Deanna Durbin (1921 - 2013)

Canadian born, American actress, active in musicals in the 1930s and the 1940s. Winner of the Academy Juvenile Award (a special Oscar) in 1938.

* December 4, 1921 Winnipeg, Canada
 as Edna Mae Durbin
 April, 2013 Neauphle-le-Château, Yvelines, France



Vintage magazines

Mon Film, nr. 52, 23-7 1947
Mon Film, nr. 73, 17-12 1947

Books on Deanna Durbin

Melanie Gall
Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, and the golden age of Hollywood
Guilford, Connecticut, 2022

Books with substantial mentioning of Deanna Durbin

Jeanine Basinger The Star Machine Jeanine Basinger
The Star Machine
2007

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 3. Actors and Actresses
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts Hollywood Songsters James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts
Hollywood Songsters, A Biographical Dictionary
New York & London, 1991

Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan
Movie Characters of Leading Performers of the Sound Era
Chicago and London, 1990

Books with an entry on Deanna Durbin

Kay Weniger Das große Personenlexikon des Films Kay Weniger
Das große Personenlexikon des Films, Zweiter Band, C-F
Berlin, 2001

Danny Peary Cult Movie Stars Danny Peary
Cult Movie Stars
New York, [..], 1991

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor The American movies reference book Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Books with photograph(s) of Deanna Durbin

John Kobal (ed.) Movie-Star Portraits of the Forties John Kobal (ed.)
Movie-Star Portraits of the Forties, 163 Glamor Photos
New York, 1977

Articles on Deanna Durbin

Helmut G. Asper and Jan-Christopher Horak, Three smart guys: How a few penniless German émigrés saved Universal Studios, in: Film History, vol. 11, 1999 pp. 134-153

Films

1936
Three Smart Girls
Every Sunday

1937
One Hundred Men and a Girl

1938
That Certain Age
Mad About Music

1939
First Love
Three Smart Girls Grow Up

1940
Spring Parade
It's a Date

1941
It Started with Eve
Nice Girl?

1943
Hers to Hold
His Butler's Sister
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Show-Business at War

1944
The Road to Victory
Can't Help Singing
Christmas Holiday

1945
Lady on a Train

1946
Because of Him

1947
Something in the Wind
I'll Be Yours

1948
Up in Central Park
For the Love of Mary

1949
Gems of Song

2003
Los Angeles Plays Itself

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