Deanna Durbin
- Interpretación
- 4 de diciembre de 1921 · Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- 20 de abril de 2013
Biografía
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.
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Filmografía
- Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing · (archive footage)
- Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression · En persona
- Marlene Dietrich: Su propia canción · En persona
- Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story · En persona
- Love is All · Singing voice (archive recording)
- Hollywood’s Children · En persona
- Érase una vez en Hollywood · (archive footage) (uncredited)
- For the Love of Mary · Mary Peppertree
- Up in Central Park · Rosie Moore
- El diablillo ya es mujer · Mary Collins
- Seré tuya · Louise Ginglebusher
- Su primera noche · Kim Walker
- La dama del tren · Nikki Collins / Margo Martin
- Can't Help Singing · Caroline Frost
- Luz en el alma · Jackie Lamont / Abigail Martin
- The Shining Future · En persona
- La hermanita del mayordomo · Ann Carter
- Hers to Hold · Penelope ‘Penny’ Craig
- Show-Business at War · En persona
- Mi encantadora esposa · Ruth Kirke Holliday
- Casi un ángel · Anne Terry
- Mujercita · Jane 'Pinky' Dana
- A Friend Indeed · Self / Performer
- Angels of Mercy · Self / Performer
- Spring Parade · Ilonka Tolnay
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards · En persona
- It's a Date · Pamela Drake
- First Love · Constance (Connie) Harding
- Three Smart Girls Grow Up · Penny Craig
- That Certain Age · Alice Fullerton
- Mentirosilla · Gloria Harkinson
- Loca por la música · Patricia Cardwell
- Tres diablillos · Penny Craig
- Every Sunday · Edna