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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Yes, that’s another one. Also kid actor Dickie Moore. I think Fay MacKenzie ‘might’ still alive, but I’m not sure. Not certain if Louise Currie or Anne Jeffries credits dip back to pre-1940, but they’re around. Also Herb Jeffries, the singer, made three or four of those low-budget, “all-colored cast” b-westerns.
Seems amazing. Not too many years back, there were slews of 1930s-era actors and actresses still around. Saw and met dozens of them. Even opened a car-door once for Maureen O’Sullivan. Ah, well.
here singing was fantastic....!
so sorry to hear that.. i think she was Canadian
she sang a broadcast thanks to America for all the help in WW2.
Wow, that’s a nifty site. Lots of interesting info. Had no idea Richard Coogan, Danielle Darrieux, or Mike Road were still living. Plus, I thought Audrey Totter had passed away years ago. Glad to know I was wrong. And good to confirm Patricia Morison and Bea Wain are still around. John Calvert, too, who’s 102 this year.
And add Marjorie Lord to our surviving 1930s film vets list. She was leading lady in one of the last Wheeler and Woolsey films (although when I mentioned this to her when I saw her at a book signing, she didn’t seem to want to acknowledge it all that much!).
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