Gertrude Lawrence's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds

In the record

Gertrude Lawrence (4 July 1898 – 6 September 1952) was an English actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End of London and on Broadway in New York. The birth-card coordinate for July 4 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1952 Best Actress in a Musical (The King and I) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1952 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical — The King and I as Anna Leonowens

The Jack of Diamonds coordinate

Gertrude Lawrence's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). 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 Gertrude Lawrence. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.

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Gertrude Lawrence in the public record

Lawrence was born in 1898 in Newington, London, of English and Danish descent. Her name at birth was registered as Gertrude Alice Dagmar Klasen. Other variants of her birth name include Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence-Klasen, and Gertrude Alexandra Dagmar Klasen. Her father was a basso profondo who performed under the name Arthur Lawrence. His heavy drinking led her mother Alice to leave him soon after Gertrude's birth. In 1904, her stepfather took the family to Bognor on the Sussex coast for the August bank holiday. While there, they attended a concert where audience members were invited to entertain. At her mother's urging, young Gertrude sang a song and was rewarded with a gold sovereign for her effort.

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

Where the record meets the King of Clubs

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 Gertrude Lawrence, and not a forecast of a Tony.

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He saw Lawrence at an opening night party at Ivor Novello's invitation two days before she was cleared to return to work by her doctor.

Paired on shared wording: cleared, opening.

Also on the record

1. It was her first public performance.
2. In 1908, to augment the family's meagre income, Alice accepted a job in the chorus of the Christmas pantomime at Brixton Theatre.
3. A child who could sing and dance was needed to round out the troupe, and Alice volunteered her daughter.
4. While working in the production Alice heard of Italia Conti, who taught dance, elocution and the rudiments of acting.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Ethel Merman — 1951 Best Actress in a Musical (Call Me Madam)
• Gregory Hines — 1992 Best Actor in a Musical (Jelly's Last Jam)
• Harvey Fierstein — 1983 Best Actor in a Play (Torch Song Trilogy); 2003 Best Actor in a Musical (Hairspray)
• John Lloyd Young — 2006 Best Actor in a Musical (Jersey Boys)
• Lesley Manville — 2026 Best Actress in a Play (Oedipus)
• Mary-Louise Parker — 2001 Best Actress in a Play (Proof); 2020 Best Actress in a Play (The Sound Inside)
• Thelma Ritter — 1958 Best Actress in a Musical (New Girl in Town)
• Tracy Letts — 2013 Best Actor in a Play (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

FAQ

What is Gertrude Lawrence's birth card?

The Jack of Diamonds. July 4 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 Gertrude Lawrence's dates come from?

Birth date 1898-07-04 is the day-precision date on Gertrude Lawrence'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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