Philip Dunne
Philip Dunne was a Hollywood screenwriter, film director and producer, who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965. He spent the majority of his career at 20th Century Fox crafting well regarded romantic and historical dramas, usually adapted from another medium. Dunne was a leading Screen Writers Guild organizer and was politically active during the “Hollywood Blacklist” episode of the 1940’s-50’s. He is best known for the films How Green Was My Valley, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Robe and The Agony and the Ecstasy. {|align=”right”
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Philip Ives Dunne was born in New York City, the son of Chicago syndicated columnist Finley Peter Dunne and Margaret Ives Dunne, the daughter of the Chicago Tribune‘s book reviewer and novelist, Mary Ives Abbott.