Cast: Irene Dunne

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Irene Dunne. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Awful Truth

1937 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Cary Grant · Irene Dunne · Ralph Bellamy · Alexander D'Arcy

Plot Jerry and Lucy Warriner lead madcap screwball high society lives in New York City. Despite being very happy, they start to doubt each other's fidelity. Finally they decide to divorce....

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Love Affair

1939 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Irene Dunne · Charles Boyer · Maria Ouspenskaya · Maurice Moscovitch

Plot While in a cruise from Europe to New York to get married with his fiancée and heir of a great fortune in USA, the bachelor sportsman Michel Marnet (Charles Boyer)...

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7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Back Street

1932 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Irene Dunne · John Boles · June Clyde · George Meeker

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

7.3

315 votes

7.3

315 votes

My Favorite Wife

1940 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Garson Kanin

Cast Irene Dunne · Cary Grant · Randolph Scott · Gail Patrick

Plot 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...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

Penny Serenade

1941 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Cary Grant · Irene Dunne · Edgar Buchanan · Ann Doran

Plot While listening to a recording of "Penny Serenade," Julie Gardiner Adams (Irene Dunne) begins reflecting on her past. She recalls her near-impulsive marriage to newspaper reporter Roger Adams (Cary Grant),...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

I Remember Mama

1948 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Irene Dunne · Barbara Bel Geddes · Oskar Homolka · Ellen Corby

Plot 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...

6.6

182 votes

6.6

182 votes

Magnificent Obsession

1935 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Irene Dunne · Robert Taylor · Charles Butterworth · Betty Furness

Plot The life of spoiled Robert Merrick (Robert Taylor) is saved through the use of a hospital's only pulmotor, which results in the death of Dr. Hudson, a selfless, brilliant surgeon...

6.6

317 votes

6.6

317 votes

Symphony of Six Million

1932 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Ricardo Cortez · Irene Dunne · Anna Appel · Gregory Ratoff

Plot A brilliant young doctor (Cortez) grows away from his family and his community in his drive to succeed. When tragedy strikes his family, he sees where his obligations lie, but...

6.6

237 votes

6.6

237 votes

When Tomorrow Comes

1939 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Irene Dunne · Charles Boyer · Barbara O'Neil · Onslow Stevens

Plot Romance and heartbreak walk hand-in-hand when Philip Chagal accidentally meets Helen Lawrence in a restaurant where she is a waitress. Unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness,...

6.5

114 votes

6.5

114 votes

Show Boat

1936 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction James Whale

Cast Irene Dunne · Allan Jones · Charles Winninger · Helen Morgan

Plot With SHOW BOAT, horror maven James Whale (FRANKENSTEIN, THE INVISIBLE MAN) returns to the stage-adaptation genre of his first film (JOURNEY’S END). The second film version of the 1926 Edna...

6.5

187 votes

6.5

187 votes

Cimarron

1931 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Richard Dix · Irene Dunne · Estelle Taylor · William Collier Jr.

Plot The Best Picture of 1931 chronicles one family's experiences in the restless days of settling the American West. Adapted from Edna Ferber's sweeping novel, the story tracks the growth of...

6.5

828 votes

6.5

828 votes

The White Cliffs of Dover

1944 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Irene Dunne · Alan Marshal · Roddy McDowall · Frank Morgan

Plot It tells the story of an American girl who travels abroad to England and falls in love with an English aristocrat. The girl marries the Englishman but their honeymoon is...

6.4

113 votes

6.4

113 votes

Life with Father

1947 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast William Powell · Irene Dunne · Elizabeth Taylor · Edmund Gwenn

Plot 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...

6.4

312 votes

6.4

312 votes

Anna and the King of Siam

1946 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Irene Dunne · Rex Harrison · Linda Darnell · Gale Sondergaard

Plot ad feedbackIn 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...

6.4

549 votes

6.4

549 votes

The Mudlark

1950 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Alec Guinness · Irene Dunne · Andrew Ray · Anthony Steel

Plot A young street urchin (Andrew Ray), half-starved and homeless, finds a locket containing the likeness of Queen Victoria (Irene Dunne). Not recognizing her, he is told that she is the...

6.4

37 votes

6.4

37 votes

Unfinished Business

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Irene Dunne · Robert Montgomery · Preston Foster · Eugene Pallette

Plot 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...

6.4

91 votes

6.4

91 votes

Roberta

1935 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Irene Dunne · Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Randolph Scott

Plot 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,...

6.3

170 votes

6.3

170 votes

A Guy Named Joe

1943 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Spencer Tracy · Irene Dunne · Van Johnson · Ward Bond

Plot 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. Ted Randall...

6.2

199 votes

6.2

199 votes

Theodora Goes Wild

1936 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Richard Boleslawski

Cast Irene Dunne · Melvyn Douglas · Thomas Mitchell · Thurston Hall

Plot 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...

6.2

78 votes

6.2

78 votes

Together Again

1944 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Irene Dunne · Charles Boyer · Charles Coburn · Mona Freeman

Plot Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on...

6.0

34 votes

6.0

34 votes