Always refused to say her true age. Even her husband was under the delusion that Lynn Fontanne was 5 years younger than he and he died without ever knowing she was actually older!
Appeared by herself in The Man Who Found Himself (1925) and, with husband Alfred Lunt, in Second Youth (1924), The Guardsman (1931) and Stage Door Canteen (1943).
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 287-290. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
In 1970, received a Special Tony Award that was shared with her husband, Alfred Lunt. She also was nominated for Broadway's 1959 Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "The Visit."
She and Alfred Lunt were strongly opposed to the idea of appearing in films, and made only a handful.
She appears on a U.S. 33 cent postage stamp, with Alfred Lunt, which debuted in 1999 in New York City.