Deanna Durbin
Deanna Durbin (born Edna Mae Durbin, 4 Dizember 1921 – 17 Apryle 2013)[1][2][3]) wis a Canadian sangster an actress, who appeared in a nummer o muisical films in the 1930s an 1940s singin staundarts as well as operatic arias.
Deanna Durbin | |
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Born | Edna Mae Durbin 4 December 1921 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canadae |
Dee'd | 17 Apryle 2013 Paris, Fraunce | (aged 91)
Thrift | Actress/Sangster |
Years active | 1936–1948 |
Hauf-marrae(s) | Vaughn Paul (1941–1943) Felix Jackson (1945–1949) Charles David (1950–1999) |
Bairns | 2 |
Durbin made her first film appearance in 1936 wi Judy Garland in Every Sunday, an subsequently signed a contract wi Universal Studios. Her success as the ideal teenage dochter in films such as Three Smart Girls (1936) wis creditit wi savin the studio frae bankruptcy.[4] In 1938 Durbin wis awairdit the Academy Juvenile Award.
Later, as she matured, Durbin grew dissatisfeed wi the girl-next-door roles assigned tae her, an attemptit tae portray a mair wummanly an sophisticatit style. The film noir Christmas Holiday (1944) an the whodunit Lady on a Train (1945) wur, housomeivver, no as well receivit as her muisical-comedies an romances haed been.
Durbin athdrew frae Hollywood an retired frae actin an singin in 1949. She marriet film producer-director Charles Henri David in 1950, an the couple muivit tae a fermhoose in the ootskirts o Paris.
Filmografie eedit
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1936 | Every Sunday | Edna | Co-starrin Judy Garland |
1939 | For Auld Lang Syne: No. 4 | Hersel | |
1941 | A Friend Indeed | Hersel | For the American Red Cross |
1943 | Show Business at War | Hersel | |
1944 | Road to Victory | Hersel |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1936 | Three Smart Girls | Penelope "Penny" Craig | Academy Juvenile Award |
1937 | One Hundred Men and a Girl | Patricia "Patsy" Cardwell | |
1938 | Mad About Music | Gloria Harkinson | |
That Certain Age | Alice Fullerton | ||
1939 | Three Smart Girls Grow Up | Penelope "Penny" Craig | |
First Love | Constance "Connie" Harding | ||
1940 | It's a Date | Pamela Drake | A short subject, Gems of Song, wis excerpted frae this featur in 1949. |
Spring Parade | Ilonka Tolnay | ||
1941 | Nice Girl? | Jane "Pinky" Dana | |
It Started with Eve | Anne Terry | ||
1943 | The Amazing Mrs. Holliday | Ruth Kirke Holliday | |
Hers to Hold | Penelope "Penny" Craig | ||
His Butler's Sister | Ann Carter | ||
1944 | Christmas Holiday | Jackie Lamont / Abigail Martin | |
Can't Help Singing | Caroline Frost | Durbin's anly film in Technicolor | |
1945 | Lady on a Train | Nikki Collins / Margo Martin | |
1946 | Because of Him | Kim Walker | |
1947 | I'll Be Yours | Louise Ginglebusher | |
Something in the Wind | Mary Collins | ||
1948 | Up in Central Park | Rosie Moore | |
For the Love of Mary | Mary Peppertree |
References eedit
- ↑ Date of death of Edna David per Social Security Death Index, search.ancestrylibrary.com; accessed April 11, 2018.
- ↑ "DAVID, EDNA A. thru DAVID, EDWARD". sortedbyname.com. Archived frae the original on 11 October 2019. Retrieved 12 Juin 2022.
- ↑ Harmetz, Aljean (1 Mey 2013), "Deanna Durbin, Plucky Movie Star of the Depression Era, Is Dead at 91", The New York Times, The New York Times Company, retrieved 1 Mey 2013
- ↑ Clarke, Gerald (2001). Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-375-50378-1.