Lynn Fontanne [SEP] cause of death
how to pronounce her surname, she told the "Literary Digest" she preferred the French way, but "If the French is too difficult for American consumption, both syllables should be equally accented, and the "a" should be more or less broad": "fon-tahn".
Death.
Lynn Fontanne died in 1983, aged 95, from pneumonia, at "Ten Chimneys" in Genesee Depot and was interred next to her husband at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Radio performances
with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon Johnson.
Like Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt is represented in the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Death.
Alfred Lunt died August 3, 1977, nine days before his 85th birthday, in Chicago from cancer. He is buried next to his wife at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee. He was the third person for whom the house lights were dimmed in all Broadway theaters following his death.
Legacy.
Ten Chimneys, Lunt and Fontanne's estate in Genesee