TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Irene Dunne.
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Birthdate: December 20, 1898
Death date: September 4, 1990
Irene Dunne
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
3.8288
29
1940s
3.3446
12
1950s
1.3128
4
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.9718
2.9718
Irene Dunne Movie Rankings
1
3.1479Adaptation of the Broadway musical. Magnolia Hawks is the lovely but protected, and thus very naive, daughter of Cap'n Andy Hawks, the genial proprietor of a show boat that cruises the Missisippi, and his nagging wife, Parthy. ...more about Show Boat
- Not Available on DVD
2
3.0840Before their divorce becomes final, Jerry and Lucy Warriner both do their best to ruin each other's plans for remarriage, Jerry to haughty socialite Molly Lamont, she to oil-rich bumpkin Daniel Leeson. ...more about Awful Truth
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
DVD from $15.66
(13 sellers)
3
3.0158As Julie prepares to leave her husband Roger, she begins to play through a stack of recordings, each of which reminds her of events in their lives together. One of them is the song that was playing when she and Roger first met in a music store. ...more about Penny Serenade
DVD from $1.99
(6 sellers)
4
2.9841
In 1862, young English widow Anna Owens accepts the job of teaching the royal children of Siam. On her arrival in Bangkok, culture clash is immediate. The king respects Anna for standing up to him, though this appalls his courtiers. ...more about Anna and the King of Siam
DVD from $4.86
(10 sellers)
5
2.9740
In late nineteenth century New York a Wall Street broker likes to think his house runs his way, but finds himself constantly bemused at how much of what happens is down to his wife. ...more about Life with Father
DVD from $5.99
(6 sellers)
6
2.9668
French playboy Michel Marnet and American Terry McKay fall in love aboard ship. They arrange to reunite 6 months later, after Michel has had a chance to earn a decent living. ...more about Love Affair
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
DVD from $3.24
(5 sellers)
7
2.9469
Ellen Arden arrives 7 years after being given up for dead in a shipwreck, to find her husband Nick just remarried to Bianca. The overjoyed Nick awkwardly tries to break the news gently to Bianca. ...more about My Favorite Wife
DVD from $12.71
(12 sellers)
8
2.7031
In prohibition-era Manhattan, shopkeeper Mary Brown loses Aubrey, her childhood sweetheart, when he marries a rich woman. Reporter Steve "Rollo" Porter has lost -his- childhood sweetheart, Elaine, who has also married another. ...more about Consolation Marriage
- Not Available on DVD
9
2.6871
The life of a Norwegian immigrant family in 1910 San Francisco centers around Mama and her detailed, pennywise household budget. We follow the Hansens' small joys, sorrows, and aspirations, with the boisterous antics of Uncle Chris as counterpoint. ...more about I Remember Mama
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
DVD from $8.17
(10 sellers)
10
2.6635
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. ...more about Theodora Goes Wild
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
DVD from $17.95
(6 sellers)
13
2.5524
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. ...more about Cimarron
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
DVD from $6.72
(13 sellers)
14
2.5113
Gordon Evers, a dignified middle-aged barrister, is depressed and suicidal following an injury suffered during WWI. Sarah Cazenove, an antique dealer, is likewise depressed and suicidal due to her husband's dishonesty and unfaithfulness. ...more about If I Were Free
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.4900
A sentimental, patriotic (if not propagandistic) Hollywood fantasy about a dead World War II bomber pilot, Maj. Pete Sandidge (Tracy) who becomes guardian angel to another pilot, Capt. ...more about Guy Named Joe
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.4108
A brilliant young doctor grows away from his family and his community in his drive to succeed. ...more about Symphony of Six Million
- Not Available on DVD
17
2.3835
A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son. ...more about Silver Cord
- Not Available on DVD
18
2.3743
Thirteen women who were schoolmates send to a swami for their horoscopes. Little do they realize that Ursula, a half-breed Asian, is using her hypnotic powers over the swami and them to lead them or their families to their deaths. ...more about Thirteen Women
- Not Available on DVD
19
2.3104
In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. ...more about Sweet Adeline
- Not Available on DVD
23
2.1004
As the Great War breaks out, Ann Vickers, a serious, independent and forthright woman, falls for an officer who jilts her before she can tell him she's pregnant. ...more about Ann Vickers
- Not Available on DVD
24
1.9985
In 1875 London, young Wheeler, who lives by scavenging, finds a cameo of Queen Victoria which he thinks so beautiful he risks his life to save it. ...more about Mudlark
- Not Available on DVD
26
1.7807
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant, Stephanie. ...more about Roberta
DVD from $8.68
(14 sellers)
27
1.7520
The Baxters are a typical happy American family trying to live on too little money. Mrs. Polly Baxter acquires two mysterious trees that got into a nursery shipment by mistake. ...more about It Grows on Trees
- Not Available on DVD
28
1.5068
Star-packed promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatarium, produced in association with a cigarette company! Plot involves the investigation of the reported theft of Norma Shearer's jewelry. ...more about Slippery Pearls
DVD from $5.84
(3 sellers)
29
Jean Paurel is a womanizing opera star, who agrees to help Diana Page her career in order to take advantage of her. But instead he finds falling in love with her. ...more about Great Lover
- Not Available on DVD
30
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they find themselves stranded. They're taken in by Mrs. ...more about High
- Not Available on DVD
31
Trainer Pop Hardy thinks his heavyweight boxer 'King' Cole could be champ...some day; he wants to sell a half interest in Cole to his rich friend Wayne. Wayne's daughter Eleanor is disdainful, but brash Cole manages to get under her skin. ...more about Invitation to Happiness
- Not Available on DVD
32
Broadway star Margaret Garrett has spent her whole life working to support her sponging relatives. When she meets carefree Dan Webster, she learns how to have fun for the first time. ...more about Joy of Living
- Not Available on DVD
38
Showgirl Sally meets young playboy Leonard St. John; they fall in love and are secretly married. ...more about Secret of Madame Blanche
- Not Available on DVD
42
Small town girl (Dunne) Meets and falls for a playboy type (Foster) on a train to New York. For him, the fling is over when they arrive, but she continues to carry a torch. ...more about Unfinished Business
- Not Available on DVD
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