Irene Dunne
Gender: Female
Born: 20th December 1898
Died: 4th September 1990
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Movies: Anna and the King of Siam, Cimarron, I Remember Mama, Love Affair, Magnificent Obsession, My Favourite Wife, Penny Serenade, The Awful Truth, Theodora Goes Wild, High, Wide, and Handsome, The Mudlark, The White Cliffs of Dover, Thirteen Women, Back Street, It Grows on Trees, Roberta, A Guy Named Joe, Show Boat, Over 21, Never a Dull Moment, Life with father, Ann Vickers, Stingaree, Bachelor Apartment, When Tomorrow Comes, Together Again, Joy of Living, The Secret of Madame Blanche, Unfinished Business, Lady in a Jam, If I Were Free, Sweet Adeline, The Silver Cord, Symphony of Six Million, The Age of Innocence, No Other Woman, This Man Is Mine, The Great Lover, Invitation to Happiness, The Stolen Jools
Irene Dunne (December 20, 1898 – September 4, 1990) was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. Dunne 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). She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1958.
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 Dunn 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."
After her father's death, she, her mother and younger brother Charles moved to her mother's hometown of Madison, Indiana. Dunn's mother taught her to play
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