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Title: Design for Living : Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne
by Margot Peters
ISBN: 0-375-41117-8
Publisher: Knopf
Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003
Format: Hardcover
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $30.00
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Average Customer Rating: 2.33 (3 reviews)

Customer Reviews

Rating: 2
Summary: Left wanting more
Comment: The biography was not about this famous couple as real people; rather it was a recitation of their newspaper reviews for each production. I have been to their home and taking the tour brought me firmly into their world. Reading this book did not.

Rating: 3
Summary: two extraordinary actors
Comment: DESIGN FOR LIVING is a biography of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, extremely popular husband and wife stage actors in the first half of the 20th century. Author Margot Peters provides, in exhaustive detail, the histories of the Lunts many successful stage productions, mostly by now underremembered writers like Noel Coward and Robert Sherwood. Throughout their careers, the Lunts enjoyed good reviews from New York critics but were often chastised for choosing inferior plays. Even though I enjoyed learning about the Lunts, I didn't really understand what would have led them to make these choices after reading the book.
Peters also comes up a bit short when discussing the Lunts acting technique... (she shouldn't be faulted too much or this though, working from secondary sources). Repeated references are made to how they made everything seem "fresh" and "spontaneous", but we don't know how they really got their teeth in a character.
Peters notes that other biographers of the Lunts have claimed that both Alfred and Lynn engaged in gay relationships without providing any evidence. Peters also provides no evidence, but also provides no evidence that the Lunts had any intimate life with each other. After reading DESIGN FOR LIVING, I came away feeling that I knew the Lunts well as actors but very little as people. Probably how they would have wanted it.

Rating: 2
Summary: Query
Comment: I reviewed this book 2-3 weeks ago when it first came out. Why hasn't my review been posted?

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