'Ten Chimneys' Is a Well-Acted, Revealing Look at Lunt-Fontanne Home Life
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, the first couple of 20th-century English-speaking theater, were stage-obsessed (they turned down million-dollar movie offers), insisted on always working together, and treated their offstage lives as one big rehearsal, even when in residence at their country retreat. Alfred built that home in a rural area of his native Wisconsin, and kept adding to it until it had eleven chimneys. Befor…