Irene Dunne

Irene Dunne

December 20, 1898 · 127 years old

Irene Marie Dunne (December 20, 1898 – September 4, 1990) was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. She was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron (1931), Theodora Goes Wild (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), Love…

Known For

19 titles
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The Awful Truth

The Awful Truth

1937 · 1h 30m · Movie

A married couple files an amicable divorce, but find letting go of each other harder than they originally thought.

7.6
2
My Favorite Wife

My Favorite Wife

1940 · 1h 28m · Movie

Missing for seven years and presumed dead, a woman returns home on the very day that her husband remarries.

7.3
3
Penny Serenade

Penny Serenade

1941 · 1h 59m · Movie

A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unforeseen sadness and unexpected joy.

7.0
4
Love Affair

Love Affair

1939 · 1h 28m · Movie

A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship.

7.3
5
Cimarron

Cimarron

1931 · 2h 3m · Movie

A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.

5.8
6
Life with Father

Life with Father

1947 · 1h 58m · Movie

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

7.1
7
Disneyland Handcrafted

Disneyland Handcrafted

2026 · 1h 19m · Movie

Hundreds of craftspeople brought Walt Disney's impossible dream of Disneyland to life in 1955. Rare archival footage and recordings reveal their untold stories of artistry and determination.

7.5
8
I Remember Mama

I Remember Mama

1948 · 2h 14m · Movie

A young writer recalls her ups and downs of growing up as one of four children to Norwegian immigrant parents in 1910s San Francisco.

7.9
9
Show Boat

Show Boat

1936 · 1h 53m · Movie

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

7.4
10
Roberta

Roberta

1935 · 1h 46m · Movie

An American jazzman and his buddy woo a Russian princess and a fake countess in Paris.

7.0
11
A Guy Named Joe

A Guy Named Joe

1944 · 2h 0m · Movie

A dead World War II bomber pilot, Pete Sandidge becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge's mem...

6.9
12
Anna and the King of Siam

Anna and the King of Siam

1946 · 2h 8m · Movie

In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.

7.0
13
Thirteen Women

Thirteen Women

1932 · 1h 13m · Movie

Ursula plots to murder 12 women with her supernatural powers.

6.2
14
Becoming Cary Grant

Becoming Cary Grant

2017 · 1h 25m · Movie

For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a childhood of poverty to global fame, Cary Grant, the ultimate self-made star, explores his own screen image and what it took to cre...

6.6
15
Back Street

Back Street

1932 · 1h 33m · Movie

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

7.0
16
When Tomorrow Comes

When Tomorrow Comes

1939 · 1h 30m · Movie

A concert pianist unhappily married to a mentally ill woman falls in love with a waitress.

6.7
17
Over 21

Over 21

1945 · 1h 42m · Movie

A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.

6.3
18
High, Wide and Handsome

High, Wide and Handsome

1937 · 1h 50m · Movie

Pennsylvania, 1859. Railroad tycoon Brennan (Alan Hale) is muscling in on oil-drilling farmers, led by Peter Cortland (Randolph Scott). Cortland must try to save their oil business, while also saving his marriage to Sally (Irene D...

6.4
19
Lady in a Jam

Lady in a Jam

1942 · 1h 22m · Movie

A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.

6.2