Irene Dunne

...western "Cimarron," which begins with the great Oklahoma land rush of 1889. There are two versions of the movie - a 1931 version with Irene Dunne and Richard Dix, and a 1960 version with Glenn Ford and Maria Schell. Both are on video. Q: I...

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...Harvey, Film Comment (New York), January/February 1980. "Hats - Hunches and Happiness" by Irene Dunne Picturegoer, (England) February, 1945. "Irene Dunne: Native Treasure", Close-Ups: The Movie Star Book, DeWitt Bodeen, edited by Danny...

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...so nice. That seemed pretty outrageous for network television back then. Was it difficult to pull off? A: That was a takeoff on an Irene Dunne movie ["I Remember Mama"]. Garry's show was very popular, and we had wonderful writers - Neil...

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...of snappy patter. Russell brings a sardonic intelligence to her role that makes her twice as hot as the baby-faced Blair. </p><p>Irene Dunne was a deft comedian but never quite liberated enough to be a true screwball icon. She’s...

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...genre showcased women who were simultaneously worldly, witty, and wise. Back then, the likes of Jean Arthur, Rosalind Russell, Irene Dunne, and Loretta Young weren't just glamorous; they were often savvier than almost anyone else onscreen,...

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...set, Columbia de-mothballs some of the lesser titles from its vault, like 1936's once-censored Theodora Goes Wild, with Irene Dunne as a proto-Carrie Bradshaw single-girl author, and 1940's Too Many Husbands, with Jean Arthur as a blond beauty...

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...closely identified with the genre, even if only one of the films included is a universally acknowledged screwball classic. Irene Dunne received one of her five Oscar nominations for the uproarious "Theodora Goes Wild" (1936) in which she...

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...her column is unethical. If she's not, it's manipulative. The truth, probably, lies somewhere between the two. We were glad to learn, though, that she likes Irene Dunne screwball comedies; no life containing The Awful Truth can be all bad.

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...illustrates the decline for Hollywood comedies about battles between the sexes, not just in the 62 years since Cary Grant and Irene Dunne had at it in The Awful Truth, but also in the 14 months since the release of Sex and the City: The...

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...revival of the show, in 1932. However, she was not chosen to appear in the 1929 part-talkie film, nor in the 1936 film version. Irene Dunne, who was discovered for Hollywood in the first touring company of Show Boat, would make her film debut...

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