"It profits me but little that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquillity of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life."

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Girl Tuesday - Irene Dunne

Great movie star of the 1930s, Irene Dunne was also a well-known Republican and conservative Catholic.  So, on this day of a Republican resurgence that, in my view, will be led in no small measure by conservative suburban Catholics, who better to be our Girl of the Day:


A classy gal.  Here she is in one of her greatest roles, opposite Cary Grant in the great screwball comedy, The Awful Truth:

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