Word: durbin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...screen for more than a year, onetime Wunderkind Deanna Durbin, now crowding a plump, matronly 28, made a public appearance in Los Angeles last week as the latest in a star-studded line of applicants for divorce...
...most memorable moment was one that few listeners were aware of. In the last act, with Mimi a-dying, Segurola (known mainly to a later generation as Deanna Durbin's teacher) suddenly turned to Caruso and whispered hoarsely that he could not manage his final aria, the "Coat Song." Grated the basso: "I've lost my voice...
...school of humor vulgar and unfunny. Accustomed to treating Stalin & Co. with respect, they never laugh at jokes about U.S. Presidents and Senators. They prefer articles on science, the theater and industry, glimpses of U.S. home life. No. i on Amerika's hit parade: the life of Deanna Durbin...
...Love of Mary (Universal-International) is a plot-heavy little picture with a deceptively simple beginning. Mary (Deanna Durbin), a telephone operator, has just moved from the Supreme Court switchboard to the White House switchboard. This is construed as a promotion. She immediately gets chummy with the President; he gets chummy right back...
...Miss Durbin, prettily as she sings, still seems more like a canary than a woman; and by & large this production, like the musical comedy from which it is derived, is at best merely the least unpleasant way of surviving a class in civics...