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Irene Dunne

1898 - 1990

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Irene Dunne (born Irene Marie Dunn; December 20, 1898 – September 4, 1990) was an American actress who appeared in films during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She is best known for her comedic roles, though she performed in films of other genres. After her father died when she was 14, Dunne's family relocated from Kentucky to Indiana. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Irene Dunne has received more than 2,532,596 page views. Her biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Irene Dunne is the 2,192nd most popular actor (down from 1,987th in 2019), the 3,531st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,304th in 2019) and the 1,011th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Irene Dunnes by language

Over the past year Irene Dunne has had the most page views in the with 290,096 views, followed by Spanish (13,104), and German (11,638). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (337.86%), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (72.40%), and Latin (61.72%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Irene Dunne ranks 2,192 out of 13,578. Before her are Pernell Roberts, Tom Courtenay, Kitten Natividad, James Tien, Alicia Silverstone, and Fan Bingbing. After her are Françoise Arnoul, Tony Goldwyn, Anselmo Duarte, Zubaida Tharwat, Rishi Kapoor, and Demián Bichir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Irene Dunne ranks 120. Before her are Marcel Griaule, Tian Han, Helmut Hasse, Albert Lutuli, Étienne Decroux, and Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz. After her are Benjamin Fondane, Vilhelm Moberg, José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones, Warren Sturgis McCulloch, Lucius D. Clay, and Ben Shahn. Among people deceased in 1990, Irene Dunne ranks 110. Before her are Rashad Khalifa, Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, Wolfgang Schmieder, Martin Ritt, Del Shannon, and Matvey Blanter. After her are Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, Naoto Tajima, Peter Wessel Zapffe, Andrei Kirilenko, Anne Revere, and Grethe Ingmann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Irene Dunne ranks 3,531 out of 20,380. Before her are Louis Farrakhan (1933), Jim Simons (1938), Walter Cronkite (1916), Alicia Silverstone (1976), Steve Lukather (1957), and Alice Walton (1949). After her are Eddie Adams (1933), Varian Fry (1907), Tony Goldwyn (1960), Louis Prima (1910), Jimmy McLane (1930), and Marie Smith Jones (1918).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Irene Dunne ranks 1,011. Before her are Timothée Chalamet (1995), Stephen Baldwin (1966), Aaron Paul (1979), Wayne Knight (1955), Pernell Roberts (1928), and Alicia Silverstone (1976). After her are Tony Goldwyn (1960), Richard Beymer (1938), Paul Gleason (1939), René Auberjonois (1940), Marshall Bell (1942), and Joe Spinell (1936).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Awful Truth
Lucy Warriner
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
Oct 20o 19377.262 / 10
My Favorite Wife
Ellen Wagstaff Arden
Seven years after a shipwreck in which she was presumed dead, Ellen Arden arrives home to find that her husband Nick has just remarried. The overjoyed Nick struggles to break the news to his new bride. But he gets a shock when he hears the whole story: Ellen spent those seven years alone on a desert island with another man.
May 17o 19407 / 10
Penny Serenade
Julie Gardiner Adams
While listening to a recording of Penny Serenade, Julie Gardiner Adams begins reflecting on her past. She recalls her impulsive marriage to newspaper reporter Roger Adams, which begins on a deliriously happy note but turns out to be fraught with tragedy. Other songs remind her of their courtship, their marriage, their desire for a child, and the joys and sorrows they have shared. A flood of memories come back to her as she ponders on their present problems and how they arose.
Apr 24o 19416.6 / 10