Deanna Durbin Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Deanna: Just as a Hollywood pin-up represents sex to dissatisfied erotics, so I represented the ideal daughter millions of fathers and mothers wished they had.

Trivia

Deanna's likeness was used on many dolls manufactured from 1938 through the 1940s.

Deanna sent a recent picture of herself to Life Magazine in 1980 to dispel rumors in newspapers and magazines that she had become grossly overweight.

Deanna's movies, Three Smart Girls (1936) and One Hundred Men And A Girl (1937) were credited as saving Universal Pictures from bankruptcy.

Deanna has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame at 1722 Vine Street.

Deanna was given a special Juvenile Oscar om 1938, a shorter-size version of the statue given to adult performers.

Deanna's first film appearance was in the short film Every Sunday (1936), in which she co-starred with Judy Garland.