Episode 801: Deanna Durbin – Film Musical Icon

from MusicalTalk - The UK's Independent Musical Theatre Podcast

Thos chats to Melanie Gall, biographer of Deanna Durbin, about her one woman show "Ingenue: Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland and the Golden Age of Hollywood" to learn how "Winnipeg's Sweetheart", Deanna Durbin, became the biggest star of musical films in the 1930s, surpassing even her occasional co-star, Judy Garland, but also how she deliberately disappeared completely from view – and from memory.

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