1960s Australian Celebrity
Dunne was a popular Australian television and film personality of the 1960s. She starred as "Kay" in the seminal Australian film They're a Weird Mob (1966) and was also a regular on The Beauty and the Beast with Maggie Tabberer.
Her fame within Australia in the 1960s was described by Thomas Keneally as such:
"Clare Dunne, she was a goddess to me. She was this exquisite bone-structured Irish woman who was beloved on the media in Australia."
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