Cast: Deanna Durbin

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Deanna Durbin. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


One Hundred Men and a Girl

1937 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Deanna Durbin · Leopold Stokowski · Adolphe Menjou · Alice Brady

Synopsis The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski to lead them in a concert that leads to a...

6.6

116 votes

6.6

116 votes

It Started with Eve

1941 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Deanna Durbin · Charles Laughton · Robert Cummings · Guy Kibbee

Synopsis A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know...

6.6

78 votes

6.6

78 votes

Christmas Holiday

1944 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Deanna Durbin · Gene Kelly · Richard Whorf · Dean Harens

Synopsis Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of...

6.2

258 votes

6.2

258 votes

His Butler's Sister

1943 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Deanna Durbin · Franchot Tone · Pat O'Brien · Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis A young girl visits New York for two reasons: to see her half-brother, and to try to start a musical career.

6.0

37 votes

6.0

37 votes

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First Love

1939 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Deanna Durbin · Robert Stack · Eugene Pallette · Helen Parrish

Synopsis In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her snobby cousin Barbara. When the entire family is...

5.9

30 votes

5.9

30 votes

5.9

25 votes

Hers to Hold

1943 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Frank Ryan

Cast Deanna Durbin · Joseph Cotten · Charles Winninger · Ludwig Stössel

Synopsis Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing...

5.8

35 votes

5.8

35 votes

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Can't Help Singing

1944 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Frank Ryan

Cast Deanna Durbin · Robert Paige · Akim Tamiroff · David Bruce

Synopsis With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en...

5.8

24 votes

5.8

24 votes

Three Smart Girls

1936 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Deanna Durbin · Barbara Read · Nan Grey · Ray Milland

Synopsis The three Craig sisters, in Switzerland with their ten-years-divorced mother, run away to New York to prevent their father from marrying calculating socialite Donna Lyons. The overpowering vivacity of the Smart Girls (nominal ages 14-20) sweeps all before it, but...

5.7

30 votes

5.7

30 votes

Lady on a Train

1945 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Charles David

Cast Deanna Durbin · Ralph Bellamy · David Bruce · George Coulouris

Synopsis While waiting at a train station, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder from a nearby building. When she brings the police to the scene of the crime, they think she's crazy since there's no body. She then enlists a popular mystery...

5.7

83 votes

5.7

83 votes

Mad About Music

1938 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Deanna Durbin · Herbert Marshall · Gail Patrick · Arthur Treacher

Synopsis A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she...

5.5

56 votes

5.5

56 votes

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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

1943 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Manning

Cast Deanna Durbin · Edmond O'Brien · Barry Fitzgerald · Arthur Treacher

Synopsis A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.

5.5

59 votes

5.5

59 votes

Something in the Wind

1947 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Deanna Durbin · Charles Winninger · Donald O´Connor · John Dall

Synopsis A beautiful female disc-jockey is mistaken for the girlfriend of a geriatric millionaire by the millionaire's grandson.

5.2

37 votes

5.2

37 votes

That Certain Age

1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edward Ludwig

Cast Deanna Durbin · Melvyn Douglas · Jackie Cooper · Irene Rich

Synopsis Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton invites Bullit to the peace and quiet of his own...

5.0

29 votes

5.0

29 votes

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It's a Date

1940 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Deanna Durbin · Kay Francis · Walter Pidgeon · Fritz Feld

Synopsis An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.

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The Shining Future (S)

1944 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction LeRoy Prinz

Cast Olive Blakeney · Jack Carson · Benny Goodman · Bing Crosby

Synopsis Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how...

Not rated

Not rated

I'll Be Yours

1947 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Deanna Durbin · Tom Drake · William Bendix · Adolphe Menjou

Synopsis A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.

Not rated

Not rated

Spring Parade

1940 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Deanna Durbin · Robert Cummings · Mischa Auer · Henry Stephenson

Synopsis In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman (Deanna Durbin) attends a fair in Austria and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy...

Not rated

Not rated

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