Show I Deanna f anna Soars to Stardom in Only Two Y Years By y MILTON HARKER HOLLYWOOD Dec 12 INS INS INS- If f you look first at a little six six- room oom bungalow in Palms and then at t a substantial two-story two home with a private swimming po pool l in inthe inthe the he exclusive Los Feliz hills you get a fair idea quickly of the phenomenal phenomenal phenomenal phen phen- year two-year rise of Deanna Durbin just turned 16 Palms is a little community in inthe inthe the he flats near the great Metro- Metro I Mayer Goldwyn-Mayer studio The Los feliz area is one of the towns town's swankiest so swanky in fact Lesie Leslie Leslie Les- Les lie ie Howard once abandoned search for or a home there because he couldn't get the seclusion he for or less than a month Deanna's parents James and Ada got jot what they wanted for less than half that because they are con- con They already are understood understood understood under under- stood to have laid up a nest egg of more than for their talented daughters daughter's future But theres there's far more in different living than han the actual 15 miles that separate separate separate sep sep- arate that bungalow where De Do- anna was discovered and the home in which she lives today It was Universals Universal's Three Smart Girls that lifted Deanna from the bottom to the top of the ladder in ill one fell swoop just around Christmas 1936 Its It's Universals Universal's Three Smart Girls Grow Up that she is beginning now Its It's only her fifth picture I months because she hadn't appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap in a picture Rufus le Ie Maire in the talent department there took a similar post at Universal and told Charles Rogers then studio head about Deanna She was promptly signed I Then M-G-M M promptly borrowed I her for a short picture to bring out Judy Garland It wasn't until Three Smart Girls came out that Mayer klayer was reported to have almost torn orn out his hair at the th mere thought bought of what his studio had lost ost You can understand his feeling Three Smart Girls cost a little littleover littleover littleover over to make and netted a b bit it t over money the studio needed badly then Deanna the girl who lived In Ina a little bungalow surrounded by scrub palms only a little more than two wo years ago now earns 1250 a week plus a bonus for each picture plus royalties from clothing and nd dolls and whatnot and whatever whatever what- what ever ver she wants to take on the radio adio She turned down a 1000 a week radio offer recently You can take this as a prediction Deanna will make a picture one of these hese days without a single song She's that good on actress Her recent recent reent re- re cent ent performance in That Certain Age was acclaimed by every Holywood Hollywood Holywood Hol- Hol lywood critic And you can take this too Deanna Deanna Deanna De De- De- De anna is growing up quickly She's five ive feet four and a half now She's almost a young lady If you dont don't think so look at the smartest girl in Three Smart Girls Grow Up |