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Robert Preston's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds
The Universal Provider
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
Robert Preston Meservey (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and screen actor, best known for his role as Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man, for which he received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. The birth-card coordinate for June 8 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1958 Best Actor in a Musical (The Music Man); 1967 Best Actor in a Musical (I Do! I Do!) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 1958 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — The Music Man as Harold Hill
- 1967 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — I Do! I Do! as Michael
The 9 of Diamonds coordinate
Robert Preston's birthday maps to the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal Provider). 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 Robert Preston. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back.
Robert Preston in the public record
He reprised the role in the 1962 film adaptation, and received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nomination. Preston made his Broadway debut in The Male Animal in 1952. He won two Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical for The Music Man (1957) and I Do! I Do! (1967) and was Tony-nominated for Mack and Mabel (1975). He co-starred alongside Steve McQueen in the Sam Peckinpah film Junior Bonner (1972). Preston collaborated twice with director Blake Edwards, first in S.O.B. (1981) and again in Victor/Victoria (1982), the latter earning him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Robert Preston (actor) (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 2 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 Robert Preston, and not a forecast of a Tony.
Cards in Robert Preston's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 9♦ — Birth Card: The Universal Provider
- 5♦ — Karma — Environment: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Prosperous Nurturer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- K♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- J♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 6♣ — Life Spread — 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.
Natural partnership and team-building ability
Robert Preston Meservey (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and screen actor, best known for his role as Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man, for which he received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: professor. This line comes from the Venus position of the 9♦'s Life Spread.
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Alexis Smith — 1972 Best Actress in a Musical (Follies)
- Brian Bedford — 1971 Best Actor in a Play (The School for Wives)
- Geoffrey Rush — 2009 Best Actor in a Play (Exit the King)
- Jefferson Mays — 2004 Best Actor in a Play (I Am My Own Wife)
- Joaquina Kalukango — 2022 Best Actress in a Musical (Paradise Square)
- Joshua Henry — 2026 Best Actor in a Musical (Ragtime)
- Katharine Cornell — 1948 Best Actress in a Play (Antony and Cleopatra)
- Mark Rylance — 2008 Best Actor in a Play (Boeing-Boeing); 2011 Best Actor in a Play (Jerusalem)
FAQ
- What is Robert Preston's birth card?
- The 9 of Diamonds. June 8 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 Robert Preston's dates come from?
- Birth date 1918-06-08 is the day-precision date on Robert Preston'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 (Q451811) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Robert Preston (actor)). Birth date 1918-06-08 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).