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Irene Dunne

from the film Love Affair (1939)
Born Irene Marie Dunn
December 20, 1898(1898-12-20)
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Died September 4, 1990 (aged 91)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Years active Broadway 1920s
Film 1930 - 1952
Television 1962
Spouse(s) Francis Dennis Griffin

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Early life

Born Irene Marie Dunn in Louisville, Kentucky to Joseph Dunn, a steamboat inspector for the United States government, and Adelaide Henry, a concert pianist/music teacher from Newport, Kentucky, Irene Dunne would later write, "No triumph of either my stage or screen career has ever rivalled the excitement of trips down the Mississippi on the river boats with my father. " She was only eleven when her father died in 1909. She saved all of his letters and often remembered and lived by what he told her the night before he died: "Happiness is never an accident. It is the prize we get when we choose wisely from life's great stores. "[1]

After her father's death, she, her mother and younger brother Charles moved to her mother's hometown of Madison, Indiana. Madison is a city in Jefferson County Indiana, United States, along the Ohio River. Dunne's mother taught her to play the piano as a very small girl. According to Dunne, "Music was as natural as breathing in our house. "[1] Nicknamed "Dunnie," she took piano and voice lessons, sang in local churches and high school plays before her graduation in 1916.

She earned a diploma to teach art, but took a chance on a contest and won a prestigious scholarship to the Chicago Musical College. She had hopes of becoming an opera singer, but did not pass an audition with the Metropolitan Opera Company. The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880 is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera.

Career

Dunne turned to musical theater, making her Broadway debut in 1922 in Zelda Sear's The Clinging Vine. Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located [2] The following year, Dunne played a season of light opera in Atlanta, Georgia. Though, in her own words, Dunne created "no great furor," and by 1929 she was playing leading roles in a successful Broadway career, grateful that she was never in the chorus line.

Dunne met her future husband, Francis Griffin, a New York dentist, at a supper dance in New York. Despite differing opinions and battles that raged furiously,[1] Dunne eventually agreed to marry him and leave the theater. They were wed on July 16, 1928. Events 622 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar. 1054 - Three Roman legates fractured relations between the Western and Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Dunne's role as Magnolia Hawks in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat was the result of a chance meeting with showman Florenz Ziegfeld in an elevator the day she returned from her honeymoon. Jerome David Kern ( January 27, 1885 &ndash November 11, 1945) was an American Composer of popular music Oscar Hammerstein II (ˈhæmɚstaɪn (born Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein) ( July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was Show Boat is a musical in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book (based on a novel by Edna Ferber) and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein Florenz Ziegfeld Jr ( March 21, 1869 &ndash July 22, 1932) called Flo Ziegfeld, was an American Broadway Dunne was discovered by Hollywood while starring with the Chicago company of the musical in 1929. She signed a contract with RKO and appeared in her first movie in 1930, Leathernecking, an early musical. She moved to Hollywood with her mother and brother, and maintained a long-distance marriage with her husband in New York until he joined her in California in 1936. That year, she re-created her role as Magnolia in what is considered the classic film version of Show Boat. Show Boat ( 1936) is a film based on the musical by Jerome Kern (music and Oscar Hammerstein II (script and lyrics and

During the 30s and 40s, Dunne blossomed into a popular screen heroine in movies such as Back Street (1932), and Magnificent Obsession (1935). Back Street is a 1932 film made by Universal Pictures, directed by John M Magnificent Obsession is a 1935 Drama film based on a book by Lloyd C The first of several films she made opposite Charles Boyer, Love Affair (1939) was one of her best. Charles Boyer (28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978 was a four-time Academy Award -nominated French Actor who starred in a number of classic Hollywood Love Affair is a 1939 Romantic film starring Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer and Maria Ouspenskaya, and directed by Leo She sang "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" in the 1935 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film version of the musical Roberta. " Smoke Gets in Your Eyes " is a Show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for their 1933 Operetta Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 &ndash June 22, 1987) was an American Academy Award Ginger Rogers ( July 16, 1911 &ndash April 25, 1995) was an Academy Award -winning American film and stage actress Roberta is a musical from 1933 with music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics and book by Otto Harbach. She possessed an exceptional aptitude for comedy. The unique Dunne trademark flair for combining elegance and madcap comedy is seen at its best in such films as Theodora Goes Wild (1936), The Awful Truth (1937) and My Favorite Wife (1940), the latter two opposite Cary Grant. Theodora Goes Wild ( is a comedy film which tells the story of a small town incensed by a risqué novel little knowing that it was written under a Pseudonym by The Awful Truth is a 1937 Romantic comedy (also Screwball comedy) film starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. My Favorite Wife (released in the UK as My Favourite Wife) is a 1940 Screwball comedy starring Irene Dunne Other notable roles include Anna Leonowens in Anna and the King of Siam (1946), Lavinia Day in Life with Father (1947), and Martha Hanson in I Remember Mama (1948). Anna Leonowens ( 6 November, 1831 - 19 January, 1915) was a British travel writer educator and social activist known for teaching Anna and the King of Siam is a 1944 Book by Margaret Landon, a play and a 1956 movie directed by John Cromwell Life with Father is the title of a humorous autobiographical book of stories compiled in 1935 by Clarence Day Jr This article is about the 1944 play and subsequent 1948 feature film In The Mudlark (1950), Dunne was nearly unrecognizable under heavy makeup as Queen Victoria. The Mudlark ( 1950) a film made in England by 20th Century Fox, is a fictionalized account of how Queen Victoria was eventually brought Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901 was from 20 June 1837 the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland She retired from the screen in 1952, after It Grows on Trees, a comedy about a couple who discover that money does grow on trees, at least in their back yard. It Grows on Trees is a 1952 fantasy Comedy film about a couple who discover that two trees they planted in their backyard grow money

Shortly after It Grows on Trees opened, she performed as the opening act on the 1953 March of Dimes showcase in New York City. It Grows on Trees is a 1952 fantasy Comedy film about a couple who discover that two trees they planted in their backyard grow money March of Dimes is the name of a United States health charity, whose mission is to improve the health of babies. While in town, she made her first appearance as the Mystery Guest on What's My Line?. What's My Line? is a weekly panel Game show which was produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS

She continued with television performances on Ford Theatre, General Electric Theater, and the Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, remaining active as an actress until 1962. This article is about a radio and television series For the site of the assassination of U General Electric Theater is an American Anthology series that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is a weekly anthology Television series that was broadcast Friday nights on CBS from 1951 until

Dunne commented in an interview that she had lacked the "terrifying ambition" of some other actresses and said, "I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is. "[3]

Later life

In 1957, Dwight David Eisenhower appointed Dunne one of five alternative U. Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14 1890 – March 28 1969 was President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a five-star general S. delegates to the United Nations in recognition of her charitable works and interest in conservative Catholic and Republican causes. In her retirement, Dunne devoted herself primarily to civic, philanthropic, and Republican political causes. In 1965, Dunne became a board member of Technicolor, the first woman ever elected to the board of directors. Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation

Dunne remained married to Dr. Griffin until his death on October 15, 1965. Events 533 - Byzantine General Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. They lived in Holmby Hills, California in a Southern plantation-style mansion that they designed. Holmby Hills is an affluent neighborhood in western Los Angeles. They had one daughter, Mary Frances (née Anna Mary Bush), who was adopted in 1938 from the New York Foundling Hospital, run by the Sisters of Charity of New York. The Sisters of Charity of New York is a congregation of religious women in the Catholic Church whose primary missions are education and nursing and who are dedicated in particular to the [4] Both Dunne and her husband were ordained Knights of Malta. The Knights Hospitaller (also known as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St

One of her last public appearances was in April 1985, when she attended the dedication of a bust in her honor at St. John's (Roman Catholic) Hospital in Santa Monica, California, for which her foundation, The Irene Dunne Guild, had raised more than $20 million.

Dunne died peacefully at her Holmby Hills home in Los Angeles, California in 1990, and is entombed in the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West The Calvary Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese, located at 4201 Whittier Boulevard in Los Angeles California See also East Los Angeles (region East Los Angeles (often shortened to East L Her personal papers are housed at the University of Southern California. The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly

Awards and nominations

Dunne has been described as the best actress to never win an Academy Award. She received five Best Actress nominations during her career: for Cimarron (1931), Theodora Goes Wild (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), Love Affair (1939) and I Remember Mama (1948). Cimarron ( 1931) is a film directed by Wesley Ruggles and based on the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron. Theodora Goes Wild ( is a comedy film which tells the story of a small town incensed by a risqué novel little knowing that it was written under a Pseudonym by The Awful Truth is a 1937 Romantic comedy (also Screwball comedy) film starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. Love Affair is a 1939 Romantic film starring Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer and Maria Ouspenskaya, and directed by Leo This article is about the 1944 play and subsequent 1948 feature film

In 1985, she was awarded the Kennedy Center Honors, Lifetime Achievement for a career that spanned three decades and a range of musical theater, the silver screen, Broadway, radio and television. The John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (on the building itself called the John F Other honors include the Laetare Medal from Notre Dame University in 1949, the Bellarmine Medal from Bellarmine College in 1965 and Colorado's Women of Achievement in 1968. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6440 Hollywood Blvd. The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a Sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood Los Angeles California, USA, that and displays in the Warner Bros. Museum and Center for Motion Picture Study. Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and [5]

Filmography

Television

References

  1. ^ a b c Hats, Hunches and Happiness, by Irene Dunne, Picturegoer Magazine, February 17, 1945
  2. ^ The Clinging Vine, Internet Broadway Database
  3. ^ Shipman, David, Movie Talk, St Martin's Press, 1988. This article is about a radio and television series For the site of the assassination of U ISBN; p 37
  4. ^ "Irene Dunne Adopts Baby: Actress Formally Becomes Foster-Mother of Girl, 4", The New York Times, 17 March 1938, p. 17
  5. ^ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library, 2000, Gifts of Vanna Bonta

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External links

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