Trained as an opera singer, Irene Dunne missed out on making it professionally but transferred her talent to musical theater. She was a success on Broadway and, after a successful run in Show Boat, she made her way to Hollywood. She won a nomination for Best Actress in RKO’s epic Cimarron, and quickly proved her worth as a leading lady as she deftly used her high class posture for a mix of drama and comedy.
Dunne’s career would reach new heights with the arrival of screwball comedy in the late 30s, giving great performances in films like The Awful Truth and Theodora Goes Wild. Dunne retired from the big screen in the early 1960s and passed away in 1990.
Irene Dunne’s Pre-Code Filmography
- Leathernecking (1930)
- Cimarron (1931)
- “The Stolen Jools” (1931)
- Bachelor Apartment (1931)
- The Great Lover (1931)
- Consolation Marriage (1931)
- Symphony of Six Million (1932)
- Back Street (1932)
- Thirteen Women (1932)
- No Other Woman (1933)
- The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933)
- The Silver Cord (1933)
- Ann Vickers (1933)
- If I Were Free (1933)
- This Man Is Mine (1934)
- Stingaree (1934)
Studios
Videos of Irene Dunne
The Kennedy Center honored Dunne in 1985:
Dunne pops up in “What’s My Line?”:
Biography of Irene Dunne
First Lady of Hollywood
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