Beautiful lady. They don't make them like this anymore. RIP
Posted on 04/30/2013 7:54:52 PM PDT by EveningStar
Deanna Durbin, who as a plucky child movie star with a sweet soprano voice charmed American audiences during the Depression and saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy before she vanished from public view 64 years ago, has died, a fan club announced on Tuesday. She was 91.
In a newsletter, the Deanna Durbin Society said Ms. Durbin died “a few days ago,” quoting her son, Peter H. David, who thanked her admirers for respecting her privacy. No other details were given.
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One of her biggest fans was Winston Churchill.
What a sweetheart. RIP
I never really cared for the “musical” genre in film that much. But three exceptions to this, which I did tend to enjoy, were the Astaire/Rogers films, the Busby Berkelely films, and the Deanna Durbin films.
Durbin made a lot of films for Universal, and virtually all of them are rather pleasant and amusing. Used to see them on the late-shows quite often in the 1970s. They don’t circulate too much anymore. Mainly because the prime outlet for old films nowadays is Turner Classics, and they don’t have the Universal/Paramount library.
She was one of the last living “stars” of the 1930s. Only a tiny few left now (Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland, Luise Rainer, etc.)
I expected a cold star picture on Wikipedia, not a va-vroom! Reminder of what today’s “talent” is lacking.
“Child”, not cold. Frakkin’ autocorrect.
Beautiful lady. They don't make them like this anymore. RIP
I didn’t know she was still alive(until recently, that is). RIP, Miss Durbin.
How about wholesome? No botox or plastic surgery. Real people.
All Hollywood has now are fake boobs, hairpieces, fake nails, liposuction, facelifts, padded rearends, nose jobs and lousy personalities.
I loved how women stars looked in the 40’s. And the way they were lit and photographed in B&W. Pure glam!
They truly were stars
In high school I once pulled out a bound volume of Life magazines so I could look up the issue covering the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. One issue from November 1941 featured a photo of Deanna Durbin in her underwear playing a violin in the privacy of her bedroom. She was about twenty at the time. Va va voom!
IBSWBM (In Before She Will be Missed!)
RIP.
Wow!
What a beautiful Dame...
She was awfully cute. Loved her.
Amazingly talented and also very very cute and sweet.
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