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- Alfred Lunt was an American actor, particularly known for his professional partnership with his wife Lynn Fontanne (1887-1983). Lunt was one of Broadway's leading male stars.
Lunt was born in 1892 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father Alfred D. Lunt was active in the lumber business, while his mother Harriet Washburn Briggs was a housewife. Lunt's ancestry in both Maine and Massachusetts dated back to the colonial era. He was a distant descendant of Henry Lunt, an early settler of Newbury, Massachusetts. Lunt's paternal grandmother was Scottish American. Lunt's maternal ancestors lived in New England since colonial times, and including a number of Mayflower arrivals.
Alfred D. Lunt died in 1893. The widowed Harriet married a Finnish-American physician, Dr. Karl Sederholm. The Sederholms eventually settled in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin, a small unincorporated community in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Lunt was raised in Genesse Depot, along with three younger half-siblings, He attended Carroll College in nearby Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Lunt fist gained publicity in 1919, for his starring role in the comedy play "Clarence" by Booth Tarkington (1869-1946). He distinguished himself in a variety of theatrical roles, including in Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" and Chekhov's "The Seagull ". On May 26, 1926, Lunt married actress Lynn Fontane. The two became the preeminent Broadway acting couple. Their successes included a play written specifically for them, the menage a trois-themed "Design for Living" (1932) by Noël Coward.
Lunt started acting in films in the 1920s. His film debut was the silent drama "Backbone" (1923) for Goldwyn Pictures. Subsequent films included the South Sea romance "The Ragged Edge" (1923), the romantic comedy "Second Youth" (1924), the circus-themed comedy "Sally of the Sawdust" (1925), and the comedy film "Lovers in Quarantine" (1925).
Lunt's most successful film effort was the comedy film "The Guardsman" (1931). In the film, A jealous husband creates a second identity in order to woo his wife, and she plays along. Lunt played the role of the husband, and Lynn Fontane the role of the wife. It was a critical success, but not particularly successful at the box office. Lunt was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for this role, but the Award was instead won (in a tie) by Wallace Beery and Fredric March.
Lunt returned to being mostly a theatrical actor. He had a cameo in the World War II film "Stage Door Canteen" (1943), and appeared as himself in the documentary film "Show Business at War" (1943). During the 1940s, Lunt and and Fontane starred in several radio dramas. In the 1950s and the 1960s, they appeared frequently on television.
Lunt officially retired from the stage in 1958, at the age of 66. His last film appearance was the television film "The Magnificent Yankee" (1965), where he played the United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935).
Lunt spend his last years in retirement at his summer home "Ten Chimneys" in in Genesse Depot. He died in August 1977, about a week before his 85th birthday. The cause of death was cancer. Fontane remained in "Ten Chimneys" until her own death in 1983. Ten Chimneys was afterwards converted into a house museum, and a resource center for theater. - Archbishop Makarios is possibly one of the most famous Cypriots. Born in 1913, he became a Greek Orthodox cleric. In 1950, he was voted as Archbishop of Cyprus. During this part of the century, he became involved in the Cypriot movement for "enosis" (i.e., re-union of Cyprus with Greece), called EOKA. Because of their ideals, and his, the British colonists of Cyprus arrested him in 1956 and sent him into detention in Mauritius, on the suspicion of terrorist activities. He later tended to lean on Cypriot independence, rather than enosis. Britain agreed to hold a presidential election in 1959, not long after his return, for which he was a candidate. His main contender was Ioannas Clerides. Makarios won the vote and took office as President of Cyprus in August 1960, when independence was granted. His vice-president was the Turkish Cypriot Fasil Kuçuk. Despite his appointment of a Turkish Cypriot as vice president, tensions between the two groups on the island remained strong. He was commonly nicknamed "Castro of the Meditteranean", because of his ideologies had something in common with the Cuban prime minister, coming to power about the same time as Makarios. When his mandate was due to end in 1965, it was expanded to 1968. Again, he won this late election. In 1974, he was briefly forced out of office when Turkish forces invaded Cyprus, and they placed a Turkish president. After several weeks, Makarios returned. A year later, the Turks created a separate territory in the North, an area now known as the TRNC. In 1977, he held negotiations with Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash to arrange a ceasefire. A few weeks later, on the 3rd August, Makarios died.
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Edmundo Santos was born on 10 January 1902 in Zaragoza, Coahuila, Mexico. He is known for Los millones de Chaflán (1938), An Old Love (1938) and Juan sin miedo (1939). He was married to Alicia Colmenero. He died on 3 August 1977 in Veracruz, Mexico.