Deanna Durbin, 1921-2013

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Popular Universal Studios star of 1930s and 1940s left Hollywood to live with her French husband

Thanks to Universal's being terrible with their back catalog

, Deanna Durbin isn't as well remembered as some of the other juvenile stars of the day, even though she was just as talented. She started off at MGM, where she was paired with Judy Garland in the short Every Sunday, and sang just as well as Garland if not better. Part, but not all, of Every Sunday, has made it to Youtube:

Durbin eventually left MGM for Universal, making such films as One Hundred Men and a Girl, where she got to show off her operatic chops again as she tries to convince Leopold Stokowski (playing himself) to hire her father (Adolphe Menjou) and his unemployed classical musician friends:

Sick of Hollywood, she left in the late 1940s after marrying her third husband, a French director, and retired to a life in the French countryside

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