Irene Dunne
Irene Dunne
Irene Dunnewas 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, Theodora Goes Wild, The Awful Truth, Love Affairand I Remember Mama. In 1985, Dunne was given Kennedy Center Honors for her services to the arts...
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth20 December 1898
CityLouisville, KY
address card house mistake next people picture printed took tourists
The picture postcard people printed a card of our house and the address years ago for the tourists but they made a mistake and took the next house.
swearing jane
I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.
things-in-life use swear
I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.
zoos animal normal
There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.
stars taken today
But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.
found
You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy
character always-believe
I always believed in my characters. I lived them
years shopping hounds
Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace
thinking white cliffs
And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films
use said screening
But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined
two people one-day
So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
country spring ocean
I like the fog that creeps over the whole city every night about five, and the warm protective feeling it gives...and lights of San Francisco at night, the fog horn, the bay at dusk and the little flower stands where spring flowers appear before anywhere else in the country...But, most of all, I like the view of the ocean from the Cliff House.
acting
I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is.