Sort by Number of Votes - Most Rated Movies and TV Shows With Deanna Durbin

1. Lady on a Train (1945)

Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir

In New York, a woman who partially witnesses a killing from a train window seeks the aid of a crime novelist to solve the murder.

Director: Charles David | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce, George Coulouris

Votes: 2,569

2. It Started with Eve (1941)

Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

In order to please his dying father, a man convinces a hat-check girl to impersonate his fiancée, but complications arise when the father's health suddenly improves.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 1,834

3. Christmas Holiday (1944)

Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A young femme fatale-type woman realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, Richard Whorf, Dean Harens

Votes: 1,647

4. Three Smart Girls (1936)

Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Three sisters scheme to reunite their divorced parents before their wealthy father marries a conniving gold digger.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Binnie Barnes, Charles Winninger, Alice Brady, Ray Milland

Votes: 1,530 | Gross: $3.00M

5. One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)

Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

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 ... See full summary »

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Leopold Stokowski

Votes: 1,239 | Gross: $2.27M

6. First Love (1939)

Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery

An orphaned boarding school graduate secretly attends a prestigious ball, where she falls for the boyfriend of her snobbish cousin.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette, Helen Parrish

Votes: 764

7. It's a Date (1940)

Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

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.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 670

8. Mad About Music (1938)

Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

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 ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Gail Patrick, Arthur Treacher

Votes: 666

9. Can't Help Singing (1944)

Passed | 90 min | Musical, Romance, Western

A senator's daughter (who can't help singing) follows her boyfriend West in the days of the California gold rush.

Director: Frank Ryan | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, Akim Tamiroff, David Bruce

Votes: 650

10. Every Sunday (1936)

Approved | 11 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Two teenage girls lend their fantastic singing voices to the cause when the city council threatens to replace the orchestra led by one girl's grandfather as the regular entertainment at the Sunday concert-in-the-park series.

Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Judy Garland, Deanna Durbin, Jack Lindquist, Clem Bevans

Votes: 578

11. His Butler's Sister (1943)

Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Music

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

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Pat O'Brien, Akim Tamiroff

Votes: 557

12. Something in the Wind (1947)

Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Donald O'Connor, John Dall, Charles Winninger

Votes: 536

13. Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)

Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Musical

Three sisters believe life is going to be easy now that their parents are back together, but then one sister falls in love with another's fiancé and the youngest plays matchmaker.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Charles Winninger, Nan Grey, Helen Parrish

Votes: 430

14. Because of Him (1946)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery

A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Helen Broderick

Votes: 428

15. For the Love of Mary (1948)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.

Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, Don Taylor, Jeffrey Lynn

Votes: 417

16. That Certain Age (1938)

95 min | Comedy, Musical

A teenage girl clashes with her newspaper publisher father's star reporter while he stays in their country guest house, but soon finds herself falling in love with him.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich

Votes: 408

17. The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)

Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

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

Directors: Bruce Manning, Jean Renoir | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Treacher

Votes: 393

18. Show-Business at War (1943)

17 min | Documentary, Short

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

Director: Louis De Rochemont | Stars: Carole Lombard, Walt Disney, John Ford, Darryl F. Zanuck

Votes: 388

19. Nice Girl? (1941)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

A young girl finds herself attracted to one of her father's business partners.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Walter Brennan, Robert Stack

Votes: 386

20. Spring Parade (1940)

Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A Hungarian woman whose fortune predicts that she will marry may find it coming true when she meets an army drummer.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, Mischa Auer, Henry Stephenson

Votes: 383

21. I'll Be Yours (1947)

Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

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

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Tom Drake, William Bendix, Adolphe Menjou

Votes: 282

22. Hers to Hold (1943)

Passed | 94 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

The third film in the "3 Smart Girls" trilogy starring Deanna Durbin as Penny Craig, the youngest sister in the Craig Family. Now all grown up, she goes to work in a munitions factory ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Ryan | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Joseph Cotten, Charles Winninger, Ludwig Stössel

Votes: 280

23. Up in Central Park (1948)

Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Musical

A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Dick Haymes, Vincent Price, Albert Sharpe

Votes: 268

24. Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 9 (1938)

10 min | Short, Documentary

A dwarf village on Hollywood's Wilshire Boulevard is shown; a bench is dedicated in honor of the late Lon Chaney; a visit to Leo Carrillo's new ranch is offered; Hollywood notables appear ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Fay Bainter, Edgar Bergen, Russell Birdwell, Walter Brennan

Votes: 167

25. Special Collector's Edition (2010–2015)

9 min | Comedy, History

A Special Collector's Edition.

Stars: David Díaz, Luis Rodrigo, Gabriel Fernández-Gil, Daniel Retuerta

Votes: 106

26. Love Is All (2000)

3 min | Animation, Short, Music

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Director: Oliver Harrison | Stars: Mia Buckton, Deanna Durbin

Votes: 95

27. The Shining Future (1944)

20 min | Short, Music, Musical

Star-studded propaganda short aimed at persuading Canadians to buy Victory Bonds. A 1960 family looks back at 1944.

Director: LeRoy Prinz | Stars: Olive Blakeney, Jack Carson, Benny Goodman, Bing Crosby

Votes: 76

28. Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941)

9 min | Documentary, Short

A "Kid Fashion Show" offers stars' offspring modeling moppet clothes, while proud parents look on; "Between Scenes at Republic Studio, " "Louella Parsons' Ranch" and "Redbook Award at Ciro's" round out the reel.

Director: Harriet Parsons | Stars: Harriet Parsons, Gracie Allen, Edward Arnold, Mary Astor

Votes: 24

29. A friend indeed (1938)

2 min | Short, Musical

"The American Red Cross presents Deanna Durbin in A Friend Indeed " WWII fund-raising short subject where Deanna Durbin dressed in nurse uniform appeals for donations and sings "Roses of Picardy"

Director: Joe Pasternak | Star: Deanna Durbin

30. Angels of Mercy (1940)

5 min | Short

Short film in support of the Red Cross showing civilian volunteers'work, radio and movie personalities at a fund-raising gala and encouraging recruitment. Deanna Durbin performs a song dedicated to the nurses.

Stars: Deanna Durbin, Don Ameche, Edward Arnold, Gene Autry

31. For Auld Lang Syne (1939)

Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short

The fourth in the series of shorts requesting funds from the theatre audience for the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital in Saranac, New York, preceded by the third one which was produced by ... See full summary »

Director: Burk Symon | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Raymond Massey, Will Rogers, Robert E. Sherwood

32. Special Collector's Edition (2010–2015)
Episode: El viaje a la Luna (2013)

22 min | Comedy, History

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Director: David Díaz | Stars: David Díaz, Serge Bromberg, Costa-Gavras, Jean-Benoît Dunckel