Stephanie Nolasco covers entertainment at Foxnews.com. It may have been a shock to Deannas Fans that she left her Career so young never to return, but she wasnt in a boat by herself. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. According to the New York Times, Durbin did shed some insight on her departure from Hollywood in a 1958 letter. She could have probably gone to MGM or another studio because she was still at the height of her acting abilities and her voice at her best. I don't think Deanna Durbin will ever lose her fan base, every year more people "discover" her and her delightful personality. The play should be subtitled Show Biz History 101. 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While often re-creating her movie songs for commercial release, Durbin also covered independent standards, like "Kiss Me Again", "My Hero", "Annie Laurie", "Poor Butterfly", "Love's Old Sweet Song" and "God Bless America". 01:04. Universal cast Durbin in a film called Three Smart Girls (1936), about a trio of plucky sisters determined to reunite their estranged parents. Durbin's son, Peter H. David, was quoted in the "Deanna Durbin Society" newsletter saying his mother had passed away several days ago, but he did not provide any other details about her death. She didnt make great demands. In the late 1930s and 1940s, Deanna and Judy, just teenagers, were two of the biggest stars in Hollywood. Deanna fled the bright lights and cameras at age 29, stunning the world, moved to a farm house in France, became a recluse and never appeared in another film. She just wanted more say in her own films, but she couldnt. Harper hopes his book will celebrate Durbins films in Hollywood, as well as introduce her to movie buffs discovering her work for the first time. Thelate Mr Shipman wrote one of my favourite books, THE GREAT FILM STARS; THE GOLDEN YEARS. Bruce Chadwick lectures on history and film at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She had one older sister, Edith (later Mrs. Heckman, born in England, died in California). You just can't, no matter how hard you try! Whenever I complained or asked for story or director approval, the studio refused. That role, of course, would have made her famous all over again, an international superstar, a brilliant comet racing across the show business sky. I really hope people will discover Deanna again and watch her movies, he said. I loved thembut I had my ticket to Paris in my pocket and anyway, Julie Andrews was great and so was Audrey Hepburn in the film.. (from, "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen" (from, "Sari Waltz (Love's Own Sweet Song)" (from, "Say a Pray'r for the Boys Over There" (from, "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year" (from, "You Wanna Keep Your Baby Looking Nice, Don't You" (from, This page was last edited on 23 November 2022, at 07:43. The way he lives, it never crosses his mind to try to make himself happy or to make others happy. There were Deanna Durbin dolls and dresses. When a teenage Deanna Durbin appeared on screen in the 1930s, wearing a decorous white dress with her hands clasped together, singing with a bell-like purity, audiences sighed contentedly. Deanna was not only a superb actress, but as a singer had the voice of an angel. Universal announced Durbin was to star in They Lived Alone, scheduled to be directed by Koster. But one can speculate that she was eager to start a new chapter in her life. There were Deanna Durbin dolls and dresses. She withdrew from public life, granting only one interview on her career in 1983. Upon her retirement and divorce from Jackson in 1949, Durbin married producer-director Charles Henri David and moved to a farmhouse near Paris. Why did I give up my career? Unlike Judy Garland, she seemed to be very mature in the films that she made, even as a young teenager. Its box-office success is generally held to have been responsible for saving the studio from bankruptcy. Visiting a Deanna Durbin fan site,( Deannadurbindevotees.com),I was fascinated to read an interview author David Shipman did with Deanna in 1983 at her home in France. Neighbors? You get a wonderful education in how the old movie studio system worked, how child actors were educated at special studio schools how stars had homes built for them right on the film sets. Her second marriage, to film writer-producer-actor Felix Jackson in 1945, produced a daughter, Jessica Louise Jackson, but a divorce followed in 1949. [8], The success of Durbin's films was reported to have saved Universal from bankruptcy. That union lasted until Davids death in 1991 at 92. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Former child star Deanna Durbin has died at the age of 91, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Deanna Durbin was one of the famous children of Hollywood of that era.She starred in 20 films. Her first feature-length film, Three Smart Girls (1936), was a success and established Durbin as a young star. Los Angeles Times 6 Jan 1948: A1. Even when cameras stopped rolling, Durbin couldnt escape her good-girl image. She stated that the studio pushed a "childlike image" on her, but I'm not so sure about that. [3] At the age of one, Edna Mae was singing children's songs. INTERVIEW: DEANNA DURBIN - 1983. She could have probably gone to MGM or another studio because she was still at the height of her acting abilities and her voice at her best. ", Lehrer said that Vice President Hubert Humphrey had been relegated to "those where-are-they-now columns: Whatever became of Deanna Durbin, and Hubert Humphrey, and so on." But she will never go back to that life." Deanna counted the ten pennies and put them in her purse. 3, (Summer 1959): 180. Universal was going broke and the idea of a new star who had two very obvious advantages she had great talent and came very cheap was extremely tempting. Mayer let her go, but his notion of box-office poison was another studio's sweet success. Encounter with Siodmak There is no rough styling, trying to make it seem, without understanding the essence. Gall, who also wrote the drama, has done a fine job. [4], In early 1935, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was planning a biographical film on the life of opera star Ernestine Schumann-Heink and was having difficulty finding an actress to play the young opera singer. If they were allowed to be managed and controlled, for example, by Reputable Fan Clubs, that would have been Great News for Her Fans. She wanted to take on different materials and pick her own directors. I have come across tons of Actresses who left Acting when they were young. Edna Mae Durbin (December 4, 1921 April 17, 2013),[1] known professionally as Deanna Durbin, was a Canadian-born actress and singer, who moved to the USA with her family in infancy. An orphaned boarding-school graduate secretly attends a prestigious ball, where she falls for the boyfriend of her snobbish cousin. According to the New York Times, Durbin did shed some insight on her departure from Hollywood in a 1958 letter. D.J.. Unlike Judy Garland, she seemed to be very mature in the films that she made, even as a young teenager. She appeared in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s. (LogOut/ Legal Statement. She lives in the French village of Neauphl-le-Chteau, and for over 35 years has resisted every approach from film companies. Legal Statement. Hi, David!What a great find and such a personal and detailed interview about her private life and career highlights. He also teaches writing at New Jersey City University. Hopper, Hedda. Durbin turned down several offers for a comeback, including a Broadway role as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady; she later said, "I had my ticket for Paris in my pocket. Durbin had an older sister named Edith, who recognized Deanna's musical talents at an early age and helped Deanna to take singing lessons at Ralph Thomas Academy. Also in 1936, Durbin began a radio collaboration with Eddie Cantor which lasted until 1938, when her heavy workload for Universal forced her to quit her weekly appearances. I'd love to have more insight into this enigmatic lody. Durbin and David raised a son, Peter David (born in June 1951), as well as Durbin's daughter Jessica, on a farm outside of Paris. They were playful and innocent creatures, kind and in many ways ingenuous.In those years it was like a chill of fresh air among the crumbling world.In addition to the actor's gift and Durbin was a beautiful voice. That year her fan club was the biggest on earth. I suspect that had a lot to do with her decision to just quit.. ", Anne Frank was a fan of Durbin, and pasted two photos of her on the wall in the family's hideout; the photos are still on the wall today. Between December 15, 1936, and July 22, 1947, Deanna Durbin recorded 50 tunes for Decca Records. By 1938, Hollywood launched a nationwide search to find the right young man who would give Durbin her first screen kiss in the movie First Love, the New York Times reported. She stated that the studio pushed a "childlike image" on her, but I'm not so sure about that. Additionally, she was no fan of interviews and other promotional elements the job called for. She actually grew up in the Los Angeles area, where her father, formerly a Canadian Pacific railway blacksmith, set up shop shortly after her birth. I did find it in its entirety (with that same picture from the 1980s) at Java Journey in a 2010 article on this page: http://javabeanrush.blogspot.com/2010/11/DeannaDurbinInterview.html. The Shipman interview does suggest that the serene self-confidence of Durbin's characters was consistent with her personality off-screen. Durbin figures prominently in the 1963 Ray Bradbury short story "The Anthem Sprinters" (collected in The Machineries of Joy). Deanna Durbin once said her screen persona "never had any similarity to me, not even coincidentally." Perhaps. [2] In 1938, she received an Academy Juvenile Award with Mickey Rooney. And. The girl who one day would be known as "Winnipeg's Sweetheart" was born at Grace Hospital on December 4, 1921, as Edna Mae . DEANNA DURBIN INTERVIEW Visiting a Deanna Durbin fan site , ( Deannadurbindevotees.com), I was fascinated to read an interview author David Shipman did with Deanna in 1983 at her home in France. She was given the professional name Deanna at the beginning of her association with Universal Studios in 1936, when she was still 14 years old. The legend was that the two, who starred in a movie together in 1936, were lifelong bitter rivals, but really, they were not. He said, She was very young when she left Hollywood. Prior to singing "Whatever Became of Hubert? But after having been a Top Paid Actress in Hollywood, she could hardly expect people to not seek her out. TELEVISION ACADEMY and ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES are registered trademarks of ATAS. Hard to imagine being put in a jail for your safetyone more reason why I'm glad I'm not famous! 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. Nobody knows very much about her. Well, of course you do - Dorothy from Oz. Her work was credited with saving the studio from bankruptcy,[2] and led to Durbin being awarded the Academy Juvenile Award in 1938. William continued, She just became displeased with Hollywood. Durbin was also able to retool her second sequel to Three Smart Girls from Three Smart Girls Join Up to Hers to Hold (1943), revolving solely around her character. [16] However, while her adult dramatic roles may have been more satisfying for Durbin, it was clear her fans preferred her in light musical confections. Renamed Deanna Durbin for show business purposes, by age 21 she was the most highly paid female star in the world. It's a Date (1940) Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance 6.4 Rate Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. In the film, Jane Barlow, ballerina and a student of Nijinska, was a body double for Durbin. What makes Deanna Durbin's story different is that she was never comfortable with adulation. What did her friends say? She didnt really care to do interviews that all the promotional things that came with doing films. Needless to say, I was, along with her other fans, shocked to hear about her passing. Market data provided by Factset. The rumor was that MGM wanted Deanna for the role of Dorothy in Oz and that she auditioned for it, but refused it because Judy wanted it. 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). I was living in Texas when Deanna Durban passed away. I think she wanted it.Only once did she allow to publish her photo in order to prove that she had not grown fat and was passing through the Triumphal Frame without having her stomach tucked.I apologize for the mistakes. No other details were given. I couldnt discover why she didnt try. This time she had a menu which she said some one wanted Deanna to autograph. The character I was forced into had little or nothing in common with myself - or with other youth of my generation, for that matter. Item Information. Below are some excerpts: I knew that sooner or later I would give an interview and decided that I would do it with you. What I did find difficult was that this acquired maturity had to be hidden under the childlike personality my films and publicity projected on me., I hated being in a goldfish bowl. (Photo by Donaldson Collection/Getty Images), PBS DOCUMENTARY ON 30S HOLLYWOOD STAR MAE WEST TO AIR: SHE WAS A SEXUAL GANGSTER. 1941 DEANNA DURBIN MOVIE NICE GIRL Love at Last/ PERHAPS Decca 3654 A-209 78. The life and career of the seemingly forgotten movie star are explored in a recently published biography titled Deanna Durbin A Hollywood Fairy Tale - The Legend of Edna Mae by William Harper. I loved to sing. The one woman play just opened at the Soho Playhouse, on Van Dam Street, in New York. It turns out she simply enjoyed her private life. Winston Churchill was also a fan of Durbin, screening her films "on celebratory wartime occasions". "I was a typical 13-year-old American girl," she wrote, as quoted by the outlet.. Even as a young child, she could hold her own on the screen. She was young, beautiful, possessed all the glory of the world, but she preferred quietness, protection from reporters and insects. In the days when child stars were wholesome, Durbin was everyone's idea of the perfect girl next door, and she was a huge money-spinner. Durbins last two movies did not do well, said Harper. More than Six Decades in Retirement. She likely made lots of money during her career and didnt have to work again. She turned down his offer because she felt she needed more singing lessons. "[14] Although the film received mixed reviews, Durbin later called it her "only really good film". But I never have time to spend it." The waitress was back again. I was happy on the set. So, what happened? Her life was totally different from the one she led in Hollywood, which makes her all the more fascinating.. There were Deanna Durbin dolls and dresses. For one thing, just take a look at my last four films and youll appreciate that the stories I had to defend were mediocre, near impossible. De Segurola was commissioned to advise the Metropolitan Opera on her progress. "Beneath The Lights Of Home" being the most requested record. Im sure that she was happy. T-shirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more, designed and sold by independent artists around the world. An unnamed caricature of Durbin also appeared in the Warner Brother's cartoon "Malibu Beach Party" (1940). With Pasternak producing for Universal, Durbin starred in a succession of successful musical films, including One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937),[5] Mad About Music (1938), That Certain Age (1938), Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939), and First Love (1939)most of which were directed by Henry Koster. [12] Durbin also dabbled in other genres, such as the romantic comedy His Butler's Sister (1943) and the musical Western Can't Help Singing (1944), her only Technicolor film, which was produced on location in southern Utah and co-starred Robert Paige. She then withdrew from show business and lived in France, closely guarding her privacy for decades. I do my own shopping, bring up my two children and sing an hour every day.. Published: January 13, 2014 | 06:21 . And it made us believe that somehow, we could achieve the same.. On August 22, 1948, Universal-International announced a lawsuit which sought to collect wages the studio had paid Durbin in advance. 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). [4] She made her first film appearance in the short Every Sunday (1936) with Judy Garland, another teenage singer-actress whose career would rival Durbin's. The light comedy For the Love of Mary (1948) was her swansong. When a teenage Deanna Durbin appeared on screen in the 1930s, wearing a decorous white dress with her hands clasped together, singing with a bell-like purity, audiences sighed contentedly. Deanna Durbin was a child starin the '30s. She was able to convey the same elusive, which has no words in any language.Deanna has grown, the world has changed. Over the next 62 years, she only gave one single media interview. Durbin turned down the role, and was suspended by the studio from October 16, 1941, to early February 1942. Would someone elaborate about where in Texas was Deanna and her mother mobbed. Deanna is a favourite on my local nostalgia radio. She tried to match these changes and starred in a fashionable then noir-style film. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. In 1941, Durbin starred in It Started with Eve (1941), her last film with Pasternak and director Henry Koster. Maybe her family will relent and allow a Biography to be written. . In her early childhood there were no obvious signs that one day she would be a bigger box office attraction than Shirley Temple. I have never been so frightened. Dann Cahn on actress Deanna Durbin "saving" Universal Studios in the 1930s. 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