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You are so good.. Irene Dunne? Who would beleive it?

She made her last film in 1952 (!) and so has been largely forgotten. But the magic of DVD makes it possible to appreciate anew her beauty, elegance, talent, class and—how do you say silhouette en Anglais? Her lines ?

Irene Dunne was so grand.. This entitles you to one of my many countless and pointless New York stories:
Waiting for a crosstown bus on the corner of 57th Street and 7th Avenue
about six in the evening, an elderly and very handsome couple emerged from an apartment building adjacent to my bus stop. She was wearing a two piece ensemble, colorful print sheer top and a black chiffon skirt that moved
gently in the evening breeze. The man, her admiring companion, was elegant in his formal dinner jacket topped with, can you picture it, a merry velvet cap. They were simply grand.
. I couldn't resist. "You both look stunning", I said. "Where are you off to?"
"Lincoln Center" she said. "They're honoring Fred amd Adele Astaire".
"Well", I said. "You're both just perfect for the ocassion." "We certainly should be", he said. "This is Fred's daughter." She gave me an enormous
smile, threw a kiss,a limousine pulled up, they got in and off they went.
Only thing missing, she should have thrown me a flower.
Can you just plotz?

I never think about Irene Dunne as a major film star, but she was in so many great movies: Showboat and Anne & The King Of Siam, to name just a couple.

I love her famous series of "screwball" comedies with Cary Grant, Theodora Goes Wild (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), My Favorite Wife (1940) and Penny Serenade (1941).

Perhaps because in the first films I saw her in, Anna and the King of Siam and The Mudlark, she played Englishwomen, I was always under the impression that she was indeed English. In fact she came from Louisville, Kentucky, and had an advanced degree in music from Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University.

This is a lovely song... and Irene Dunne is really beautiful here :)

Class.

huh?

Irene Dunne. She had class. Capisce?

Fancy you should talk Italian...

I'm sorry... I was out of it...

Cara mia, io parlo l' italiano meglio che l' inglese. In inglese ho un accentino francese assai stupido, allora che l' italiano lo parlo senza nessun accento.

I'm sure you do Aulic... it must be quite sweet when you speak Italian actually... But surely your accent is less stupid than mine... just saying.

I had an horrible nightmare because of you last night by the way... I should be angry at you...

No one who's ever met me in bed at night has been known to use the word nightmare to describe the experience. You must be mistaking me with someone else...quelqu'un qui te supporte, peut-être.

Ah they don't make films like that any more! Real glamour too not like the rubbish that we get these days. :(

Quite exceptional. But like many of Irene Dunne's many fine films, Roberta too has been largely forgotten.