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
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1947Something 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)
1947I'll Be Yours
(performer: "Granada", "It's Dream Time", "Love's Own Sweet Song Sari Waltz", "Lullaby")
1944Can't Help Singing
(performer: "CAN'T HELP SINGING", "ANY MOMENT NOW", "MORE AND MORE", "CALIFORN-I-AY" / "CAN'T HELP SINGING")
1944Christmas Holiday
(performer: "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year", "Always", "Always Reprise" - uncredited)
1941Nice Girl?
(performer: "Love at Last", "Perhaps", "Beneath the Lights of Home", "Thank You America", "The Old Folks at Home")
1940It's a Date
(performer: "Love is All" 1940, "The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond" ca 1745, "Musetta's Waltz Song" 1896, "Ave Maria Op.52 No.1" 1825, "Loch Lomond")
1940Spring Parade
(performer: "Waltzing in the Clouds", "It's Foolish But It's Fun", "When April Sings", "Blue Danube Dream" - uncredited)
1939First Love
(performer: "Amapola Pretty Little Poppy", "Un bel di One Fine Day", "Home, Sweet, Home", "Spring in My Heart")
1938That Certain Age
(performer: "My Own", "Les Filles de Cadiz" - uncredited, "Aria from 'Romeo et Juliette'" - uncredited)
1938Mad 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)
1937One Hundred Men and a Girl
(performer: "It's Raining Sunbeams" 1937, "A Heart That's Free" 1936 - uncredited, "Alleluja", "Libiamo ne' lieti calici Drinking Song")
1936Three Smart Girls
(performer: "My Heart Is Singing" 1936 - uncredited, "Il bacio" 1860 - uncredited / "Someone to Care for Me" 1936 - uncredited)
1936Every Sunday
(short)
(performer: "Il Bacio" / "Americana")
I couldn't go on forever being Little Miss Fixit who burst into song.
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Trivia:
She was Prime Minister Winston Churchill's favorite movie star. He reportedly insisted that he be permitted to screen her films privately before they were released to the public in Britain, and would often screen her film
One Hundred Men and a Girl to celebrate British victories during World War II. He considered her "a formidable talent."
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