Undaunted, Irene Dunne turned to musical theater. Her dream of becoming an opera singer, however, suffered a setback when her audition with the Metropolitan Opera Company resulted in disappointment. Though she earned a college degree to teach art, her musical desires prompted her to enter and win a contest that netted her a scholarship to the prestigious Chicago Musical College. “Music was as natural as breathing in our house,” Dunne later reflected, and she gained valuable experience by participating in school plays and singing at local churches by the time of her graduation in 1916. The daughter of Adelaide Henry and Joseph John Dunn, Irene learned to play piano as a young girl (her mother was a concert pianist and music teacher), stoking the fires of ambition to becoming a performer.
Dunne was never even considered for an honorary trophy! It’s something to consider the next time you get stoked during Oscar season…and it’s as good a way as any to honor the lady born Irene Marie Dunn in Louisville, KY on this date in 1898. It wasn’t for a lack of trying: she was nominated five times-for Cimarron (1931), Theodora Goes Wild (1936), The Awful Truth (1937-a peerless comic performance), Love Affair (1939), and I Remember Mama (1948)-but putting an Oscar on her fireplace mantle remained an elusive goal.
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Irene Dunne is acknowledged by many classic movie fans to be the greatest actress who never won an Academy Award.
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