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President Dwight D. Eisenhower named her an alternate delegate to the U.N. General Assembly in 1959. Dunne had actively campaigned for him in the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections.
Her tombstone mistakenly gives her date of birth as 1901 rather than 1898.
Was offered the role of Aunt Alicia in Vincente Minnelli's Gigi (1958), but she declined, preferring to stay in retirement.
In 1965 she was the first woman elected to Technicolor's board of directors.
Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 145-146. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
During her marriage to Dr. Frank Griffin, Irene adopted a child, Mary Frances. The child was adopted in 1938 and the age of four from the New York Foundling Hospital.
Her only color production was Life with Father (1947) in which she co-starred with William Powell.
After her death, her Holmby Hills home was listed for sale for $6.9 million. One of the realtors was William Bakewell who had acted with Irene in Back Street (1932).
Her grandson married writer Vanna Bonta in her home.
Her adopted daughter Mary Frances was nicknamed Murph.
She has two great-grandchildren from yoga instructor granddaughter Ann Shinnick Streibich.
Smashed the traditional champagne bottle on the bow of the Liberty Ship S.S. Carole Lombard at its launching ceremony.
She has an entry in Jean Tulard's "Dictionnaire du Cinéma/Les Acteurs" published in Paris in 2007 (ISBN: 978-2-221-10895-6), pages 384, 385.
Profiled in "American Classic Screen Interviews" (Scarecrow Press). [2010]
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