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Deanna Durbin
Deanna Durbin news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Deanna Durbin performances. According to Wikipedia: Deanna Durbin was a popular young singer and actress in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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Durbin is perhaps best known for her singing voice—a voice described variously as light but full, sweet, unaffected and artless. With the technical skill and vocal range of a legitimate lyric [[soprano]], she performed everything from popular standards to [[opera]]tic arias. [[Sister Mary Leo|Dame Sister Mary Leo]] in...
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The one and only Deanna Durbin turns 88 years old today, December 4th.I hope Deanna is having a marvelous day, most likely somewhere in France, where she has lived for decades. I wish there were a way to convey to her my appreciation for the joy her films have brought to my life.In honor of the day, I'm posting links to reviews of Deanna Durbin movies. The films are listed in the order I've seen them; each review contains information on the...
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It's almost Christmas, and Nikki Collins (Deanna Durbin) is a LADY ON A TRAIN headed to spend the holidays with her aunt in New York. Nikki is idly gazing out her compartment window at a station stop when what to her wondering eyes should appear...but a murder!This atypical Durbin film casts the actress as a giddy blonde Nancy Drew wannabe, and it's quite a lot of fun. The fast-paced movie combines elements of film noir and wacky screwball...
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In celebration of Deanna Durbin's birthday, tonight's movie was her 1940 film IT'S A DATE.Deanna stars in the film as Pam, the daughter of a great stage actress, Georgia Drake (Kay Francis). Pam is an aspiring actress herself and is thrilled when she is unexpectedly cast in the lead of an important new play...until she discovers that her mother expects to play the part. Mother and daughter are also involved with the same man (Walter Pidgeon...
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Sheldon Mayer's SCRIBBLY the boy cartoonist actually pre-dated National (DC) by appearing in various Dell comics. Here's a strip from a 1937 issue of THE FUNNIES in which OTR fan Scribbly (back when it was brand new !)unwittingly meets young singers Deanna Durbin and Bobby Breen, both of whom were discoveries of comedian Eddie Cantor. Pehaps surprisingly both Durbin and Breen are still alive! One wonders if they ever saw this page.
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