Political humor, satire not on purpose Aug 1, 2008
Romantic comedies were once the province of William Powell and Myrna Loy, Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, Spenser Tracy and Katherine Hepburn adults who talked smart in a way that put a smile on your face. You grew up wanting to be like those people. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Sleepless In Seattle Apr 18, 2008
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. Farah Farouque, reviewerApril 17, 2008. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Popping the question Feb 11, 2008
This was in 1958 with all those romantic movies and wholesome endings with Ronald Coleman, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Claudette Colbert and Katherine Hepburn. We were married 36-1/2 years before Richie died. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Washington Post Film Critic Jan 21, 2008
We saw many great films there and one of the best evenings ever was when Irene Dunne appeared in person for an interview following one of her movies. I still remember her explanation of why Cary Grant was her favorite leading man: "Don't tell Cary I told you," she said, "but he always said I was the sweetest smelling actress he ever worked with.". (Washington Post)
* [ HARDCOVER: US ] The Hollywood stars who didn't quite shoot all the way Nov 4, 2007
Basinger lavishes fond attention on several actors, like Errol Flynn, Lana Turner, Tyrone Power, Irene Dunne and Jean Arthur, included because their careers illustrate the shortcomings of the star machine, or the ways in which a wily actor could game the system ... The book is filled with happy observations like these, although I'm still not sure what it means to say that "Irene Dunne is Doris Day before Doris Day was Doris Day.". (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The week's best films Oct 27, 2007
In less skilled hands than George Stevens', and with smaller talents than Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, this might have been a horribly sentimental affair, but instead it's a glorious drama, a weepie that actually makes you weep. Grant and Dunne are a married couple dealing with the death of a baby. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
'English Rose' showed grit in film roles Oct 22, 2007
Refusing to be entirely defined by red hair, porcelain looks and stage-trained diction, Kerr simply would not settle for being Our Lady of Manners, heiress to the mantle of Helen Hayes, Greer Garson and Irene Dunne. Like all enduring stars, she played true to self by finding risks and tangents. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Winchester Native Among Indiana Performing Arts Hall of Fame Inaugural Inductees Oct 19, 2007
His fellow inductees include playwright Booth Tarkington, actors Scatman Crothers, James Dean and Steve McQueen; actresses Irene Dunne, Carole Lombard and Marjorie Main; comedian Red Skelton, lyricist Noble Sissle, composers Hoagy Carmichael and Cole Porter and jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. e are very proud of the accomplishments of Robert Wise, said Winchester Mayor Steve Croyle, nd pleased that he will be one of the individuals to be inducted in the first class of the Indiana Performing Arts... (Winchester News-Gazette, IN)
Turner Classic Movies to Honor Six-Time Oscar(R) Nominee Deborah Kerr Oct 19, 2007
In many ways, she filled the void Irene Dunne would soon create by leaving films. Gracious, ladylike and smart, Kerr would in fact recreate two Dunne roles: the proper Englishwoman who becomes governess to a potentate's brood in the musicalized version of Anna and the King of Siam, The King and I (1956), with her singing dubbed by Marni Nixon, and the heroine prevented from making a crucial rendezvous with her lover in An Affair to Remember (1957), based on Dunne's Love Affair. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Columbia films missing from the vaults Sep 7, 2007
"Theodora Goes Wild" (1936): Everything with Irene Dunne should be on DVD, including this howler from a Mary McCarthy story about the author of a sexy bestseller who is really a small-town girl. That may be a stretch, since Dunne is a goddess, but the fact that someone like (gulp) Norma Shearer may be better known today is a crime. (Variety)
Summer Events Chicago Illinois Jul 8, 2007
August 7: The Awful Truth stars Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, 1937. August 14, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid stars Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Katherine Ross. (Suite101.com)
The last picture show Jun 6, 2007
On the bill: 1938 s Joy of Living starring Irene Dunne and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a Donald Duck cartoon, and a newsreel. Today, there are close to 400 drive-in theaters in the U.S. according to Paul Geissinger, president of the United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association. (San Antonio Current, TX)
Fresnan danced her way to screen legacy May 12, 2007
It was she who rode horses for fun and on film, working on sets with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Roy Rogers, Irene Dunne, Abbott llo, Fred MacMurray and Charlie Ruggles. You may not have realized it was Mrs. Leonard because she wasn't the star in her films, although you would have thought otherwise by looking at her. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Six lost films to be seen on TV Apr 4, 2007
Rounding out the six is the offbeat 1934 musical adventure "Stingaree." Directed by William Wellman, the film reunites "Cimarron" stars Irene Dunne and Richard Dix in a tale of a dashing Australian bandit and a maid who aspires to become an opera singer. "To be able to have a William Powell we have never seen before and an Irene Dunne and a Ginger Rogers ... " says TCM host and film historian Robert Osborne. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Awkward customer Mar 30, 2007
She was very striking in both, very Viennese in her training and diction, and she was Acting with a capital A. In those days, apparently, that was enough to let voters forget the more professional virtues of Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey, Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth, Barbara Stanwyck in Stella Dallas or even Garbo in Camille. Those four still break your heart; Rainer looks like a porcelain figurine. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Astronaut Farmer Feb 25, 2007
Irene Dunne stars in this gentle story of a Norwegian immigrant familys struggles while living in San Francisco at the turn of the century ... Unable to have children, a young couple (Cary Grant, Irene Dunne) adopts a baby. (Gospelcom.net)
HOW THEY REVIVED LOST RKO CLASSICS Feb 22, 2007
The final title is "Stingaree" (1933), a lavish musical set in 1847 Australia starring Irene Dunne and Richard Dix as an opera singer and a bandit. "Stingaree" was directed by William A. Wellman. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Vanished! Viewers steam as shows evaporate Jan 14, 2007
She says it starred Irene Dunne and Cary Grant ... The 1939 version of Love Affair starred Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
