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...Buter's Sister (Universal) first appears with her back to the camera, walking through a train. As she passes, the faces of male passengers light up as if she were at worst an improvement on Botticelli's Venus. Then she turns around. She is Deanna Durbin, ready to burst into song at the tap of a baton...
...Miss Durbin portrays a young middle-western lady with an ambitious voice. She wants nothing so much as a chance to display it before Hit-Composer Franchot Tone. Her surprise and delight may be imagined when she discovers that her brother (Pat O'Brien) is the boozy butler of Composer Tone's Park Avenue penthouse. But it is Butler O'Brien's special business to keep thrushes out of this quiet nest, and for several reels Miss Durbin, though she crowbars her way into a maid's job there, has to content herself with charming...
FULL STORY DEANNA DURBIN'S ROMANCE...
Sued for Divorce. By Deanna Durbin, 20, who sang Universal Pictures out of bankruptcy (to the tune of a $20,000,000 box office); Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Vaughn Paul, 28, round-faced peacetime associate producer, after two and a half years; in Hollywood. The grounds: mental cruelty...
Singer Deanna Durbin and Mercury Player Joseph Cotton are teamed as a west coast debutante and a flyer on leave, who thinks he is out for a good time but finds true love. Posing as a doctor at a Red Cross Blood Bank, the flyer meets the debutante who promptly shuns him, but reconsiders his affection by getting work at the airplane factory where he is stationed...