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Was given a special Juvenile Oscar in 1938.
Was an option to play Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
By twenty-one, she was the highest-paid woman in the United States and highest-paid female film star in the World.
Deanna Durbin dolls existed along with many other types of merchandising in the 1940s.
Universal Pictures top star in the 1940s where she was paid $400,000 per film. She is reported as the star who saved the company.
Tried for the voice of Snow White in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) but Disney himself rejected her, claiming she sounded "too mature." She was 14 at the time.
Has an older sister, Edith, a teacher.
Daughter, Jessica Louise Jackson, born in 1946
In 1980, she submitted a recent photo of herself to Life Magazine in order to silence rumors she was overweight
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, as she said later, "I had my ticket for Paris in my pocket."
She was the number one female box office star in Britain for the years 1939- 1942 inclusive. She was so popular that in 1942 a seven day "Deanna Durbin Festival" was held during which her films were screened exclusively on the Odeon Theatre Circuit throughout Britain, a feat that has never been duplicated for any other star. According to reports from the BBC over the past three decades, it receives more requests from the public for Durbin's films and recordings, than for those of any other star of Hollywood's Golden Age.
She was Holocaust victim Anne Frank's favorite movie star. There are two pictures of Durbin on Anne's "Movie Wall" in the secret annex in Amsterdam where Frank and her family hid from the Nazis.
In 1941, Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini published an open letter to Durbin in his official newspaper, "Il Popolo", asking her to intercede with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on behalf of American youth to dissuade him from becoming involved in Word War II. She didn't.
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 (1937) to celebrate British victories during World War II. He considered her "a formidable talent."
In Italy, all her films were dubbed by either Rosetta Calavetta or Lidia Simoneschi.
Salary for 1939, $195,000.
Her left hand suffered from an unidentified form of paralysis. In her films it is often hidden behind her body or in a pocket, or being held by the right hand. In publicity stills, the view is sometimes reversed so as to make the right hand appear as the left hand.
When the reign of Universal's founder Carl Laemmle ended abruptly in the Spring of 1936, the new studio head, Charles R. Rogers quickly signed the 15-year old when producer Joe Pasternak told him her MGM contract had expired. Deanna rapidly became 'New Universal's' biggest star. She literally single-handedly saved the studio from bankruptcy in the last years of the 1930s.
Salary
It Started with Eve (1941) $400,000
Where Are They Now
Retired to France.
From Imdb.com
Deanna Durbin was suspose to make a movie with Charles Boyer, but for some reason it fell through. That would have been intresting!
When she was around 14, she got a dog, Tippy, for 2 dollars at the pet store! There were a lot of pics taken with her, and she once said that when she started driving, she "liked to drive with Tippy in the car, because he wasn't a 'backseat' driver"! LOL!
When she and Joseph Cotton were making the movie 'Hers to Hold' they both stayed the night @ the studio, not knowing that the other one was there. Hedda Hooper made a big thing of it in her gossip column, and later Joseph Cotton went up to her when she was sitting at a resturant, and kicked her chair out from under her! He also wrote in his bio later, that NOTHING happened, and they didn't even know that the other one was there! That's cool he stuck up for her!!
Was given a special Juvenile Oscar in 1938.
Was an option to play Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
By twenty-one, she was the highest-paid woman in the United States and highest-paid female film star in the World.
Deanna Durbin dolls existed along with many other types of merchandising in the 1940s.
Universal Pictures top star in the 1940s where she was paid $400,000 per film. She is reported as the star who saved the company.
Tried for the voice of Snow White in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) but Disney himself rejected her, claiming she sounded "too mature." She was 14 at the time.
Has an older sister, Edith, a teacher.
Daughter, Jessica Louise Jackson, born in 1946
In 1980, she submitted a recent photo of herself to Life Magazine in order to silence rumors she was overweight
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, as she said later, "I had my ticket for Paris in my pocket."
She was the number one female box office star in Britain for the years 1939- 1942 inclusive. She was so popular that in 1942 a seven day "Deanna Durbin Festival" was held during which her films were screened exclusively on the Odeon Theatre Circuit throughout Britain, a feat that has never been duplicated for any other star. According to reports from the BBC over the past three decades, it receives more requests from the public for Durbin's films and recordings, than for those of any other star of Hollywood's Golden Age.
She was Holocaust victim Anne Frank's favorite movie star. There are two pictures of Durbin on Anne's "Movie Wall" in the secret annex in Amsterdam where Frank and her family hid from the Nazis.
In 1941, Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini published an open letter to Durbin in his official newspaper, "Il Popolo", asking her to intercede with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on behalf of American youth to dissuade him from becoming involved in Word War II. She didn't.
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 (1937) to celebrate British victories during World War II. He considered her "a formidable talent."
In Italy, all her films were dubbed by either Rosetta Calavetta or Lidia Simoneschi.
Salary for 1939, $195,000.
Her left hand suffered from an unidentified form of paralysis. In her films it is often hidden behind her body or in a pocket, or being held by the right hand. In publicity stills, the view is sometimes reversed so as to make the right hand appear as the left hand.
When the reign of Universal's founder Carl Laemmle ended abruptly in the Spring of 1936, the new studio head, Charles R. Rogers quickly signed the 15-year old when producer Joe Pasternak told him her MGM contract had expired. Deanna rapidly became 'New Universal's' biggest star. She literally single-handedly saved the studio from bankruptcy in the last years of the 1930s.
Salary
It Started with Eve (1941) $400,000
Where Are They Now
Retired to France.
From Imdb.com
Deanna Durbin was suspose to make a movie with Charles Boyer, but for some reason it fell through. That would have been intresting!
When she was around 14, she got a dog, Tippy, for 2 dollars at the pet store! There were a lot of pics taken with her, and she once said that when she started driving, she "liked to drive with Tippy in the car, because he wasn't a 'backseat' driver"! LOL!
When she and Joseph Cotton were making the movie 'Hers to Hold' they both stayed the night @ the studio, not knowing that the other one was there. Hedda Hooper made a big thing of it in her gossip column, and later Joseph Cotton went up to her when she was sitting at a resturant, and kicked her chair out from under her! He also wrote in his bio later, that NOTHING happened, and they didn't even know that the other one was there! That's cool he stuck up for her!!
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Comment by Grobanite19 on July 14, 2008 at 8:59pm -
Yea, I thought that was really awsome!
I KNOW! She would have been GREAT in Snow White!!
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Comment by Sandra on July 14, 2008 at 7:48pm -
That's so cool she was Anne Frank's favorite movie star!
I would have liked her in Snow White.
She was only 14.
It's like get serious Walt.
LOL
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