London based American nurse, Susan, Lady Ashwood, is at the hospital awaiting the imminent arrival of injured soldiers. Read More »
Tag Archives: Irene Dunne
Unfinished Business (1941) Gregory La Cava, Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, Preston Foster
Small town girl meets and falls for a playboy type on a train to New York. Read More »
Sweet Adeline (1934) Mervyn LeRoy
The 1929 Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical Sweet Adeline has generally been credited as the vanguard Read More »
Anna and the King of Siam (1946) John Cromwell, Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell
In 1862, young English widow Anna Owens accepts the job of teaching the royal children of Siam. Read More »
Roberta (1935) William A. Seiter, Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. Read More »
Thirteen Women (1932) George Archainbaud, Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond
Thirteen women who were schoolmates send to a swami for their horoscopes. Read More »
Show Boat (1936) James Whale, Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger
Adaptation of the Broadway musical. Magnolia Hawks is the lovely but protected, and thus very naive Read More »
I Remember Mama (1948) George Stevens, Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka
The life of a Norwegian immigrant family in 1910 San Francisco centers around Mama and her detailed, pennywise household budget. Read More »
The Silver Cord (1933) John Cromwell, Irene Dunne, Joel McCrea, Laura Hope Crews
Sidney Howard’s once-controversial play about the smothering aspects of Mother Love, The Silver Cord was filmed in 1933 with Laura Hope Crews recreating her stage role. Read More »
High, Wide and Handsome (1937) Rouben Mamoulian, Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour, Musical, Western
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show Read More »