Want to know the best Irene Dunne movie? How about the worst Irene Dunne movie? Curious about Irene Dunne’s box office grosses or which Irene Dunne movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Irene Dunne movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place.
Irene Dunne (1898 – 1990) was one of the most popular actresses in Hollywood from the early 1930s through the late 1940s. Dunne earned 5 Best Actress Oscar® nominations. Her IMDb page shows 51 acting credits from 1930-1962. This page will rank Irene Dunne movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition.
Irene Dunne Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Irene Dunne Movies Can Be Ranked 5 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort by Irene Dunne movies by her co-stars
- Sort Irene Dunne movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Irene Dunne movies by yearly domestic box office grosses
- Sort Irene Dunne movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Irene Dunne movie received.
- Sort Irene Dunne movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Irene Dunne Table
1. 16 of Irene Dunne’s movies crossed the magical $100 million mark. That is a percentage of 41.02% of her movies listed. Her top box office hit was White Cliffs of Dover (1943) which barely beat out Life With Father (1947) and A Guy Named Joe (1944).
2. An average Irene Dunne movie grossed $111.30 million in adjusted box office gross.
3. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 32 of Irene Dunne’s movies are rated as good movies…or 82.05% of her movies. Her highest rated movie is 1948’s I Remember Mama.
4. 13 of Irene Dunne’s movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 33.33% of her movies.
5. 4 of Irene Dunne’s movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 10.25% of her movies.
6. An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 60.00. 29 of Irene Dunne’s movies scored higher that average….or 74.35% of her movies. The Awful Truth (1937) got the highest UMR Score while Thirteen Women (1932) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly interesting things about Irene Dunne
1. Irene Dunne was born in Louisville, Kentucky on December 20, 1898.
2. Irene Dunne’s track to Hollywood. After her father died when she was 12, her family moved to Madison, Indiana. In Madison, she started taking music lessons. Her singing ability would take her to New York City. Her ultimate goal was to be part of the Metropolitan Opera Company but that did not work out. She did however start appearing in plays. Her part in the musical Show Boat led to her first movie contract with RKO.
3. Irene Dunne was married one time…to Dr. Francis Griffin from 1928 until his death in 1965…they had one daughter.
4. Irene Dunne was nominated for 5 Best Actress Oscars®. Those 5 movies were 1930’s Cimarron, 1936’s Theodora Goes Wild, 1937’s The Awful Truth, 1939’s Love Affair and 1948’s I Remember Mama.
5. Irene Dunne co-starred with Cary Grant in 3 movies. 1937’s The Awful Truth, 1940’s My Favorite Wife and 1941’s Penny Serenade.
6. The missing Irene Dunne movies that are not included on this page with their critic/audience rating:
- Leathernecking (1930) 70.0%
- Bachelor Apartment (1931) 58.0%
- The Secret of Madama Blanche (1933) 64.0%I
7. Irene Dunne’s Cimarron (1931) won the Best Picture Oscar® but it is ranked as the second-worst of the 92 Best Picture Oscar® winners according to critics and audiences. Only 1929’s The Broadway Melody has a lower critic/audience rating.
8. As I searched and searched for Irene Dunne box office numbers…I found a very impressive Irene Dunne fan site. http://www.irenedunnesite.com/ is loaded with tons more information on Irene Dunne and her movies. This site is highly recommended.
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Was she ever in a movie were money grows on trees ?
Sounds like you are talking about 1952’s It Grows On Trees.
“The Secret of Madame Blanche” (1933) is missing.
Hey Paul….I was unable to find any box office information on The Secret of Madame Blanche…hopefully one day I will unearth those stats and be able to include on this table.
https://boxofficemadness.wordpress.com/2017/07/08/irene-dunne-film-grosses-1931-1950/ This has some box office grosses for some of your missing movies.
Hey Thomas R….. Thanks for this link…I will check it out sometime tomorrow and see if I can add some movies to our Irene Dunne page. Good find!