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Constance Cummings's Birth Card: The 4 of Diamonds
The Financial Foundation Builder
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Tony Award.
In the record
Constance Cummings CBE (May 15, 1910 – November 23, 2005) was an American-British actress with a career spanning over 50 years. The birth-card coordinate for May 15 is the 4 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1979 Best Actress in a Play (Wings) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 1979 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play — Wings as Emily Stilson
The 4 of Diamonds coordinate
Constance Cummings's birthday maps to the 4 of Diamonds (The Financial Foundation Builder). 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 Constance Cummings. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it.
Constance Cummings in the public record
She starred in films such as Movie Crazy (1932) and American Madness (1932). Cummings was born on May 15, 1910, in Seattle, Washington, the only daughter and younger child of Kate Logan (née Cummings), a concert soprano, and Dallas Vernon Halverstadt, a lawyer. Cummings' parents separated when she was 10 years old, and she never saw her father again. She attended St. Nicholas Girls' School in Seattle. The San Diego Stock Company gave Cummings her initial acting opportunity in a "walk-on part" playing a prostitute in a 1926 production of Seventh Heaven. She debuted on Broadway as a chorus girl, a member of the ensemble in Treasure Girl (1928) by the age of 18. While appearing on Broadway, she was discovered by Samuel Goldwyn, who brought her to Hollywood in 1931.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Constance Cummings (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 5 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 Constance Cummings, and not a forecast of a Tony.
Cards in Constance Cummings's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 4♦ — Birth Card: The Financial Foundation Builder
- 5♥ — Karma — Environment: The Restless Heart
- 5♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Restless Mind
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 8♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- K♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
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.
Adaptability through emotional change and transition
Cummings' parents separated when she was 10 years old, and she never saw her father again.
Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: father.
Also on the record
- Between 1931 and 1934, Cummings appeared in more than 20 films, including Movie Crazy opposite Harold Lloyd and American Madness directed by Frank Capra.
- Cummings was married to playwright and screenwriter Benn Levy from July 3, 1933, until his death in 1973.
- As Levy was from the UK, Cummings moved there and continued acting in films and on the stage.
- Few of her films were hits in the U.S., but Blithe Spirit, adapted from the Noël Coward play, was popular.
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Anna Maria Alberghetti — 1962 Best Actress in a Musical (Carnival!)
- Basil Rathbone — 1948 Best Actor in a Play (The Heiress)
- Bette Midler — 2017 Best Actress in a Musical (Hello, Dolly!)
- Chita Rivera — 1984 Best Actress in a Musical (The Rink); 1993 Best Actress in a Musical (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
- Christine Ebersole — 2001 Best Actress in a Musical (42nd Street); 2007 Best Actress in a Musical (Grey Gardens)
- Glenn Close — 1984 Best Actress in a Play (The Real Thing); 1992 Best Actress in a Play (Death and the Maiden); 1995 Best Actress in a Musical (Sunset Boulevard)
- Glynis Johns — 1973 Best Actress in a Musical (A Little Night Music)
- Heather Headley — 2000 Best Actress in a Musical (Aida)
- Mary Martin — 1950 Best Actress in a Musical (South Pacific); 1955 Best Actress in a Musical (Peter Pan); 1960 Best Actress in a Musical (The Sound of Music)
- Paul Kelly — 1948 Best Actor in a Play (Command Decision)
- Sarah Snook — 2025 Best Actress in a Play ('''The Picture of Dorian Gray''')
- Thomas Mitchell — 1953 Best Actor in a Musical (Hazel Flagg)
- 1 more leading winners share this card.
FAQ
- What is Constance Cummings's birth card?
- The 4 of Diamonds. May 15 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 Constance Cummings's dates come from?
- Birth date 1910-05-15 is the day-precision date on Constance Cummings'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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Sources: Tony Awards (tonyawards.com) + Wikipedia leading-acting lists + Wikidata CC0 (Q449916) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Constance Cummings). Birth date 1910-05-15 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).