Deanna Durbin Quotes

“Deanna Durbin's movies are about innocence and sweetness. They're from a different time and a different place. Outside the movie house, there was Depression, poverty, war, death, and loss. Audiences then were willing to pretend, to enter into a game of escape. No one really thought that the world was like a Deanna Durbin movie, they just wanted to pretend it was for about an hour and a half.”
― Jeanine Basinger, The Star Machine

“She's another Deanna Durbin,' [Harry] Cohn said, 'except that she can't sing.”
― Gene Tierney, Self-Portrait