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Irene Dunne credits. The following features lists of the film and television performances of actress and singer Irene Dunne (1898–1990), who appeared in 42 movies between 1930 and 1952, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress five times. She is best known for appearing in the screwball comedy films The Awful Truth, Theodora ...
Irene Dunne was born Irene Marie Dunn in Louisville, Kentucky, on December 20, 1898. Her paternal grandfather, of Irish descent, had been a builder of boats on the Ohio River; her father Joseph John Dunn was a supervisory inspector of steamships for the federal government; her mother Adelaide Hunt Dunn was a musician. Dunne was educated at the ...
Sep 5, 1990 · Irene Dunne, one of the top film stars of the 1930s and 1940s and a pioneer in establishing contract rights for Hollywood actors and actresses, died Tuesday at her Holmby Hills home of natural causes.
This is the first full-length biography of Irene Dunne, one of the most versatile actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. A recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors award in 1985, Dunne's acting highlights include five Best Actress Oscar nominations, occurring in almost as many different genres: the Western Cimarron (1931), the two screwball comedies Theodora Goes Wild (1936) and The Awful Truth (1937), the romantic comedy Love Affair (1939), and the populist I Remember Mama (1948).
Sep 4, 1990 · Dunne's talent in the areas of drama, comedy, song and dance made her one of the most multi-facetted performers of the 1930s and '40s and the consistent quality of that work made her much beloved among fans of classic Hollywood cinema.She was born Irene Marie Dunn (the "e" was added later) on Dec. 10, 1898 in Louisville, KY, but spent much of her teenage years in Madison, IN.
Irene Dunne was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on December 20, 1898 to a steamboat inspector named Joseph John Dunn and music teacher Adelaide Henry. She had a brother and together they moved to their grandparents’ home in Madison, Indiana, when her father died in 1909.
Sep 5, 1990 · Miss Dunne's business manager, John Larkin, said she died of heart failure. She had been ill for a year and was bedridden for the last month, said her daughter, Mary Frances Griffin Gage.
