DEANNA DURBIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1941, Page 9

DEANNA DURBIN

FINANCIAL RESULTS FROM FILMS. Deanna Duroin’s eight films for Universal have accounted for an outlay of roughly £ 1.500,000. They have brought back to Hollywood roughly £4.500,000 and have yielded at a Conservative estimate over one hundred per cent net profit. Her first starring film, "Three Smart Girls." cost about £60.000 at the time and brought in a gross vield of £400,000. For no apparent reason, her second. “100 Men and a Girl." cost £135,000. but the big rise in cost didn't matter much when it brought in £500.000, "Mad About Mus-c." in fact, soared higher still in cost, running into £lOO,000. but it took in at the box office no less than £525.000, so its backers didn't worry. All the same, when Mr Pasternak spent a mere £127,000 on "That Cer!.'iin Age," and brought them bar': takings of over £500.009, they possibly began to realise that it was Deanna and her voice wo were attracled by. rather than the impressive trimmings Hollywood is so apt to set up around a successful star. "Three Smart Girls Grow Up" was I produced for £150.000 and m spite of i tailing foreign markets brought back | £380.000. i "First Love," which cost £ 165,000 J took in at the box offices about £360.-i 000 and "It's a Date.” realised under' the shadows of European war. brought t in £310,000, thus just over doubling its total cost of £167,000. Deanna Durbin now earns over £ 1000 weekly. __________