Tony Award Countdown: 30 Years In 30 Days, Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn Honored For Lifetime Achievement, 1994

Welcome to BroadwayWorld's Tony Award Countdown: 30 Years In 30 Days, a look at some of the Tony Awards' most memorable moments from the past three decades.

Unlike Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, there was never a great deal of glamour associated with husband and wife actors Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Whether working together or separately - on stage or in film, television or radio - their spotlight was always fixed on each one's impeccable acting craft and versatility.

Canadian-born Cronyn's thirty-two Broadway appearances, which included a Tony-winning performance as Polonius opposite Richard Burton's Hamlet, began in 1934 when he played a janitor for the four-performance run of HIPPER'S HOLIDAY. Tandy was primarily playing Shakespeare roles on the West End before making the first of her twenty-nine Broadway appearances in the 1930 production of THE MATRIARCH. In 1947 she earned acclaim originating the role of Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.

They married in 1942 and appeared on stage together numerous times, including the original Broadway productions of THE FOURPOSTER and THE GIN GAME, the latter of which won Tandy a Tony for Best Leading Actress in a Play. She won her second Tony for FOXFIRE, a play Cronyn co-authored with Susan Cooper.

In 1994, the first Tony Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy by another great theatre couple, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.

Even with all of their stage and film accomplishments, this 60 Minutes interview is the only proof needed to see what convincing actors they were.

The American Theatre Wing's 70th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Tony Award winner James Corden, will air on the CBS Television Network on Sunday, June 12, 2016 (8:00-11:00 PM, ET/delayed PT) live from the Beacon Theatre in New York City.