Irene Dunne

Irene Dunne (December 20, 1898 - September 4, 1990), was born Irene Marie Dunn in Louisville, Kentucky. She was a famous film actress and a star with both a solid and a surprisingly erotic screen presence throughout the 1930s, although she faded in her square and soapy performances in 1940s melodramas. Much disparaged by James Agee and later critics, she is now best remembered for an uncharacteristically mad-cap and hilarious performance in "The Awful Truth", and as Anna Leonowens in the original non-musical film of Anna and the King of Siam. Her career finally ended in 1954 after several unsuccessful films.

Filmography

• Leathernecking (1930)
• Cimarron (1931)
• The Slippery Pearls (1931) (short subject)
• 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)
• Only Yesterday (1933)
• If I Were Free (1933)
• This Man Is Mine (1934)
• Stingaree (1934)
• The Age of Innocence (1934)
• Sweet Adeline (1934)
• Roberta (1935)
• Magnificent Obsession (1935)
• Show Boat (1936)
• Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
• High, Wide, and Handsome (1937)
• The Awful Truth (1937)
• Joy of Living (1938)
• Love Affair (1939)
• Invitation to Happiness (1939)
• When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
• My Favorite Wife (1940)
• Penny Serenade (1941)
• Unfinished Business (1941)
• Lady in a Jam (1942)
• Show Business at War (1943) (short subject)
• A Guy Named Joe (1943)
• The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
• Together Again (1944)
• Over 21 (1945)
• Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
• Life with Father (1947)
• I Remember Mama (1948)
• Never a Dull Moment (1950)
• The Mudlark (1950)
• You Can Change the World (1951) (short subject)
• It Grows on Trees (1952)