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==Cinema and broadcasting== Fontanne, like her husband, disliked acting for the camera and she made only four films.<ref>Peters, pp. 105β106</ref> She appeared in the [[silent films]] ''[[Second Youth (1924 film)|Second Youth]]'' (1924) and ''The Man Who Found Himself'' (1925). For ''[[The Guardsman]]'' (1931) she and Lunt were both nominated for [[Academy Awards]].<ref>Peters, p. 109</ref> She and Lunt were in ''[[Stage Door Canteen (film)|Stage Door Canteen]]'' (1943) in which they had cameos as themselves. The two starred in four television productions in the 1950s and 1960s with both Lunt and Fontanne winning [[Emmy Award]]s in 1965 for ''[[The Magnificent Yankee (1965 film)|The Magnificent Yankee]]''.<ref name="nyt"/> She narrated a 1960 television production of ''[[Peter Pan (1954 musical)|Peter Pan]]'' starring [[Mary Martin]] and received a second Emmy nomination for playing [[Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)|Grand Duchess Marie]] in the [[Hallmark Hall of Fame]] telecast of ''Anastasia'' in 1967, two of the few productions in which she appeared without her husband. The Lunts also starred in several radio dramas in the 1940s, notably on the Theatre Guild programme. Many of these broadcasts still survive.<ref>{{IMDb name|0285007}}</ref>
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