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Fredric March's Birth Card: The 8 of Hearts

1947 Best Actor in a Play (Years Ago); 1957 Best Actor in a Play (Long Day's Journey into Night)

Born August 31, 1897

Died April 14, 1975

The Emotional Powerhouse

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In the record

Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars of the 1930s and 1940s. The birth-card coordinate for August 31 is the 8 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1947 Best Actor in a Play (Years Ago); 1957 Best Actor in a Play (Long Day's Journey into Night) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

The 8 of Hearts coordinate

Fredric March's birthday maps to the 8 of Hearts (The Emotional Powerhouse). 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 Fredric March. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold the emotional room without taking it over. People know where they stand.

Live 8 of Hearts meaning page

Fredric March in the public record

As a performer he was known for his versatility. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, two Tony Awards, two Volpi Cups, the Silver Bear, as well as nominations for three BAFTA Awards and three Emmy Awards. March began his career in 1920, by working as an extra in movies filmed in New York City. He made his stage debut on Broadway in 1926 at the age of 29, and by the end of the decade, he had signed a film contract with Paramount Pictures. He made seven pictures in 1929. He went on to receive two Academy Awards, for his performances in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).

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

Where the record meets the 8 of Spades

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Cards in Fredric March's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → 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.

You take the hard lead and you stay with the work after the call is made.

8♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement, fixed to the 8♥, from the published 8 of Spades meaning

March gained popularity after establishing himself with leading man roles in films such as Honor Among Lovers (1931), Merrily We Go to Hell (1932), Design for Living (1933), Death Takes a Holiday, The Barretts of Wimpole Street (both 1934), Les Misérables, Anna Karenina, The Dark Angel (all 1935), Anthony Adverse (1936), Nothing Sacred (1937), and I Married a Witch (1942).

Paired on shared wording: leading, takes.

Also on the record

  1. His other Oscar-nominated performances were in the films The Royal Family of Broadway (1930), A Star is Born (1937), and Death of a Salesman (1951).
  2. March gained popularity after establishing himself with leading man roles in films such as Honor Among Lovers (1931), Merrily We Go to Hell (1932), Design for Living (1933), Death Takes a Holiday, The Barretts of Wimpole Street (both 1934), Les Misérables, Anna Karenina, The Dark Angel (all 1935), Anthony Adverse (1936), Nothing Sacred (1937), and I Married a Witch (1942).
  3. His later film roles include Executive Suite, The Bridges at Toko-Ri (both 1954), The Desperate Hours (1955), Inherit the Wind (1960), and Seven Days in May (1964).
  4. He made his final film appearance in The Iceman Cometh (1973).

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FAQ

What is Fredric March's birth card?
The 8 of Hearts. August 31 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 Fredric March's dates come from?
Birth date 1897-08-31 is the day-precision date on Fredric March'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 (Q181819) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Fredric March). Birth date 1897-08-31 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).