Deanna Durbin, Winnipeg’s Sweetheart
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You can buy Melanie’s book, Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, and the Golden Age of Hollywood at McNally Robinson or wherever you get your books.
We’ve got a special guest today, folks! Musician and author Melanie Gall joins us to talk about movie star Deanna Durbin.
In the 1930s and 40s, one movie star above all had captured Winnipeggers hearts: Deanna Durbin. Born Edna Mae Durbin at Winnipeg’s Grace Hospital, Durbin skyrocketed to fame in the late 1930s with a stint on Eddie Cantor’s radio program Texico Town and the film Three Smart Girls. She’d go on to save Universal Studios from bankruptcy and become the highest paid woman in America – before abruptly retiring to France.
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