Irene Dunne Articles

Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer in Leo McCarey's Love Affair Leo McCarey on TCM: GOING MY WAY, DUCK SOUP, LOVE AFFAIR, MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW Leo McCarey's Love Affair (1939) is now mostly forgotten, whereas its 1957 remake (also by McCarey), An Affair to Remember, remains a romance classic. In the original, in place of Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr we have Charles Boyer and Irene [...]

The Kennedy Center Honors have been handed out since 1978. Recipients hail from various branches of the American performance art world — including film, stage, music, and dance — even though performers more closely associated with British show business have managed to sneak in every now and then, e.g., Paul McCartney, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Pete Townshend. Since recipients are supposed to attend the Washington, [...]

Vivien Leigh, Hattie McDaniel, Gone with the Wind (top); Greer Garson, Robert Donat, Goodbye Mr. Chips (middle); Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Love Affair (bottom) Turner Classic Movies' homage to the Best Picture Oscar nominees of 1939 continues this evening with three more entries: Victor Fleming's Gone with the Wind, Sam Wood's Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and Leo McCarey's Love Affair. If you haven't watched all three [...]

Paul Leni's The Man Who Laughs, starring Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin (top); Andrew Simpson at the Wurlitzer (bottom) Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Alida Valli, Pierre Brasseur, Angela Lansbury, Conrad Veidt, Sean Connery, John Wayne, Gene Wilder, silent-film stars Mary Philbin and Buster Keaton, and lots of zombies (it's Halloween, after all) are some of the performers featured in the Library of Congress Packard Campus for [...]