Sonny Tufts

Biography

Sonny Tufts was a film actor born into a prominent banking family in Boston on July 16, 1911, who broke with his family's business tradition to study opera at Yale. After graduating in 1935, he worked on the Broadway stage and auditioned with the Metropolitan Opera before transitioning to Hollywood in 1942. He achieved fame during World War II for being one of the few handsome male actors not serving overseas, starring in films like "So Proudly We Hail!" in the 1940s.