Fan Newsletter: Deanna Durbin

Deanna Durbin: David announced her death through a fan newsletter, saying she died a few days ago, according to CBC. But she gave it all up in 1949, at age 27, saying she had never been happy as a movie star. She married film director Charles David, and they shunned the spotlight, living in France. Canadian actress Deanna Durbin is shown in 1944 in the period musical Can't Help Singing. Hulton Archive/Getty Images Deanna Durbin, a Winnipeg-born screen star of the 1930s and 1940s, has died, according to her son Peter H. David. She was 91. In 1947, she was the highest paid star in Hollywood, known for movies such as Three Smart Girls, Spring Parade and Mad about Music. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.