Movies
Philip Dunne arrived in Hollywood in 1930, the depth of the Depression--not the best season for job hunting.
May 3, 1992
World & Nation
Amanda Duff Dunne, a former actress and the widow of distinguished screenwriter and film director Philip Dunne, whose bluff-top house in Malibu was a social and political gathering spot for the elite of Hollywood for many years, has died.
April 21, 2006
Philip Dunne, a distinguished screenwriter and film director whose accomplishments were tested in the crucible of Cold War politics, has died of cancer, it was reported Wednesday.
June 4, 1992
Philip Dunne became the first screenwriter ever to receive a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame on Friday.
Oct. 26, 1987
Art director Edward Carfagno and writer-producr-director Philip Dunne will be the first two subjects to be interviewed for a new oral history project by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Oct. 10, 1989
Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winner of five--it won best picture in a year when the competition included “Citizen Kane” and “The Maltese Falcon”--this tale of a young boy’s coming of age in a Welsh mining town was director John Ford’s personal favorite and one of the most deservedly beloved of all American films.
March 24, 1991
James Pepper’s small, adventurous Santa Teresa Press in Santa Barbara, which in 1987 produced a handsome edition of Orson Welles’ unproduced original script, “The Big Brass Ring,” has now brought out a commemorative edition of Philip Dunne’s script for “How Green Was My Valley.”
April 2, 1991
Music
Lloyd W.
March 12, 1991
California
John Philip Nichols, chief financial adviser to the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, has been sentenced to four years in state prison for soliciting the contract murders of two Coachella Valley residents.
May 31, 1985
. . . Army Archerd, we beg to differ.
Aug. 9, 1987