Word: durbin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic rhymes with "love" in the English language (above, dove, glove, shove). But while he can be shamelessly obvious, more often Porter is so dazzlingly dexterous that all the Tin Pan Alleycats bristle with awe. Nobody is cozier with words: for him, Winchell rhymes with provincial, suburban with Deanna Durbin, Nina with schizophrenia. Jehovah with Casanova, Lassie with democrassy, to the bottom I with hippopotami, a fine finnan haddie with my heart belongs to daddy, and Venetia who loved to chat so is still drinkin' in her stinkin' pink palazzo. There are images and characters in Porter that...
Born. To Deanna Durbin, 29, onetime cinema songstress (100 Men and a Girl), and Charles Henry David, 45, U.S.-naturalized French movie director: their first child, her second, his third, a son; in Paris. Name: Peter Henry. Weight...
Married. Deanna Durbin, 29, onetime cinema songbird (100 Men and a Girl); and Charles Henri David, 44, French movie director; she for the third time, he for the second; in Sarreguemines, France...