations with strength and clarity

Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was about a year old.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: family.

Also on the record

1. After being discovered by a talent scout while attending college, Smith was signed to a contract by Warner Bros.
2. Her early film roles were uncredited bit parts in films like Lady with Red Hair (1940), She Couldn't Say No (1940), Flight from Destiny (1941), The Great Mr.
3. Nobody (1941), Here Comes Happiness (1941), Affectionately Yours (1941), Singapore Woman (1941), Passage from Hong Kong (1941) and Three Sons o' Guns (1941).
4. Her first credited role was in the feature film Dive Bomber (1941), playing the female lead opposite Errol Flynn.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Brian Bedford — 1971 Best Actor in a Play (The School for Wives)
• Geoffrey Rush — 2009 Best Actor in a Play (Exit the King)
• Jefferson Mays — 2004 Best Actor in a Play (I Am My Own Wife)
• Joaquina Kalukango — 2022 Best Actress in a Musical (Paradise Square)
• Joshua Henry — 2026 Best Actor in a Musical (Ragtime)
• Katharine Cornell — 1948 Best Actress in a Play (Antony and Cleopatra)
• Mark Rylance — 2008 Best Actor in a Play (Boeing-Boeing); 2011 Best Actor in a Play (Jerusalem)
• Robert Preston — 1958 Best Actor in a Musical (The Music Man); 1967 Best Actor in a Musical (I Do! I Do!)

FAQ

What is Alexis Smith's birth card?

The 9 of Diamonds. June 8 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?

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 Alexis Smith's dates come from?

Birth date 1921-06-08 is the day-precision date on Alexis Smith's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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