Josephine Dunn(1906-1983)
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Convent-educated Mary Josephine Dunn got her start in the chorus line
of 'Good Morning, Dearie' at the age of 15. She was briefly in the
Ziegfeld Follies and, in 1924, had a walk-on in 'Dear Sir' on Broadway.
Two years later, she was picked by a talent scout to join the Paramount
acting school for hopeful young debutantes. A ravishing blue-eyed
blonde, she made an impression in
D.W. Griffith's
Le Chagrins de Satan (1926),
Jeunes filles modernes (1929) and
had good reviews in the
Ernst Lubitsch-directed operetta
Une heure près de toi (1932) as
Mademoiselle Martel. She had a rare co-starring role in
Safety in Numbers (1930)
alongside Carole Lombard, but
third-billing was as good as it got for Josephine. By early 1933, she
was reduced to playing vamps and mercenary wives and retired from the
screen five years later, making sporadic appearances in summer stock
during the 1940's.
