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Grace Hartman's Birth Card: The 7 of Spades
The Questioning Mind
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
Grace Adelaide Hartman (born Grace Barrett; January 7, 1907 – August 8, 1955) was an American stage and musical theatre actress. The birth-card coordinate for January 7 is the 7 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1948 Best Actress in a Musical (Angel in the Wings) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 1948 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical — Angel in the Wings as Nettie / Mrs. Blodgett / Ruth / Mrs. Hutchinson
The 7 of Spades coordinate
Grace Hartman's birthday maps to the 7 of Spades (The Questioning Mind). 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 Grace Hartman. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You study the hard pattern until you can name it, then you do the next honest thing.
Grace Hartman in the public record
She was born in San Francisco, California. She was married to actor Paul Hartman from 1923 until they divorced in 1951. That same year, she married television director Norman Abbott. In 1949, Hartman and her then-husband co-starred in The Hartmans, a comedy series on NBC-TV. Grace Barrett Hartman Abbott died from cancer at her home in Van Nuys, California on August 8, 1955, aged forty-eight. She was survived by her husband, Norman Abbott, her stepchildren, Chrise and Billy Abbott, and the only child from her first marriage, television writer Ted Hartman. Ballyhoo of 1932 (September 6, 1932 – November 26, 1932) Red, Hot and Blue (October 29, 1936 – April 10, 1937) Keep 'em Laughing (April 24, 1942 – May 28, 1942) Top-Notchers (May 29, 1942 – June 20, 1942) Sketches by Grace Hartman (December 11, 1947 – September 4, 1948) Angel in the Wings (January 22, 1949 – May 7, 1949) Tickets, Please! (April 27, 1950 – November 25, 1950) She won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her role in Angel in the Wings. Grace Hartman at the Internet Broadway Database Grace Hartman at IMDb
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Grace Hartman (actress) (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 Grace Hartman, and not a forecast of a Tony.
Cards in Grace Hartman's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 7♠ — Birth Card: The Questioning Mind
- 8♥ — Karma — Environment: The Emotional Powerhouse
- K♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Wealthy King
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- K♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- J♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 4♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Financial Foundation Builder
- 5♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Restless Heart
- 5♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Restless Mind
- Q♥ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Devoted Nurturer
- 10♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Master Builder
- 8♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Businessman
- K♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Master of Thought
- 3♥ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Creative Heart
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.
Commanding emotional situations with strength and clarity
She was married to actor Paul Hartman from 1923 until they divorced in 1951.
Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: married.
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Darren Criss — 2025 Best Actor in a Musical (Maybe Happy Ending)
- George Grizzard — 1996 Best Actor in a Play (A Delicate Balance)
FAQ
- What is Grace Hartman's birth card?
- The 7 of Spades. January 7 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 Grace Hartman's dates come from?
- Birth date 1907-01-07 is the day-precision date on Grace Hartman'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 (Q5591202) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Grace Hartman (actress)). Birth date 1907-01-07 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).