Dorothy Loudon's Birth Card: The 7 of Clubs

In the record

Dorothy Loudon (September 17, 1925 – November 15, 2003) was an American actress and singer. The birth-card coordinate for September 17 is the 7 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1977 Best Actress in a Musical (Annie) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1977 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical — Annie as Miss Hannigan

The 7 of Clubs coordinate

Dorothy Loudon's birthday maps to the 7 of Clubs (The Analytical Creator). 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 Dorothy Loudon. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take a claim apart until the usable piece is left, then you use it.

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Dorothy Loudon in the public record

She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1977 for her performance as Miss Hannigan in Annie. Loudon was also nominated for Tony Awards for her lead performances in the musicals The Fig Leaves Are Falling and Ballroom, as well as a Golden Globe award for her appearances on The Garry Moore Show. Loudon was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1925 (she later shaved eight years off her age), to James Edwin Loudon and Dorothy Helen Loudon (née Shaw). She was raised in Claremont, New Hampshire, and Indianapolis, Indiana. She attended Syracuse University on a drama scholarship but did not graduate, and moved to New York City to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She began singing in night clubs, one such being New York's Blue Angel, mingling song with ad-libbed comedy patter, and was featured on television on The Perry Como Show and The Ed Sullivan Show. Loudon made her stage debut in 1962 in The World of Jules Feiffer, a play with incidental music by Stephen Sondheim, under the direction of Mike Nichols. That same year she made her Broadway debut in Nowhere to Go but Up, which ran only two weeks but earned her good reviews and the Theatre World Award.

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

Where the record meets the 4 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 Dorothy Loudon, and not a forecast of a Tony.

Loyalty and follow-through in love

She followed this with a revival of Three Men on a Horse directed by George Abbott; Lolita, My Love, which closed out-of-town during its pre-Broadway tryout; and a revival of the Clare Boothe Luce comedy The Women.

Paired on shared wording: followed, love. This line comes from the Result / Cosmic Reward position of the 7♣'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. In 1969, The Fig Leaves Are Falling ran for only four performances, although it won her the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance and a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical.
2. She followed this with a revival of Three Men on a Horse directed by George Abbott; Lolita, My Love, which closed out-of-town during its pre-Broadway tryout; and a revival of the Clare Boothe Luce comedy The Women.
3. Loudon's performance as the evil orphanage administrator Miss Hannigan in Annie won her the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical in 1977.
4. In the show she introduced the seminal showtunes "Little Girls" and "Easy Street." Of her portrayal, Clive Barnes wrote, "As the wicked Miss Hannigan, Dorothy Loudon, eyes bulging with envy, face sagging with hatred, is deliciously and deliriously horrid.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Anne Bancroft — 1960 Best Actress in a Play (The Miracle Worker)
• Deanna Dunagan — 2008 Best Actress in a Play (August: Osage County)
• Frances McDormand — 2011 Best Actress in a Play (Good People)
• Ian McKellen — 1981 Best Actor in a Play (Amadeus)
• Irene Worth — 1965 Best Actress in a Play (Tiny Alice); 1976 Best Actress in a Play (Sweet Bird of Youth)
• Leslie Uggams — 1968 Best Actress in a Musical (Hallelujah, Baby!)
• Linda Lavin — 1987 Best Actress in a Play (Broadway Bound)
• Myles Frost — 2022 Best Actor in a Musical (MJ)
• Sandy Dennis — 1964 Best Actress in a Play (Any Wednesday)

FAQ

What is Dorothy Loudon's birth card?

The 7 of Clubs. September 17 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 Dorothy Loudon's dates come from?

Birth date 1925-09-17 is the day-precision date on Dorothy Loudon'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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