Deanna Durbin
Deanna Durbin | |
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| Born | Edna Mae Durbin 4 December 1921 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canadae |
| Dee'd | 17 Apryle 2013 (aged 91) Paris, Fraunce |
| Thrift | Actress/Sangster |
| Years active | 1936–1948 |
| Hauf-marrae(s) | Vaughn Paul (1941–1943) Felix Jackson (1945–1949) Charles David (1950–1999) |
| Bairns | 2 |
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.
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 | eedit soorce]| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | eedit soorce]- ↑ 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.
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