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Deanna Durbin

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Deanna Durbin was born Edna Mae Durbin on December 4, 1921, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her British-born parents moved to California while she was still young, and her singing voice soon had talent scouts knocking at her door. She signed a contract with MGM in 1936, at the age of 14, which resulted in her appearance in Every Sunday... See full bio »

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Edna Mae Durbin
in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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2009 Capitalism: A Love Story (documentary) (performer: "The Last Rose Of Summer")
 
2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (video documentary) (performer: "A Friend Indeed" - uncredited)
 
2006 Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (documentary) (performer: "Amapola")
 
1974 That's Entertainment! (documentary) (performer: "Americana" 1936 - uncredited)
 
1948 Up in Central Park (performer: "Pace, pace mio Dio" - uncredited)
 
1947 Something in the Wind (performer: "You Wanna Keep Your Baby Looking Right", "The Turntable Song", "Happy Go Lucky and Free", "It's Only Love", "Something in the Wind", "Miserere" - uncredited)
 
1947 I'll Be Yours (performer: "Granada", "It's Dream Time", "Love's Own Sweet Song Sari Waltz", "Lullaby")
 
1944 Can't Help Singing (performer: "CAN'T HELP SINGING", "ANY MOMENT NOW", "MORE AND MORE", "CALIFORN-I-AY" / "CAN'T HELP SINGING")
 
1944 Christmas Holiday (performer: "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year", "Always", "Always Reprise" - uncredited)
 
1944 The Shining Future (short) (performer: "Begin the Beguine")
 
1943 His Butler's Sister (performer: "None Shall Sleep Nessun Dorma" - uncredited)
 
1943 Hers to Hold (performer: "The Seguidilla", "Begin the Beguine", "Kashmiri Love Song", "Say a Prayer for the Boys Over There")
 
1943 The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (performer: "The Old Refrain" - uncredited, "Mighty Lak' a Rose" - uncredited, "Visi d'Arte" - uncredited)
 
1941 It Started with Eve (performer: "Piano Concerto No. 1" - uncredited)
 
1941 Nice Girl? (performer: "Love at Last", "Perhaps", "Beneath the Lights of Home", "Thank You America", "The Old Folks at Home", "There'll Always Be An England")
 
1940 It's a Date (performer: "Love is All" 1940, "The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond" - uncredited, "Musetta's Waltz from 'La bohème'" 1896 - uncredited, "Ave Maria Op.52 No.1" 1825 - uncredited, "Loch Lomond" - uncredited)
 
1940 Spring Parade (performer: "Waltzing in the Clouds", "It's Foolish But It's Fun", "When April Sings", "Blue Danube Dream" - uncredited)
 
1939 First Love (performer: "Amapola Pretty Little Poppy", "Un bel di One Fine Day", "Home, Sweet, Home", "Spring in My Heart")
 
1938 That Certain Age (performer: "My Own", "Les Filles de Cadiz" - uncredited, "Aria from 'Romeo et Juliette'" - uncredited)
 
1938 Mad About Music (performer: "A Serenade to the Stars", "Chapel Bells", "I Love to Whistle", "Gounod's Ave Maria" - uncredited, "I Love to Whistle Reprise" - uncredited, "A Serenade to the Stars Reprise" - uncredited)
 
1937 One Hundred Men and a Girl (performer: "It's Raining Sunbeams" 1937, "A Heart That's Free" 1936 - uncredited, "Alleluja: from the motet 'Exultate, jubilate' K.165" 1773, "Libiamo ne' lieti calici Drinking Song: from 'La traviata'" 1853)
 
1936 Three Smart Girls (performer: "My Heart Is Singing" 1936 - uncredited, "Il bacio" 1860 - uncredited / "Someone to Care for Me" 1936 - uncredited)
 
1936 Every Sunday (short) (performer: "Il Bacio" / "Americana")
 
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1948 For the Love of Mary
Mary Peppertree
 
1948 Up in Central Park
Rosie Moore
 
1947 Something in the Wind
Mary Collins
 
1947 I'll Be Yours
Louise Ginglebusher
 
1946 Because of Him
Kim Walker
 
1945 Lady on a Train
Nikki Collins/Margo Martin
 
1944 Can't Help Singing
Caroline
 
1944 Christmas Holiday
Jackie Lamont/Abigail Martin
 
1943 His Butler's Sister
Ann Carter
 
1943 Hers to Hold
Penny Craig
 
1943 The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Ruth Kirke Holliday
 
1941 It Started with Eve
Anne Terry
 
1941 Nice Girl?
Jane Dana
 
1940 Spring Parade
Ilonka Tolnay
 
1940 It's a Date
Pamela Drake
 
1939 First Love
Constance Harding
 
1939 Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Penny Craig
 
1938 That Certain Age
Alice Fullerton
 
1938 Mad About Music
Gloria Harkinson
 
1937 One Hundred Men and a Girl
Patricia Cardwell
 
1936 Three Smart Girls
'Penny'
 
1936 Every Sunday (short)
Edna
 
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1944 Road to Victory (short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1944 The Shining Future (short)
Herself
 
1943 Show-Business at War (documentary short)
Herself
 
1939 For Auld Lang Syne (documentary short)
Herself
 
1938 Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 9 (documentary short)
Herself - Oscar Winner
 
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2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (video documentary)
Herself
 
2001 Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
2000 Love Is All (short)
Snowqueen (singing voice) (archive sound)
 
1997 Biography (TV series documentary)
 
1994 Entertaining the Troops (documentary)
Herself
 
1993 Great Performances (TV series)
 
1982 Hollywood's Children (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1974 That's Entertainment! (documentary)
Clip from 'Every Sunday'
 
1954 Christmas Hymns (short)
 
1949 Gems of Song (short)
Vocalist
 
1940 Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (documentary short)
 
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Just as Hollywood pin-up represents sex to dissatisfied erotics, so I represented the ideal daughter millions of fathers and mothers wished they had. - 1959 See more »

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She was sought for the female leads of the original Broadway productions of both Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Oklahoma!" (1943) and Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's "My Fair Lady" (1956). Universal refused to loan her for Oklahoma! and she turned down the lead in My Fair Lady (after Lerner personally came to her home to audition the songs for her) because... See more »

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