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“My private life is quiet.”

Irene Dunne, press http://www.irenedunnesite.com/press/

“Mother, an accomplished musician, taught me to play the piano as a very small girl.”

Hats, Hunches And Happiness (1945)

“One of the choicest occupations here is ripping reputations into pieces.”

How To Get Along In Hollywood (1948)

“The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.”

Hats, Hunches And Happiness (1945)

“Father drove fifty miles each evening behind his spanking team of horses to keep his date with the Southern girl - carefully chaperoned by FOUR maiden aunts.”

Hats, Hunches And Happiness (1945)

“Languages, literature, art, music, history: are all self-evident helps - and even mathematics and sciences, by training memory and demanding the analytical approach, are helpful by indirection.”

If You Want Success (Screenland Interview) (1961)

“It doesn't hurt any of us to remember that Hollywood isn't at all impressed by anyone who has the fantastic illusion that the town must revolve around him.”

How To Get Along In Hollywood (1948)

“I had great cameramen like Rudolph Mate and Hal Mohr. They'd take an hour to light the proper closeup of me.”

A Visit With Irene Dunne (1977)

“If I arrived in Hollywood today, I would keep reminding myself not to try to make a big impression.”

If You Want Success (Screenland Interview) (1961)

“You have no idea how it feels to know that you've cut someone to the quick. I'll never do it again, never, never.”

Preofections - Irene Dunne, by Elizabth Wilson; Silver Screen (November 1936) http://www.irenedunnesite.com/press/silver-screen-november-1936/.

“No education is ever wasted and everything you learn is helpful in acting.”

If You Want Success (Screenland Interview) (1961)

“That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting. Of course WE never had to do nude scenes. I'm glad, too, because I'm susceptible to pneumonia.”

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“It's not possible to forget pictures. Anyone who works in them thinks of them constantly.”

How To Get Along In Hollywood (1948)

“Like many New Englanders - he was a neighbor of Calvin Coolidge's in Northampton - he finds life a serious business. But he's never - well - heavy about it.”

about her husband, Dr. Francis Griffin Revealing The Life Of Irene Dunne, by Adele Whitely Fletcher; The Modern Screen (September 1933) http://www.irenedunnesite.com/press/modern-screen-september-1933/.

“Ever since my United Nations work, for instance, they've been saying that I've gone into politics. The United Nations is a nonpolitical body.”

McCall's, August 1962 http://www.irenedunnesite.com/press/mccall-s-august-1964/

“Ever since the first day I arrived in this town, the general impression has been that I'm like a queen holding court on chosen days.”

How To Get Along In Hollywood (1948)

“Fans hate a hypocrite. I believe they detect the real you behind every role and if they are led to believe you are something you pretend you aren't, they resent it.”

This is Really Irene Dunne, by Sara Hamilton http://www.irenedunnesite.com/press/photoplay-april-1936/; Photoplay (April 1936).

“Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show. To see the great showman sitting in the second row busily writing his telegrams is a thrill no actress can forget.”

Hats, Hunches And Happiness (1945)

“This is an amazing business, creative and mechanical at the same time.”

If You Want Success (Screenland Interview) (1961)

“Music was as natural as breathing in our house.”

Hats, Hunches And Happiness (1945)