1. Irene Dunne - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Irene Dunne (December 20, 1898 September 4, 1990), was a five-time Academy Award-nominated American film actress and singer of the 1930s and 1940s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Dunne

Irene Dunne From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Irene Dunne from the film Love Affair Birth name Irene Marie Dunn Born December 20 Louisville, Kentucky U.S. Died September 4 Los Angeles, California U.S. Years active Broadway 1920s Film Television 1962 Spouse(s) Francis Dennis Griffin Irene Dunne December 20 September 4 ), was a five-time Academy Award -nominated American film actress and singer of the 1930s and 1940s. Contents Early life Career Later life Awards and nominations ... edit 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." After her father's death, she, her mother and younger brother Charles moved to her mother's hometown of

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Irene Dunne Irene Marie Dunne was born on December 20th 1898 in Louisville, Kentucky. She trained for a career in singing and went to New York hoping to join the Metropolitan Opera Company. When she was rejected, she joined the Chicago touring company of the musical comedy Irene in 1920. She went on to perform in several roles on Broadway, her big break coming when Florenz Ziegfeld spotted her in an elevator! He was struck by her beauty and cast her as Magnolia Hawks in a touring production of Showboat in 1929 (a role she was later to perform on film). Her performance as Magnolia won her a film contract with RKO and she arrived in Hollywood in 1930, accompanied by her husband Dr Francis Griffin, who she had married in 1928. Unfortunately, her arrival in Hollywood coincided with a decline in the popularity of musicals and her first film, Leathernecking in 1930, was a musical comedy with part of the musical score removed. Her performance in her fifth role, a Western - Cimarron , in 1931 won her an Oscar nomination for her role as the long suffering wife. In the film she aged from a young girl to an old woman and, although she did not win the Oscar, the film brought her great acclaim and enhanced her reputation considerably. A series of dramatic roles followed in the next couple of years. Cimarron, 1931

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Irene Dunne Wikipedia Loikkaa: valikkoon hakuun Irene Dunne elokuvassa Sanovat sit¤ rakkaudeksi (1939) Irene Dunne (oik. Irene Marie Dunn, 20. joulukuuta Louisville Kentucky 4. syyskuuta ... Kalifornia ) oli yhdysvaltalainen n¤yttelij¤t¤r ja laulaja. H¤n oli suosittu etenkin 30- ja 40-luvuilla. H¤nen viimeinen elokuva ilmestyi vuonna 1952, mutta h¤n n¤ytteli aika ajoin televisiossa aina vuoteen 1962 asti. H¤nell¤ on t¤hti Hollywood Walk of Famella osoitteessa 6440 Hollywood Blvd. muokkaa Valikoitu filmographia El¤m¤n s¤vel (Symphony of Six Million, 1932) L¤¤k¤rin omatunto (Magnificent Obsession, 1935) Teatterilaiva (Show Boat, 1936) Theodora leikkii tulella (Theodora Goes Wild, 1936) Kultainen unelma (High, Wide, and Handsome, 1937) Rouvani sulhanen (The Awful Truth, 1937) Ei huolta huomisesta (Joy of Living, 1938) Sanovat sit¤ rakkaudeksi (Love Affair, 1939) Huomisp¤iv¤ on meid¤n (When Tomorrow Comes, 1939) Lempivaimoni (My Favorite Wife, 1940) Muistojen s¤vel (Penny Serenade, 1941) Veikaten vihille (Unfinished Business, 1941) En lenn¤ yksin (A Guy Named Joe, 1943)

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CLICK HERE FOR FREE IRENE DUNNE DOWNLOADS. Irene Dunne, the "First Lady of Hollywood," is arguably one of the finest actresses never to have won an Academy Award, not even an honorary one. She was a great comedienne, equally talented in dramas and musicals and a hit with fans, however her work has often gone unrecognized. Irene Mary Dunn was born December 20, 1898 in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of steamboat inspector, Joseph John Dunn, and Adelaide Antoinette Henry Dunn, an accomplished pianist. Irene had a younger brother, Charles. Her family briefly lived in St. Louis before moving back to her mother's hometown of Madison, Indiana after the death of her father in 1909. They lived next door to her mother's parents at 916 W. Second St. in a house that still stands today. Irene, nicknamed "Dunnie," took voice and piano lessons, sang at local churches and was active in middle and high school plays before graduating in 1916 from Madison High School. In her senior high school yearbook, Dunne lists her activities as "Girls Chorus, Class Play Committee and Senior Commissioner." Beside her nickname "Dunnie," it reads, "Divinely tall and most divinely fair." Her "byword" is listed as: "Oh, that's swell." Her aspirations: "Dramatics." Upon graduation, she earned a scholarship to perfect her singing at the (now defunct) Oliver Willard Pierce Academy of Fine Arts in Indianapolis. After one year, she left for St. Louis, where she earned a teaching certificate from Webster College. She landed a teaching job in Gary, Ind., in 1918 but instead accepted a scholarship to study at the Chicago Musical College. In 1920, she moved to New York City in pursuit of a Broadway musical stage career. (She added the "e" to her last name as a young adult.) She auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera Co. but was turned down. Instead, she landed a job with a traveling theater company.

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