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Ray Bolger's Birth Card: The 4 of Spades
The Rigid Truth
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
Raymond Wallace Bolger (January 10, 1904 – January 15, 1987) was an American vaudevillian, eccentric dancer, comedian, actor and singer best known for his performance as the Scarecrow in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. The birth-card coordinate for January 10 is the 4 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1949 Best Actor in a Musical (Where's Charley?) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 1949 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — Where's Charley? as Charley Wykeham
The 4 of Spades coordinate
Ray Bolger's birthday maps to the 4 of Spades (The Rigid Truth). 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 Ray Bolger. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build enough container that change can happen without the floor disappearing.
Ray Bolger in the public record
He first became interested in dancing as a teenager and, while working as a bank clerk in Boston, participated in dance contests and attended musical performances. In 1923, after being fired from a later job as an insurance clerk, he formed a short-lived vaudeville act, Sanford and Bolger, with Ralph Sanford. He went on to perform in several revues in the 1920s and early 1930s, as well as Gus Edwards' variety show Ritz Carlton Nights (which ran from 1926 to 1929). As vaudeville declined at the onset of the Great Depression, Bolger moved on to musical theatre and film, playing roles in Life Begins at 8:40 and The Great Ziegfeld before getting the lead in On Your Toes. In late 1938 he was chosen by MGM to play the Tin Woodman in The Wizard of Oz; unhappy with that part, he convinced MGM's executives to let him swap with Buddy Ebsen, who had been slated to play the Scarecrow. As a member of the USO Camp Shows, he entertained soldiers overseas during the Second World War and in 1943 appeared in the wartime film Stage Door Canteen. He starred in his own ABC sitcom The Ray Bolger Show, originally titled Where's Raymond?, from 1953 to 1955. In his later years he made frequent guest appearances in television shows, including The Jean Arthur Show, The Partridge Family, Little House on the Prairie and Diff'rent Strokes.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ray Bolger (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Ace of Diamonds
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 Ray Bolger, and not a forecast of a Tony.
Cards in Ray Bolger's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 4♠ — Birth Card: The Rigid Truth
- 4♥ — Karma — Environment: The Emotional Foundation Builder
- 10♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Master Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 10♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- A♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Wealth Pioneer
- A♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Emotional Pioneer
- 2♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Financial Partner
- 9♥ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Compassionate Idealist
- 7♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Analytical Creator
- 5♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Wise Guide
- J♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Creative Messenger
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.
Natural resource building and accumulation
In 1923, after being fired from a later job as an insurance clerk, he formed a short-lived vaudeville act, Sanford and Bolger, with Ralph Sanford.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: insurance.
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- No other leading Tony winner in this set shares the 4 of Spades.
FAQ
- What is Ray Bolger's birth card?
- The 4 of Spades. January 10 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 Ray Bolger's dates come from?
- Birth date 1904-01-10 is the day-precision date on Ray Bolger'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 (Q240886) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Ray Bolger). Birth date 1904-01-10 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).