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  1. May 2, 2013 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Deanna Durbin, a star whose songs and smile made her one of the biggest box office draws of Hollywood's Golden Age with fans that included Winston Churchill, has died. She was 91. Family friend Bob Koster of Los Angeles told The Associated Press that Durbin died on about April 20 in a village outside Paris, where she had lived out of public view since 1949. The exact date ...

  2. May 1, 2013 · Deanna Durbin, a singing child movie star of the 1930s who became one of the world's highest paid actresses before turning her back on stardom, has died at the age of 91.

  3. May 2, 2013 · By Claudia Luther, Special to the Los Angeles Times. May 2, 2013 12 AM PT. Deanna Durbin, the singing starlet with the bubbly personality and the jewel-tone voice whose enormously popular movies ...

  4. Mar 1, 2008 · Deanna Durbin, at age 18, singing Franz Schubert's masterpiece. Here is what Schubert had to say about this song, in a letter to his father: "My new songs ...

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  5. May 1, 2013 · Deanna Durbin, one of Hollywood's biggest box-office stars in the 1930s and early '40s, has died aged 91. Her son, Peter H David, made the announcement in a newsletter to her fans, saying she died ...

  6. Deanna Durbin, whose wholesome sweetness and superb singing voice saved Universal Studios from bankruptcy, was one of the top box-office attractions of the late 1930s and the 1940s. Starring in 24 movies and making numerous recordings and radio appearances, she abruptly left Hollywood at age 27, saying that she hated all the trappings of stardom.

  7. May 1, 2013 · Deanna Durbin, possessor of arguably the most beautiful and silken lyric soprano to grace the screen, was one of Hollywood's most popular stars for a over a decade.