Word: deanna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something in the Wind (Universal-International) tries desperately, and without success, to make a hepcat out of Deanna Durbin. As a lady disc jockey who breaks into song at improbable moments, Deanna runs afoul of a socialite prig (John Dall) who thinks she is out to blackmail him. While giving him his comeuppance, she hopefully wiggles her hips and sings a couple of songs in the manner of a self-consciously refined Betty Hutton. Instead of seizing its opportunity for a few good-natured jabs at the jitterbug cult, Something in the Wind quickly sinks in a welter of foolish...
...built big houses for movie stars and executives at $25,000 to $100,000 each (Trousdale now lives in an English-Colonial house he built for Deanna Durbin, later bought back), switched to building small houses in large projects when war came. On each project, he and his stockholders put up the money to cover the cost of real estate, got Bank of America loans to cover all construction costs, had little trouble getting materials by his cash-on-the-line policy. Like most builders he formed a new corporation for each project, dissolved it when the project was finished...
International's good fortune began when the Government ordered the industry to give up the monopolistic practice of block booking (TIME, June 24). Shorn of the chance to peddle its potboiling B pictures, Universal was left with only two A-makers, Deanna Durbin and Abbott & Costello, to service its outlets...
Fielding has also signed up Jeanette MacDonald, and has his heart set on getting Deanna Durbin ("My inspiration came when I was little more than a child and saw Deanna Durbin in 100 Men and a Girl"). Fielding is a former child prodigy who made concert violin tours at eleven, studied under Joseph Szigeti, spent the war staging concerts for the London Philharmonic in 70 provincial towns. As a budding impresario, he always bills himself above his artists. Last week, for another Kostelanetz concert, he modestly gave himself second billing to royalty. His posters read: "In the gracious presence...
...Born. To Deanna Durbin, 23, thrush from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who flew to Hollywood stardom on wings of song; and Felix Jackson, 43, producer who helped guide her flight: their first child, a daughter. Name: Jessica Louise. Weight...