Deanna Durbin, who as a plucky child movie star with a sweet soprano voice charmed American audiences during the Depression and saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy before she vanished from public view 64 years ago, has died, a fan club announced on Tuesday April 30, 2013. She was 91.
From 1936 to 1942, Ms. Durbin was everyone’s intrepid kid sister or
spunky daughter, a wholesome, radiant, can-do girl who in a series of
wildly popular films was always fixing the problems of unhappy adults.
And as an instant Hollywood star with her very first movie, “Three Smart Girls,” she almost single-handedly fixed the problems of her fretting bosses at Universal, bringing them box-office gold. MORE HERE
The scene in the video above is from the film 'Lady on a Train'
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