Happy Irene Dunne's birthday!
Say, wait a minute, don't anybody leave this room, I've lost my purse!
Pensive Irene Dunne's birthday!
Is Irene the only Kennedy Center honoree to date not to have been present at the ceremony?
"What Helen Hayes and Irene Dunne, I have also did." Bert Lahr dressed as Queen Victoria
Visiting the alternate universe in which Gertie Lawrence continued to refuse to sign her Lady in the Dark contract and Moss Hart made good on his threat to hire Irene Dunne (or so I recall the story), and Irene did The King and I as well because why not.
And as always happy to note that though The King and I purports to be based on Margaret Landon's novel it is most certainly based on the Anna and the King of Siam screenplay.
I’m having thoughts about how best to coexist with Show Boat and Anna and the King of Siam, but they’re still on the inchoate side, thoughtwise.

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