Trivia

On the Special Collectors Edition DVD of Forrest Gump (1994), producer Wendy Finerman says in her Commentary: "Nora Dunfee was a wonderful actress whom Ellen Lewis found for us in New York. She was a very famous acting teacher, and she was just spectacular."

She was a master teacher of speech at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she taught for 28 years.

Dunfee studied Speech and Dialects with Margaret Prendergast McLean, famed teacher of Charles Laughton and other Hollywood luminaries. McLean herself had been the student of Prof. William Tilly of Columbia University, and Tilly had been the prize pupil of Henry Sweet, George Bernard Shaw's model for the character of Prof. Henry Higgins. While assisting McLean in her classes at the legendary Actor's Lab in Hollywood in the '40s, Dunfee met and married actor David Clarke.

Nora Dunfee and her husband David Clarke had two daughters, Katharine Dunfee Clarke, now known as K.C. Ligon, and Susan Dunfee, now known as Susan Bennett.

The Grass Harp (1995) is dedicated to the memory of Nora Dunfee.

On the last day of shooting of The Grass Harp (1995) before a Christmas hiatus, actor and photographer Roddy McDowall took a number of still pictures of Nora Dunfee on the set of the wedding scene. At the request of her daughter K.C. Ligon, McDowall generously contributed a large print of one of his photographs of Dunfee in her costume for her role as Mrs. Peters (which he signed in silver ink), for her Memorial at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, on January 17, 1995.

Dialogue coach/actress.