Josephine Dunn

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Josephine Dunn (around 1930)

Mary Josephine Dunn (born May 1, 1906 in New York City , New York - † February 3, 1983 in Thousand Oaks , California ) was an American actress in the 1920s and 1930s.

Life

Josephine Dunn grew up in her native New York and attended the local Holy Cross Convent, a Catholic girls' school. At the age of 14 she became a choir girl at the Winter Garden Theater . After the initial success, Dunn dropped out of school and from then on devoted himself exclusively to the theater. Among other things, she appeared at the Ziegfeld Follies and on Broadway .

Her first small film role was Dunn in 1926 in the silent film comedy Fascinating Youth . She graduated from Paramount Pictures School, set up by Paramount Pictures for their young actors without a school leaving certificate. In 1927 Dunn got her first lead role in Love's Greatest Mistake . After another lead role in Fireman, Save My Child , she took a nine-month hiatus and then moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .

Dunn also made films for other studios. In 1928 she played the leading female role alongside Al Jolson in The Singing Fool produced by Warner Brothers , a sequel to the extremely successful The Jazzsinger from 1927, which, however, could not build on the success of its predecessor.

By 1929 Josephine Dunn worked in a total of 23 silent films. This year she was voted one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars . In 1930, in contrast to many other actors from the silent film era, she made a successful transition to talkies. She remained active as an actress until 1938 and then withdrew into private life.

Josephine Dunn has attended the Algonquin Round Table on several occasions . She was married four times: from 1925 to 1928 to the engineer William P. Cameron, from January to October 1931 to the businessman Clyde Greathouse and from 1933 to 1935 to Eugene J. Lewis. Those first three marriages all ended in divorce. The fourth marriage to Carroll Case lasted from 1935 until his death in 1978.

Josephine Dunn lived in Thousand Oaks, where she died of cancer on February 3, 1983 at the age of 76. The actress was buried at her husband's side in a columbarium in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1926: Fascinating Youth
  • 1926: It's the Old Army Game
  • 1926: The Sorrows of Satan
  • 1927: Love's Greatest Mistake
  • 1927: Fireman, Save My Child
  • 1927: Laurel and Hardy: With Love And Hisses (With Love and Hisses)
  • 1927: Swim Girl, Swim
  • 1927: She's a Sheik
  • 1927: Get Your Man
  • 1928: Excess Baggage
  • 1928: The Singing Fool
  • 1929: The Sin Sister
  • 1929: China Bound
  • 1929: Black Magic
  • 1929: Melody Lane
  • 1929: Modern Girls (Our Modern Maidens)
  • 1930: Madonna of the Streets
  • 1932: Murder at Dawn
  • 1932: Forbidden Company
  • 1932: One Hour with You (One Hour with You)
  • 1932: Big City Blues

Web links

Commons : Josephine Dunn  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Slowik: After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934 . Columbia University Press , New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-231-53550-2 , 61.
  2. ^ Bobb Edwards: Josephine Dunn. In: Find a Grave . October 1, 2005, accessed August 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Dunn, Josephine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunn, Mary Josephine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress of the 1920s and 1930s
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1983
Place of death Thousand Oaks , California , United States