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IRENE DUNNE
With an Irish Cock-eye for Comedy.
(Through our Hollywood Correspondent.)
Real name: Birthdate: Birthplace: Married to:
Irene Dunne
July 14
Louisville, Ky.
Dr. Francis E. Griffin
Irene Dunne, who overnight became one of the screen's finest comediennes in her first Columbia picture, "Theodora Goes Wild" was born in Louisville, Ky., July 14. Both parents were of Irish descent. Her father was Capt. Joseph J. Dunne, a builder and owner of Ohio River steamboats. There on the Ohio River, and later, while living in St. Louis, on the Mississippi, Miss Dunne absorbed much of the atmosphere which was to help her later when she played "Magnolia" in Ziegfeld's "Show Boat" during a 70-week road tour.
Her education began at the exclusive Loretta Academy in Louisville, and later, upon her parents moving north to St. Louis, was continued in a convent. Possessing an excellent singing
Nationality: Height: Weight: Coloring:
American 5 feet 4 inches 1 1 5 pounds brown hair blue-grey eyes.
voice, she was persuaded to attend the famed Chicago College of Music. Miss Dunne was graduated from that institution in 1926, after completing a study of voice, languages, piano and idction.
Upon going to New York, Miss Dunne, determined upon a singing and theatrical career, began by spending one season in the Metropolitan Opera Company chorus. This experience quickly qualified her for the leading roles in "Sweetheart Time," "Irene," "The Clinging Vine" and other musical comedies.
It was during her "Irene" engagement that she first attracted Hollywood's eye. Miss Dunne was invited to take a film test. This proved so successful that she was immediately cast in
Irene Dunne
"Leathernecking," her first picture.
Her youth-to-old-age characterization in "Back Street" was perhaps the dramatic highlight in this group, and in singing in the screen version of "Show Boat" she enjoyed a sentimental, as well as artistic, triumph.
Reading, dancing and golfing comprise her diversions. She is Hollywood's only woman star to make, not one, but two holes-inone on a golf course.
With a cockeye she look? at the wine, but the world looks at Yasmin with a cockeye,
in "Paghban" a General Films picture,
WiH she respond