Born 1906 in New York City, American actress Josephine Dunn appeared in almost 20 productions including the Ziegfeld Follies, Between Two Worlds (1934), Take a Chance (1932), Pickwick (1927), Dear Sir (1924), and ending her Broadway run with “Kid Boots.”
Dunn’s first film role was in Fascinating Youth (1926) which was cast with the school’s graduating class. She went on to have the lead roles in Love’s Greatest Mistake (1927) and Fireman, Save My Child (1927).
After nine months of inactivity in film, Dunn signed a long-term contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She starred in 23 silent films, and in 1929 she was one of 13 girls named as “WAMPAS Baby Stars”. In 1930, she starred in Safety in Numbers (1930) alongside Carole Lombard and Kathryn Crawford. She starred in sixteen films through 1932.
Dunn retired from acting in 1938. She died of cancer in 1983, in Thousand Oaks, California, aged 76. Take a look at these beautiful photos to see portraits of young Josephine Dunn in the 1920s and 1930s.
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