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  • Date of Birth: 20 December, 1898
  • Place of Birth: Louisville, Kentucky , United States
  • Biography: Irene Dunne (December 20, 1898 – September 4, 1990) was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s and 1940s. Dunne was nominated fives times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron (1931), Theodora Goes Wild (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), Love Affair (1939)... Read more

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"Goes Wild" had a different connotation in 1936, seven decades before "Girls Gone Wild." In "Theodora Goes Wild," Irene Dunne portrays a meek, small-town woman who wrote a "racy" novel under a pseudonym. ... Full Article

Running from parents and trying to forge new, better familes with very mixed is what seems (in retrospect) the leitmotif of the movies I saw in July (and notably in "Gran Torino" and "Toilers and Wayfarers" earlier this year). ... Full Article

Screwball comedy was the ultimate escapist genre of the Great Depression. A penniless shop girl might benefit from mistaken identity to sleep in the mansion of a millionaire. ... Full Article

Hollywood has had a complicated, love-hate relationship with mothers throughout the years. There's perhaps no better movie mother than family matriarch Martha "Mama" Hanson (Irene Dunne), from 1948's "I Remember Mama ." ... Full Article

When it came to comic timing, Cary Grant thought that no actress could compare with Irene Dunne and when during the making of Talk Of The Town director George Stevens spoke of Jean Arthur as "one of the greatest comediennes ... Full Article

A multi-talented performer, Irene Dunne was trained in opera and displayed her vocal skills in films like "Roberta." She was also a queen of the weepies due to sentimental pictures like "Back Street," "Love Affair" and "Penny Serenade." ... Full Article

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