Paul Hartman's Birth Card: The 9 of Spades

In the record

Paul Hartman (March 1, 1904 – October 2, 1973) was an American dancer, stage performer and television actor. The birth-card coordinate for March 1 is the 9 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1948 Best Actor in a Musical (Angel in the Wings) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1948 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — Angel in the Wings as Various Characters

The 9 of Spades coordinate

Paul Hartman's birthday maps to the 9 of Spades (The Idealistic 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 Paul Hartman. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You complete the hard stretch and put the lesson down.

Live 9 of Spades meaning page

Paul Hartman in the public record

Born in San Francisco, Hartman was the son of Ferris Hartman, who was sometimes called the "Ziegfeld of the Pacific Coast" and actress Josie Hart. He began performing as a dancer with his sister when he was 4 years old. Hartman attended the University of California (UC). After he left there, he worked for a newspaper in San Francisco, beginning as a copy boy and later becoming a reporter. He left the newspaper for the theater because the latter offered more money. After graduating from UC, he worked "with a pick and shovel" as an employee of San Francisco in Golden Gate Park. In 1922, he teamed up with Grace Barrett for a dancing comedy vaudeville act that consisted of them both paying homage to and gently mocking the popular dances of the day, from ballet to swing. They married in 1923.

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

Where the record meets the King 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 Paul Hartman, and not a forecast of a Tony.

You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it. You carry authority in the realm of feeling—the maturity and depth to lead others emotionally and hold space with real strength. At your best, you command emotional situations with both power and authentic care, the steady presence people anchor to.

They had the 1948 musical revue Angel in the Wings, and the Hartmans were named best lead actor and actress in a musical that year at the second Tony Awards (the first to recognize musical performers).

Paired on shared wording: best, lead.

Also on the record

1. Along with Grace, Paul made his Broadway debut in Ballyhoo of 1932.
2. He appeared in Cole Porter's Red Hot and Blue (1936) and continued to perform on the Great White Way.
3. Their act involved the crisp and witty Grace overwhelming the gangly, slack-jawed Paul, intermittently cut with dance numbers and musical comedy routines.
4. They went to Hollywood, where Paul appeared in 1943's Higher and Higher.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Nathan Lane — 1996 Best Actor in a Musical (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum); 2001 Best Actor in a Musical (The Producers)

FAQ

What is Paul Hartman's birth card?

The 9 of Spades. March 1 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 Paul Hartman's dates come from?

Birth date 1904-03-01 is the day-precision date on Paul 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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