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Deanna Durbin
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4 December 1921 - 17 April 2013
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Edna May Durbin or Deanna Durbin was born on December 4, 1921, in Winnipeg, Canada. The American film actress and Hollywood star of the 1940s grew up in a family of immigrants from England. Dina had a beautiful voice since childhood. Thanks to such outstanding talent, already at the age of fourteen, she signed a contract with the MGM film studio to shoot in short films together with Judy Garland. She won success with the audience after filming in the musical Every Sunday. Then Dina starred in picture
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Edna May Durbin or Deanna Durbin was born on December 4, 1921, in Winnipeg, Canada. The American film actress and Hollywood star of the 1940s grew up in a family of immigrants from England. Dina had a beautiful voice since childhood. Thanks to such outstanding talent, already at the age of fourteen, she signed a contract with the MGM film studio to shoot in short films together with Judy Garland.
She won success with the audience after filming in the musical Every Sunday. Then Dina starred in
picture "Three cute girls" The movie saved the studio from bankruptcy. In 1938, she received the prestigious Academy Award in the nomination “Oscar Junior”, and two years later, in 1940, she was the highest paid actress in the United States. However, the role of a teenage girl did not suit Dean and she tried her best to move away from him. As a result, the films “Christmas” and “Lady on the Train” were released. But fans wanted to see a young Durbin, and the management of the film studio broke the contract with Dina, explaining that the actress was too old for such roles.
Dina stopped acting, separated from her first husband. The money Durbin earned on the set, she invested in the business. This allowed her to lead a fairly secure lifestyle. She married a second time to screenwriter Felix Jackson, in marriage with whom a daughter was born. After her divorce from Jackson, she married film director Charles David and gave birth to a son. After the death of her third husband, Dinah Durbin moved to the town of Nofl-les-Chateau near Paris. /