Deanna Durbin started as an adolescent and then the movie moguls tried to minimize her age. They got her down to looking 12 at one, point in the game, but she persisted in developing, so they gave up the contest and tried to find some role for her in which she could be 20. Unfortunately, she had an incomparably better voice when she looked 12, and nobody has taught her how to act more than 12 as yet--Sol Lesser was too successful with his first lesson.
Honest Injun, it's about time somebody told him that these situation comedies without situation and without comedy are getting on audiences' nerves. Deanna Durban is a very nice kid who once had a very beautiful soprano voice, but the voice has either lost some of its touch or Deanna has just become very boring. At any rate, she isn't cute. And, to help matters, she kisses like Shirley Temple.
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