Anne frank diarist hollywood fan and victim of nazi genocide.
Deanna durbin in anne frank attic.
The young jewish girl pasted durbin s picture to her bedroom wall in the achterhuis where the frank family hid during world war ii.
Deanna durbin robert stack and a third uncaptioned actor lewis howard from first love a version of cinderella deanna durbin alone sally eilers and a child in they made her a spy.
There are two pictures of durbin on anne s movie wall in the secret annex in amsterdam where frank and her family hid from the nazis.
Audiences of the 1930s flocked to them the way they did to the films of shirley temple.
Deanna durbin the movie singing star was born in 1921 and apparently still lives in a farmhouse outside paris.
Roosevelt on behalf of american youth to dissuade him from becoming involved in word war ii.
The photo can still be seen there today.
The warnings start to come out of my ears i haven t been sleeping well and don t feel like working anne wrote on 26 july 1943.
She retired from the movies at an early age and has resisted all efforts to bring.
There was a time when hollywood stars gave hope to those victims who were trapped in the whirlwind of oppression intolerance and genocide.
20 durbin s husband of almost 50 years charles david died in paris on march 1 1999.
Young girls in particular identified with durbin and tried to emulate her.
Deanna durbin was anne frank s favorite movie star.
In 1941 italian fascist dictator benito mussolini published an open letter to durbin in his official newspaper il popolo asking her to intercede with president franklin d.
Winston churchill watched her films before they were released to the general public in the uk while anne frank hung a picture of durbin on the wall of the attic in which she and her family hid.
She spoke of the deanna persona in the third person and considered the film character deanna durbin to be a byproduct of her youth and not her true identity.
Indeed she was a hit overseas as well as.
And deanna durbin was anne frank s favorite hollywood star.
The nerves of the people in hiding were frayed with the constant air raid alarms the sound of the german defence artillery bombings and air combat.
Winston churchill adored her movies.
