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Up in Central Park

Up in Central Park (1948) more movies like this

directed by William Seiter
featuring Deanna Durbin, Dick Haymes, Vincent Price, Albert Sharpe, Tom Powers

The Dorothy Fields-Sigmund Romberg Broadway musical Up in Central Park has been retooled as a vehicle for a pleasantly plump Deanna Durbin. Set in New York in the 1870s, the film casts Durbin as hoydenish Irish immigrant Rosie Moore, who becomes the romantic bone of contention between muckraking newspaper reporter John Matthews (Dick Haymes) and ...

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I'll Be Yours

I'll Be Yours (1947) more movies like this

directed by William Seiter
featuring Deanna Durbin, Tom Drake, William Bendix, Adolphe Menjou, Walter Catlett

In this musical comedy, Louise Ginglebusher (Deanna Durbin) is a girl from a small town who comes top New York City with dreams of making it in show business. She gets her foot in the door in a roundabout way when she gets a job as an usherette at a prestigious movie palace run by tycoon J. Conrad Nelson (Adolphe Menjou). It soon becomes obvious ...

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His Butler's Sister

His Butler's Sister (1943) more movies like this

directed by Frank Borzage
featuring Deanna Durbin, Pat O'Brien, Franchot Tone, Akim Tamiroff, Evelyn Ankers

In this frothy musical comedy, Ann Carter (Deanna Durbin) is an aspiring singer from the Midwest who decides to move to New York in hopes of advancing her career. Her half brother, Martin Murphy (Pat O'Brien), is already living in the Big Apple, and has told her that he's doing well as a businessman; however, when she arrives at his door, she ...

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Mad About Music

Mad About Music (1938) more movies like this

directed by Norman Taurog
featuring Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Arthur Treacher, Gail Patrick, William Frawley

In this musical comedy, a girl with a lively imagination gets in hot water when she tries to make her tall tales real. Gloria Harkinson (Deanna Durbin) is the teenage daughter of Gwen Taylor (Gail Patrick), a well-known Hollywood actress who has shipped Gloria off to a boarding school in Switzerland to keep the girl out of the public eye, partly ...

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It's a Date

It's a Date (1940) more movies like this

directed by William Seiter
featuring Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Eugene Pallette, Samuel S. Hinds, Henry Stephenson, S.Z. Sakall

In It's a Date, the teenage diva Deanna Durbin is cast as Pamela Drake, the daughter of celebrated stage actress Georgia Drake (Kay Francis). Hoping to find success as an actress herself, Pamela energetically lobbies for the role of the maid in an upcoming play based on the life of St. Bernadette -- a role that has already been given to Georgia. ...

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Because of Him

Because of Him (1946) more movies like this

directed by Richard Wallace
featuring Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Charles Laughton, Helen Broderick, Stanley Ridges

As appealing as ever in 1946, Deanna Durbin was admittedly getting a bit long in tooth for her ingenue-like role in Because of Him. Durbin is cast as Kim Walker, an aspiring actress determined to become the protegee of famed Broadway actor/producer Sheridan (Charles Laughton). The only person not charmed by Kim's herculean efforts to achieve ...

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Can't Help Singing

Can't Help Singing (1944) more movies like this

directed by Frank Ryan
featuring Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, Akim Tamiroff, David Bruce, Leonid Kinskey

Deanna Durbin's first Technicolor feature is a lavish musical western, replete with a Jerome Kern-E. Y. Harburg score. Set in the mid-19th century, the story finds Caroline (Durbin), daughter of a wealthy senator, bound and determined to wed dashing cavalry officer Lawlor (Robert Paige). When the officer is transferred to California, Caroline ...

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First Love

First Love (1939) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette, Helen Parrish, Lewis Howard

Best remembered as the film in which 17-year-old Deanna Durbin receives her first screen kiss, First Love is a modernized variation of the Cinderella legend (there's even "six white mice" in the form of a sextet of motorcycle policemen!). The film casts Durbin as Constance Harding, the poor relation of wealthy tycoon James Clinton (Eugene Pallette ...

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Three Smart Girls

Three Smart Girls (1936) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring Deanna Durbin, Binnie Barnes, Alice Brady, Ray Milland, Charles Winninger, Mischa Auer

Deanna Durbin, the teenaged soprano who literally saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy, made her feature-film debut in Three Smart Girls. Durbin, Nan Grey and Barbara Read play three wealthy young sisters, living with their divorced mother (Nella Walker) in Europe. The girls learn that their father (Charles Winninger) has made plans to remarry ...

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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943) more movies like this

directed by Bruce Manning
featuring Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Treacher, Harry Davenport

Making her first film appearance since 1941, Deanna Durbin plays the title role in The Amazing Mrs. Holliday. Truth to tell, however, there is no Mrs. Holliday: it's the guise assumed by idealistic missionary Ruth (Durbin) to sneak a group of Chinese war orphans into the US. With the help of ship's steward Timothy (Barry Fitzgerald), Ruth poses as ...

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Christmas Holiday

Christmas Holiday (1944) more movies like this

directed by Robert Siodmak
featuring Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, Dean Harens, Gale Sondergaard, Gladys George, Richard Whorf

Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Jackie (Deanna Durbin), marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette (Gene Kelly). Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability and soon drags Jackie into a life of misery. When ...

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Something in the Wind

Something in the Wind (1947) more movies like this

directed by Irving Pichel
featuring Deanna Durbin, Donald O'Connor, John Dall, Charles Winninger, Helena Carter

Deanna Durbin stars in the musical shaggy dog story Something in the Wind. When the wealthy uncle of the Read family dies, he leaves instructions in his will to bequeath a set amount of money to his mistress, one Mary Collins. The family assumes it to be a pretty young female radio personality called Mary Collins (and played by Deanna Durbin), ...

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It Started With Eve

It Started With Eve (1941) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings, Guy Kibbee, Margaret Tallichet

A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring Deanna Durbin. Jonathan Reynolds Jr. (Robert Cummings) is the playboy son of multi-millionaire business magnate Jonathan Reynolds, Sr. (Charles Laughton). Junior has told his father that he's finally met the woman he's going to ...

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Hers to Hold

Hers to Hold (1943) more movies like this

directed by Frank Ryan
featuring Deanna Durbin, Joseph Cotten, Charles Winninger, Evelyn Ankers, Gus Schilling

Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the ...

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Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring Deanna Durbin, Charles Winninger, Nan Grey, Helen Parrish, Robert Cummings

In this sequel to 1936's Three Smart Girls, Deanna Durbin is back as the most precocious of a sister trio: the other girls are Nan Grey and Helen Parrish (replacing the first film's Barbara Read. Three Smart Girls dealt with the girls' efforts to reunite their parents. In the sequel, Durbin pokes her turned-up nose into the affairs of her older ...

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That Certain Age

That Certain Age (1938) more movies like this

directed by Edward Ludwig
featuring Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Nancy Carroll

In this musical romantic comedy of 1938, Deanna Durbin plays Alice Fullerton, a young woman of a "certain age" who is prone to developing crushes against her best judgment. Her parents have taken in an intriguing house guest, Vincent Bullitt (Melvyn Douglas), a successful international news correspondent who has come to town to work on some ...

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Spring Parade (1940) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, Mischa Auer, Henry Stephenson, S.Z. Sakall

In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman (Deanna Durbin) attends a fair in Austria and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer (Bob Cummings) who secretly ...

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Nice Girl?

Nice Girl? (1941) more movies like this

directed by William Seiter
featuring Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Walter Brennan, Robert Stack, Robert Benchley

Nice Girl? answers its own question by casting the relentlessy nice Deanna Durbin in the title role. In her first truly adult role, Durbin plays Jane Dana, the blossoming daughter of high school principal Oliver Dana (Robert Benchley). Jane is being ardently courted by longtime boyfriend Don Webb (Robert Stack) and by the more worldly Richard ...

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