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  Irene Dunne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Irene Dunne (December 20, 1898 - September 4, 1990), was born Irene Marie Dunn in Louisville, Kentucky.
She was a famous film actress and a star with both a solid and a surprisingly erotic screen presence throughout the 1930s, being one of the most famous screwball comediennes of her time.
In 1957, after retiring from show business, Dunne was appointed one of five alternate U.S. delegates to the United Nations by Dwight David Eisenhower.
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 Irene Dunne - Forgotten Treasure
Irene Dunne is arguably one of the finest actresses never to have won an Academy Award, not even an honorary one.
Irene Marie Dunne was born December 20, 1898 in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of a boat manufacturer and a concert pianist.
Dunne was appointed by President Eisenhower as one of five alternative delegates to the United Nations in 1957 and later served on the board of directors of Technicolor with actor George Murphy.
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 Irene Dunne
Irene Marie Dunne was born on December 20th 1898 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Irene Dunne was to say in later life that she was a 'reluctant comic'.
Irene Dunne fought against doing the film and, in fact, even went so far as to travel to Europe for two months in the hope that this would get her out of the movie.
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 Denny Jackson's Irene Dunne Page
She was the daughter of Joseph Dunne, who inspected steamships, and Adelaide (Henry) Dunne, a musician who encouraged Irene in the arts.
Irene came to the notice of Hollywood when she performed in a play on the East Coast.
Irene knew when to quit when she was ahead of the game.
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 Honorary Academy Awards Nomination : Irene Dunne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Irene Dunne was a legend in her industry, who seemed to be forgotten.
Irene Dunne had CLASS which was displayed in every movie she made.
Dunne deserve a Honorary Academy Award, she should have gotten one when she was alive, but maybe because she was a Republican, Hollywood ignored her.
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 FGA - Irene Dunne
A multi-talented performer, Irene Dunne was trained in opera and displayed her vocal skills in films like Roberta.
Irene Marie Dunne was born December 20, 1899 in Louisville, Kentucky to steamship inspector Joseph John Dunne and pianist Adelaide Henry.
Dunne solidified her position as the weepie queen with a pair of screen adaptions of Fannie Hurst novels.
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 Irene Dunne
Dunne's diligence won her a scholarship to the Chicago Musical College, but her dreams of a career with New York City's Metropolitan opera faded when she failed the audition.
Dunne was finally permitted to show off her singing talents in Sweet Adeline (1935), and in 1936 Universal Pictures cast her in her stage role as Magnolia in the studio's definitive film version of Show Boat (1936).
Approaching fifty, Dunne retained her classically beautiful features and; in fact, Hollywood makeup artists were compelled to draw lines on her face and fit her with heavy body suits for her "aged" roles in I Remember Mama (1948) and The Mudlark (1950).
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 Irene Dunne at Classic Actresses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Irene Marie Dunne was born on December 20, 1898, in Louisville, Kentucky.
Irene and her mother moved to Indiana to live with her grandparents.
Irene is buried at Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
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 Irene Dunne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Dunne took a breather from heavy drama with the delightful musical ROBERTA (1935) and although the dazzling new team of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers stole the show, Dunne made a lovely impression as the Russian princess turned Parisian dress designer.
Dunne made too few operettas during her film career, and, interestingly enough, she almost invariably lent her voice to Kern's music when she did.
Dunne was nominated for an Oscar as Best Actress five times during her career but never won; luckily, a Kennedy Center Honors celebration rewarded her many triumphs with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1985.
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 Irene Dunne @ Filmbug
Irene Marie Dunne (December 20, 1898 - September 4, 1990) was an American actress.
In 1957, Dunne was appointed as a special United States delegate to the United Nations.
Irene Dunne died on September 4, 1990 and was interred in the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California.
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 Irene Dunne: Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Irene Dunne," by Margie Schultz is the only book out there on Irene Dunne and goes over her life and career.
The Awful Truth" Irene Dunne and Cary Grant are a squabbling couple who separates because of supposed infidelities on both sides.
I Remember Mama" stars Irene Dunne as the matriarch of a Norwegian family that faces hard knocks with grace in 1910 San Francisco.
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 Irene Dunne --  Encyclopædia Britannica
She was known for her leading roles as a gracious and well-bred woman and also well known for her comedic roles.
One of the hottest entertainers of the early 1980s, the multitalented Irene Cara achieved popular and critical acclaim for her performance in the film ‘Fame' (1980) and for her contributions to the soundtrack of the hit film ‘Flashdance' (1983).
Irene Sharaff created stylish and sumptuous fashion designs for some 60 stage productions, 40 motion pictures, and such ballet companies as the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, American Ballet Theatre, and the New York City Ballet.
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 Irene Dunne - Comedienne Extraordinaire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Irene Dunne has got to be one of the most underrated and overlooked stars of the century.
Mired in heavy melodramas and tearjerkers in the early '30s, Irene's comic talents leaped from the screen for the first time in the sublimely silly "Theodora Goes Wild" in 1936.
From that point on, she was widely recognized as one of the screen's finest and funniest comediennes, and her particular brand of subtle hilarity lit up the screen in films like The Awful Truth (1937), the original Love Affair (1939), and My Favorite Wife (1940).
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 The First Lady of Hollywood: Irene Dunne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Irene was one of RKOs leading ladies of the 1930s, including Ginger Rogers and Katharine Hepburn.
Irene also made many radio appearances which included the Lux Radio Theatre program, and you will have the opportunity to listen to some shows in this site if you wish.
Out of the many films she made during this decade, a couple of her memorable films during the 40s were A Guy Named Joe, and The White Cliffs of Dover--films dealing with life during times of war.
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 ClassicFlix - Rent Classic Movies
Leonowens (Irene Dunne) and her son travel to the tiny kingdom of Siam, where she has been hired to tea...
Irene Dunne made her final film appearance in the frothy fantasy It Grows on Trees.
Given the talent involved, The Joy of Living should have been far better than it is. Irene Dunne plays Maggie, a popular musical-comedy star saddled with a possessive, spendthrift family.
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 Irene Dunne News
News about Irene Dunne continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
George Stevens was a rare breed in filmmaking, a director who churned out his finest works toward the end of his career.
Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar Homolka, Philip Dorn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Edgar Bergen, Rudy Vallee, Barbara O'Neil.
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 Irene Dunne at Reel Classics
Irene Dunne: First Lady of Hollywood by Wes D. Gehring (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003).
Irene Dunne: a bio-bibliography by Margie Schultz (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991).
TVNow's monthly Irene Dunne schedule -when her films will be on TV.
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 Irene Dunne - MovieActors.com
In 1928 she got married, and then in 1931 she received her first academy award nomination for “Cimmarron.” Irene Dunne would be nominated 4 more times before retiring in the mid fifties.
Dunne did a lot of charitable work before dying in 1990.
Irene Dunne with Cary Grant in THE AWFUL TRUTH
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 eBay - irene dunne, Movie Memorabilia, VHS items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Irene Dunne, signed on maiden voyage RMS Queen Mary
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne in the Awful Truth canvas
THE MUDLARK - Irene Dunne - Alec Guinness
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 Meredy's Irene Dunne Trivia Mania
To download FREE Irene Dunne wallpaper left click on the thumbnail below and a large image [800 x 600] will load in a separate window.
Right click your mouse on the [800 x 600] image and choose "set as wallpaper" or "save as" and choose a directory in which to place your wallpaper.
Please visit my Irene Dunne tribute site Irene Dunne - Forgotten Treasure.
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 Irene Dunne - Reviews on RateItAll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Irene is so very tallented, too bad she wasn't in anything as she got older.
At first I thought I did not see much of Irene Dunn and then I started going over the movie guide.
I really liked her in Penny Serenade,as the woman looking back on her last decade with Cary Grants character and adopting a child.
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 Irene Dunne Tribute
Irene Dunne had elegant looks that masked her comedic talents and a charming unassuming manner.
The Mudlark: She plays Queen Victoria in a story about her widowhood and the little street urchin who helps to get her out of her mourning and back to her people.
Dunne’s, I could list, but I haven’t seen them yet, myself.
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 The religion of Irene Dunne, actress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
I think Roz Russell is the best example of a practicing believer; her Catholicism is very strong, but she doesn't impose it on others.
Not like Loretta Young and Irene Dunne; those ladies seem to be rehearsing to play the next Virgin Mary.
I think faith is wonderful, but when you try to impose it on others, it's irritating and boring.
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 IRENE DUNNE Autograph
She is pictured with actor Donald Woods, who played songwriter Sid Barnett.
Cary Grant, who starred with actress Irene Dunne (1898-1990) in The Awful Truth (1937) and My Favorite Wife (1940), called her the finest comedienne he had ever worked with.
Dunne, whose first screwball comedy was Theodora Goes Wild (1936), received Best Actress Academy Award nominations for that film and for Cimarron (1930-1931), The Awful Truth (1937), Love Affair (1939) and I Remember Mama (1948).
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 Irene Dunne - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Irene Dunne
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 Irene Dunne DVD movies at Video Universe.
Adapted from Edna Ferber's sweeping novel, the story tracks the growth of an Oklahoma town and the homesteaders who came there from the 1890s through the 1920s.
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, originally teamed in the 1937 comedy "The Awful Truth", are back for more fun.
This time, a wife who has been apart from her husband and kids for seven years (after getting marooned on an island) returns to her home and family -- on the very day her...
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 Starpages: Irene Dunne Web Sites
Meredy's salute to classic actress Irene Dunne in words and images.
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 DigiGuide : Irene Dunne
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 Irene Dunne Romance Classics: Love Affair/Penny Serenade - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter
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 Irene Dune Glamour Gallery - Main Page - Bombshells.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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