GalliaWatch (Free subscription) | 12/31/2008
Remember Sing Along With Mitch Miller? Here are two Scottish songs everyone knows. The original poem Annie Laurie was written around 1700, then re-worked in the 19th century. A very well-sung version of it by Deanna Durbin (you really have to be of a certain age to know about her, but she has a devoted following) can be heard here , with the full lyrics. The second song needs no introduction. Happy...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008
One of the most enjoyable movie viewing pleasures over the past year or so has been seeing several of Deanna Durbin's films for the first time. Tonight I watched Deanna's very first feature-length film, THREE SMART GIRLS (1936). THREE SMART GIRLS was released the same year as the MGM short subject EVERY SUNDAY , in which Deanna costarred with Judy Garland. (That short can be seen on the DVD release...
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Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Ruth Kirke (Deanna Durbin) is an American teacher raised in China by her missionary parents. When war forces Ruth to flee the country with eight orphans in tow, she must masquerade as THE AMAZING MRS. HOLLIDAY in order to assure the children entrance into the United States. Wealthy Commodore Holliday (Harry Davenport) went down with the ship which was transporting Ruth and the children to safety, and...
The Cranky Professor (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
So Turner Classic Movies showed a particularly horrific group of one-reel wonders (well, if you're like me and thing that tap is a tool of the devil). The middle number was this - Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland save the...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Gloria Harkinson (Deanna Durbin) attends a charming Swiss boarding school, but she doesn't have a father and hasn't seen her American movie star mother Gwen (Gail Patrick) in several years. Gwen's manager has convinced Gwen that if the public believes she's old enough to have a teenage daughter, she'll lose her career and her ability to support her daughter. Lonely Gloria can't talk about her mother,...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
One good Deanna Durbin movie deserves another, so I followed up last night's film, FOR THE LOVE OF MARY (1947), with Deanna's 1946 romantic comedy BECAUSE OF HIM. BECAUSE OF HIM finds Our Girl Deanna as Kim Walker, an aspiring actress. Kim is not above unethical conniving in order to secure an interview with a Broadway producer, but because it's Deanna Durbin, we know she's really a nice girl at heart...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
FOR THE LOVE OF MARY is a delightful romantic comedy which finds Deanna Durbin starring in the title role as Mary Peppertree, a White House switchboard operator. Mary has recently left her job at the Supreme Court switchboard and jilted her fiance, Philip (Jeffrey Lynn of the FOUR DAUGHTERS series), prompting several Supreme Court justices to attempt to play matchmaker and reunite Mary and Philip....
From On High (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
After I ran that YouTube video of the incomparable Deanna Durbin in the 1936 short film "Every Sunday" on the weblog on Saturday I was contacted by the gentleman who runs a tribute site to her and her illustrious career. It's entitled "Deanna Durbin Devotees." You can access it here . You too can be a devotee. All things Deanna. I'm bookmarking it.
From On High (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
I'll go with style and grace. And talent. Here's one of my favorite actresses and songstresses of all time - Deanna Durbin - along with Judy Garland in the 1936 release of "Every Sunday." Simply marvelous. * Durbin did it here way , by the way. In 1948 she walked away from a wildly successful film career, never to return.
Slideroll, Latest Slideshows (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
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The Morehead The Merrier (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Such has been my screams of misery the past few days since a tragedy beyond my imagination occurred! Early Sunday morning, a fire broke out in the Universal backlot, the home of the classic monsters, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Phantom of the Civic Light Opera, Deanna Durbin, The Wolfman, and The Mummy, and the place where I shot my immortal classic films, the western Johnny Horndog , and the fantasy-adventure-romance...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
MGM musicals were my first big movie love, and I've seen most of them -- some of them many times over. Until now, however, I hadn't caught up with Jane Powell's NANCY GOES TO RIO. The plot involves a mother (Ann Sothern) and daughter (Powell) unknowingly vying for the same role in a play, as well as for the same man (Barry Sullivan). The story is on the silly side, but it's an excuse to enjoy truly...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Ann Carter (Deanna Durbin) hopes to have a singing career in New York and shows up on the Park Avenue doorstep of her long-lost half brother Martin (Pat O'Brien). When Ann learns that Martin is not a wealthy New Yorker as she had assumed, but the butler to Broadway composer Charles Gerard (Franchot Tone), Ann takes a job working alongside Martin as Gerard's maid. Before long, Gerard is charmed by HIS...
Jessica Schneider (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
I have decided I need to cleanse my system. First, I am tired of looking at Che's face and so yes it was an April Fools. I'm no more a Che supporter than I would be of Communism. So here is a very fun and very cute video of Judy Garland at the age of 14 singing with Deanna Durbin. It's called "Every Sunday" and it was made in 1936. It is Judy's first "film" even though it's only 10 mins long. She belts...
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Nancy Goes To Rio
Nancy Goes To Rio , a Jane Powell film is actually a take off on Deanna Durbin's film It's A Date . If you look at the two, the story line is very similar...
anonymous - 11/25/2008