Editing Lynn Fontanne (section)

===Later years and death===
[[File:Alfred Lunt Lynn Fontanne 1950.JPG|Lunt and Fontanne in 1950|thumb|alt=middle-aged white couple smiling at the camera, she leaning over his shoulder]]
[[File:Ten Chimneys - Main House 1.jpg|"Ten Chimneys", the Lunts' house in [[Genesee Depot, Wisconsin]]|thumb|alt=large country house exterior]]
After the war Fontanne and Lunt returned to the US and resumed their association with the Theatre Guild. They appeared in 1946–47 in [[Terence Rattigan]]'s comedy ''[[Love In Idleness]]'' (given on Broadway under the title ''O Mistress Mine''), and in 1949–50 in ''[[I Know My Love]]'', Berhman's adaptation of ''Auprès de ma blonde'' by [[Marcel Achard]]; these productions ran for 482 and 247 performances respectively.<ref>[https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/o-mistress-mine-1767 "O Mistress Mine"], and [https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/i-know-my-love-2131 "I Know My Love"], Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved 26 August 2021</ref> The Lunts toured the latter throughout the US. They returned to England in 1952 for their third and final Coward premiere, ''[[Quadrille (play)|Quadrille]]'', a romantic comedy set in the 1870s. After a West End run of 329 performances they took the play to Broadway in 1954, where it ran for 159 performances; it could have profitably run for longer, but the Lunts chose to close in March 1955.<ref>Day, p. 564</ref>

Fontanne and Lunt's last Broadway premiere was in [[Howard Lindsay]] and [[Russel Crouse]]'s "melodramatic comedy" ''The Great Sebastians'' in 1956. After a six-month run in New York they toured the piece throughout the US. Their final production was in 1957: ''[[The Visit (play)|The Visit]]'', [[Maurice Valency]]'s adaptation of [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]]'s ''Der Besuch der alten Dame'', in which a rich old woman exacts a terrible revenge on the man who betrayed her fifty years earlier. They toured the play in Britain in 1957–58, initially under the title ''Time and Again'', in a production directed by [[Peter Brook]]. In May 1958 they opened the [[Lunt-Fontanne Theatre]] in New York with the same play (by then renamed ''The Visit'') and toured it in the US.<ref name=ww/> In June 1960, in Brook's production, they opened the new [[Peacock Theatre|Royalty Theatre]], London in June 1960, running until 19 October.<ref>"Theatres", ''The Times'', 19 October 1960, p. 2</ref> After a final week playing the piece at the [[Golders Green Hippodrome]] in November<ref>"Theatres", ''The Times'', 4 November 1960, p. 2</ref> they retired from the stage.<ref name=anb/>

Lunt died on 3 August 1977. Fontanne died in Genesee Depot on 30 July 1983, aged 95, from [[pneumonia]], and was interred next to her husband at [[Forest Home Cemetery]] in [[Milwaukee]], Wisconsin.<ref name=nyt>[https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/31/obituaries/lynn-fontanne-is-dead-at-95-a-star-with-lunt-for-37-years.html "Lynn Fontanne is Dead at 95; A Star with Lunt for 37 Years"], ''The New York Times'', 31 July 1983. Retrieved 17 April 2014.</ref>