>> I will shout it from the rooftops, I love Deanna Durbin pictures.  >>>

Amen, brother. I'm especially fond of her early pics helmed by Henry Koster. What charm, what grace, what pipes.

As an adult, she was surprisingly credible as a hardened tootsie opposite wacko mama's boy Gene Kelly in the Siodmak noir Christmas Holiday.

R.I.P.