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April 26, 2012

Patrick The Great (1945): Durbin's Hand-Me-Down to Donald O'Connor

Deanna Durbin's playful romp It's A Date (1940) at Universal Studios is an original story written by Ralph Block, Jane Hall and Frederick Kohner. MGM famously remade the vehicle for Jane Powell in Nancy Goes to Rio (1950). Between these two releases, in 1945, another remake was released from Durbin's studio - Patrick The Great. It's the early 1940s and vaudevillian actor, dancer and movie sensation, Donald O'Connor, is joining the war effort....