Deanna Durbin Trailers
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Edna Mae Durbin (December 4, 1921 – April 17, 2013), known professionally as Deanna Durbin, was a Canadian-born actress and singer, who moved to the USA with her family in infancy. She appeared in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s. With the technical skill and vocal range of a legitimate lyric soprano, she performed many styles from popular standards to operatic arias. In 1946, Durbin was the second-highest-paid woman in the United States, just behind Bette Davis; her fan club ranked as the world's largest during her active years.
Durbin was a child actress who made her first film appearance with Judy Garland in Every Sunday (1936), and subsequently signed a contract with Universal Studios. She achieved success as the ideal teenaged daughter in films such as Three Smart Girls (1936), One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937), and It Started with Eve (1941). Her work was credited with saving the studio from bankruptcy, and led to Durbin being awarded the Academy Juvenile Award in 1938.
As she matured, Durbin grew dissatisfied with the girl-next-door roles assigned to her and attempted to move into sophisticated non-musical roles with film noir Christmas Holiday (1944) and the whodunit Lady on a Train (1945). These films, produced by frequent collaborator and second husband Felix Jackson, were not as successful; she continued in musical roles until her retirement. Upon her retirement and divorce from Jackson in 1949, Durbin married producer-director Charles Henri David and moved to a farmhouse near Paris. She withdrew from public life, granting only one interview on her career in 1983.
Most Popular Deanna Durbin Trailers
Total trailers found: 34
02 February 1947
A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.
11 April 1944
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.
21 February 1941
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane.
10 November 1939
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school.
26 September 1941
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy.
05 February 2002
The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.
21 July 1947
A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
03 August 1945
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels.
17 June 1944
A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.
25 December 1944
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California.
18 January 1946
A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.
31 July 1940
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
27 September 1940
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller.
22 March 1940
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part.
27 February 1938
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him.
19 February 1943
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
20 December 1936
The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and reunite him with their mother.
28 July 2004
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies.
06 October 1938
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China.
01 September 1948
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
31 December 2009
This is a two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1940s.
21 May 1943
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
21 March 2002
The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, Roger Corman, Deanna Durbin and many more.
21 June 1974
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
02 January 1941
An American Red Cross fund-raising short starring Deanna Durbin.
01 January 2009
A two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s.
05 September 1937
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski to lead them in a concert that leads to a radio contract.
24 February 1982
A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).
24 March 1939
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
26 November 1943
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
10 November 1940
Short film in support of the Red Cross showing civilian volunteers'work, radio and movie personalities at a fund-raising gala and encouraging recruitment.
16 July 1943
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s.
28 November 1936
Edna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every Sunday. Because of lack of audience the city officials want to cancel these concerts.
09 July 1948
A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.
