Editing Lynn Fontanne (section)

==Honours==
In September 1964 Lunt and Fontanne were presented with the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] by President [[Lyndon Johnson]] at a [[White House]] ceremony.{{refn|Fellow honorands at the ceremony included [[T. S. Eliot]], [[Walt Disney]], [[John Steinbeck]] and [[Helen Keller]].<ref name=p295>Peters, p. 295</ref>|group=n}} Like Lunt, Fontanne was a member of the [[American Theater Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theaterhalloffame.org/members.html#F|title=Theater Hall of Fame members}}</ref> She received a [[Kennedy Center|Kennedy Center Honor for the Performing Arts]] in 1980.{{refn|Also honoured at that ceremony were [[Leonard Bernstein]], [[Agnes de Mille]], [[Leontyne Price]] and [[James Cagney]].<ref>Peters, p. 321</ref>|group=n}} She received no official British honour, which was a matter of mild regret as she would have liked to be Dame Lynn Fontanne: "They thought I was American. But I was always British. I would have cherished the award".<ref>Peters, p. 317</ref> When she was 90 she received a standing ovation when she attended a performance of ''[[Hello, Dolly! (musical)|Hello, Dolly!]]'' at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rofheart|first1=Martha|title=An Evening With Lynn Fontanne|url=http://www.chorusgypsy.com/stars.html|website=Chorus Gypsy| publisher=Hodes| access-date=29 September 2017}}</ref>
[[File:Wilfrid de Glehn, 1912 - Lynn Fontanne.jpg|thumb|Oil on canvas portrait of Lynn Fontanne by [[Wilfrid de Glehn]] (1912). Housed at the [[National Portrait Gallery (United States)]]]]