Walter Slezak's Birth Card: The 3 of Spades

In the record

Walter Slezak (3 May 1902 – 21 April 1983) was an Austrian-born film and stage actor active between 1922 and 1976. The birth-card coordinate for May 3 is the 3 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1955 Best Actor in a Musical (Fanny) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1955 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — Fanny as Panisse

The 3 of Spades coordinate

Walter Slezak's birthday maps to the 3 of Spades (The Sorrowful 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 Walter Slezak. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue.

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Walter Slezak in the public record

He mainly appeared in German films before migrating to the United States in 1930 and performing in numerous Hollywood productions. Slezak typically portrayed wily and loquacious characters, often philosophical, and often with a taste for food, drink, and fine living. He played a crafty villain as a U-boat captain in Alfred Hitchcock's film Lifeboat (1944), a charming, two-timing major domo to a tycoon in Come September (1961), and a wandering gypsy in The Inspector General (1949). He stood out as shrewd, unscrupulous private investigators in film noir, as in Cornered (1945) and Born to Kill (1947). Slezak was born in Vienna, the son of opera tenor Leo Slezak and Elisabeth "Elsa" Wertheim. He studied medicine for a time and later worked as a bank teller. His older sister Margarete Slezak was also an actress. Slezak was talked into taking his first role, in the 1922 Austrian film Sodom und Gomorrah, by his friend and the film's director, Michael Curtiz.

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

Where the record meets the Jack 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 Walter Slezak, and not a forecast of a Tony.

You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works. You bring new ways of thinking about resources and success. You're the one who shifts how people relate to money. You inspire financial breakthroughs.

He worked steadily and appeared in over 100 films including The Princess and the Pirate (1944), The Spanish Main (1945), Sinbad the Sailor (1947), Born to Kill (1947), Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950), People Will Talk (1951), and Call Me Madam (1953).

Paired on shared wording: people, worked.

Also on the record

1. In his youth (while still slim) Slezak was cast as a leading man in silent films.
2. In 1924, he portrayed the title role in Carl Theodor Dreyer's homoerotic drama Michael (1924) after the novel of the same name by Herman Bang.
3. He also acted on the stage for many years, debuting on Broadway in 1931.
4. In the 1930s, he permanently moved to the United States.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Bryan Cranston — 2014 Best Actor in a Play (All the Way); 2019 Best Actor in a Play (Network)
• Cleavon Little — 1970 Best Actor in a Musical (Purlie)
• Donna Murphy — 1994 Best Actress in a Musical (Passion); 1996 Best Actress in a Musical (The King and I)
• Jonathan Pryce — 1991 Best Actor in a Musical (Miss Saigon)
• Melvyn Douglas — 1960 Best Actor in a Play (The Best Man)
• Michael Moriarty — 1974 Best Actor in a Play (Find Your Way Home)
• Nigel Hawthorne — 1991 Best Actor in a Play (Shadowlands)

FAQ

What is Walter Slezak's birth card?

The 3 of Spades. May 3 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 Walter Slezak's dates come from?

Birth date 1902-05-03 is the day-precision date on Walter Slezak'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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