Sidney Blackmer's Birth Card: The 2 of Diamonds

In the record

Sidney Alderman Blackmer (July 13, 1895 – October 6, 1973) was an American Broadway and film actor active between 1914 and 1971, usually in major supporting roles. The birth-card coordinate for July 13 is the 2 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1950 Best Actor in a Play (Come Back, Little Sheba) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1950 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play — Come Back, Little Sheba as Doc

The 2 of Diamonds coordinate

Sidney Blackmer's birthday maps to the 2 of Diamonds (The Financial Partner). 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 Sidney Blackmer. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name the exchange out loud and keep it fair for both sides.

Live 2 of Diamonds meaning page

Sidney Blackmer in the public record

Blackmer was born and raised in Salisbury, North Carolina, the son of Clara Deroulhac (née Alderman) and Walter Steele Blackmer. He started in the insurance and financial counseling business but abandoned it. While working as a construction laborer on a new building, he saw a Pearl White serial being filmed and immediately decided to pursue acting as a career. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Blackmer had a role in the highly popular serial The Perils of Pauline (1914), his film debut. In 1929, he returned to motion pictures and went on to appear as a major character actor in more than 120 films. He won the 1950 Tony Award for Best Actor (Drama) for his role in the Broadway play Come Back, Little Sheba, co-starring with Shirley Booth. In film, Blackmer had a role as the conniving Manhattan warlock Roman Castevet in the guise of one of many overly solicitous elderly neighbors of the pregnant titular character (played by Mia Farrow) in the Academy Award-winning 1968 Roman Polanski film, Rosemary's Baby.

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

Where the record meets the 6 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 Sidney Blackmer, and not a forecast of a Tony.

You pass on what you know without disappearing behind the lesson. You have knowledge and a natural urge to share it. You think best when you're helping someone else understand. Your mind is oriented toward wisdom.

Voorman A Notorious Gentleman (1935) as Clayton Bradford The Little Colonel (1935) as Swazey Behind the Green Lights (1935) as Raymond Cortell Great God Gold (1935) as John Hart The Girl Who Came Back (1935) as Bill Rhodes Shadows of the Orient (1935) as King Moss Smart Girl (1935) as Harry Courtland Streamline Express (1935) as Gilbert Landon False Pretenses (1935) as Kenneth Alden The Fire-Trap (1935) as Cedric McIntyre Forced Landing (1935) as Tony Bernardi Heart of the West (1936) as John Trumbull Woman Trap (1936) as Riley Ferguson Florida Special (1936) as Jack Macklyn Early to Bed (1936) as Rex Daniels Missing Girls (1936) as Dan Collins The President's Mystery (1936) as George Sartos House of Secrets (1936) as Tom Starr Girl Overboard (1937) as Alex LeMaire A Doctor's Diary (1937) as Dr. Anson Ludlow John Meade's Woman (1937

Paired on shared wording: behind, orient.

Also on the record

1. Blackmer also appeared in television roles, such as Don't Come Back Alive episode of the 1955 TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and "The Premature Burial" episode of the 1961 TV series Thriller.
2. Blackmer also guest starred twice in the western TV series Bonanza in the episodes "The Dream Riders" (1961) and "The Late Ben Cartwright" (1968).
3. Among his most notable roles was the character of presidential candidate William Lyons Selby in the Outer Limits episode "The Hundred Days of the Dragon".
4. A humanitarian, Blackmer served as the national vice president of the United States Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Alfred Drake — 1954 Best Actor in a Musical (Kismet)
• Matthew Broderick — 1995 Best Actor in a Musical (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)
• Neil Patrick Harris — 2014 Best Actor in a Musical (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
• Santino Fontana — 2019 Best Actor in a Musical (Tootsie)
• Viola Davis — 2010 Best Actress in a Play (Fences)
• Vivien Leigh — 1963 Best Actress in a Musical (Tovarich)

FAQ

What is Sidney Blackmer's birth card?

The 2 of Diamonds. July 13 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 Sidney Blackmer's dates come from?

Birth date 1895-07-13 is the day-precision date on Sidney Blackmer'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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