Irene Dunne
Actor
Born December 20, 1898 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Irene Marie Dunne (December 20, 1898 – September 4, 1990) was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. She was nominated five 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), and I Remember Mama (1948). In 1985, she was given Kennedy Center Honors for her services to the arts. She was discovered by Hollywood while starring with the road company of Show Boat in 1929. She signed a contract with RKO and appeared in her first movie, Leathernecking (1930), a film version of the musical Present Arms. Already in her thirties when she made her first film, she would be in competition with younger actresses for roles, and found it advantageous to evade questions that would reveal her age. Her publicists encouraged the belief that she was born in 1901 or 1904, and the former is the date engraved on her tombstone.
Filmography
Disneyland Handcrafted
Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
Becoming Cary Grant
Self (archive footage)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Self (archive footage)
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Self (archive footage)
Musical Comedy Tonight III
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Dr. Gina Kerstas
MGM Parade
Letter to Loretta
Self - Guest Host
The Oscars
Self
General Electric Theater
Margaret Henderson
It Grows on Trees
Polly Baxter
The Jack Benny Program
Irene Dunne
The Mudlark
Queen Victoria
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
Never a Dull Moment
Kay Kingsley
You Can Change The World
Self
What's My Line?
Self
I Remember Mama
Mama
Life with Father
Vinnie Day
Anna and the King of Siam
Anna Owens
Over 21
Paula 'Polly' Wharton
Together Again
Anne Crandall
The White Cliffs of Dover
Susan Dunn
A Guy Named Joe
Dorinda Durston
Twenty Years After
(archive footage)
Show-Business at War
Self
Lady in a Jam
Jane Palmer
Unfinished Business
Nancy Andrews
Penny Serenade
Julie Gardiner
My Favorite Wife
Ellen Wagstaff Arden
When Tomorrow Comes
Helen
Invitation to Happiness
Eleanor Wayne
Love Affair
Terry McKay
Joy of Living
Margaret 'Maggie' Garret
The Awful Truth
Lucy Warriner
High, Wide and Handsome
Sally Watterson
Theodora Goes Wild
Theodora Lynn
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Self
Show Boat
Magnolia Hawkes
Magnificent Obsession
Helen Hudson
Things You Never See on the Screen
Self
Roberta
Stephanie
Sweet Adeline
Adeline 'Addie' Schmidt
The Age of Innocence
Countess Ellen Olenska
Stingaree
Hilda Bouverie
This Man Is Mine
Tony Dunlap
If I Were Free
Sarah Cazenove
Ann Vickers
Ann Vickers
The Silver Cord
Christina Phelps
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Sally
No Other Woman
Anna Stanley
Thirteen Women
Laura Stanhope
Back Street
Ray Schmidt
Symphony of Six Million
Jessica
Consolation Marriage
Mary Brown Porter
The Great Lover
Diana
Bachelor Apartment
Helene Andrews
The Stolen Jools
Irene Dunne
Cimarron
Sabra Cravat
Leathernecking
Delphine Witherspoon