La Petite Téléphoniste

Titre original : For the Love of Mary

1948
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1h 30min

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Deanna Durbin, Jeffrey Lynn, and Edmond O'Brien in La Petite Téléphoniste (1948)

Classic Musical Political Drama Pop Musical Satire Comedy Musical Romance

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.A young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.A young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.

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Anecdotes
This was the last film appearance of Deanna Durbin. On August 22, 1948, two months after the picture wrapped, Universal-International announced a lawsuit brought against Miss Durbin for the sum of $87,083 in wages advanced to her. The actress settled the dispute by agreeing to stay on with the studio for an additional three pictures (including a project intended to be shot in Paris). Instead, Universal-International simply permitted Deanna's contract to expire on August 31, 1949. Upon leaving the studio after 13 years and 21 features, Deanna was paid $150,000 for the three abandoned films plus another $50,000 owed her for this movie. Miss Durbin then retired from all of show business. In subsequent years, producer Joe Pasternak, Deanna's early mentor at Universal, could not persuade Miss Durbin to resume her film career at MGM, and she would reject two prime female leads offered by the studio: in the Jack Cummings production of Cole Porter's Embrasse-moi, chérie (1953), and in the Pasternak filming of Sigmund Romberg's Le prince étudiant (1954).

Gaffes
In the kitchen at Gustav's, Mary is wearing earrings in some shots, but not in others.

Citations
David Paxton: "Young lady," said the mysterious diner, "do you know the meaning of the word bumbledon? Bumbledon is the pomposity of petty officials, little people in little jobs, who think the world will stop turning without them."

Bandes originales
On the Wings of a Song
(uncredited)
Music by Felix Mendelssohn
Adaptation by Edgar Fairchild
Lyrics by Sidney Miller
Sung by Deanna Durbin

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8/10

Deanna Durbin in top form

This is one of the last of Deanna Durbin's movies, and as I knew that by this time she was on the point of leaving the film industry I hesitated to watch it: I just did not expect much, as I assumed it would be evident that Durbin was at this point pretty much fed up with acting. What a mistake. This an intelligent comedy with a surprising ending and a very good cast. Durbin in particular is in top form; her comic timing is impeccable. For me, the high point is her rendition of a piece from the Barber of Seville that is intended for a baritone. She sings this with great good humour (and with a moustache) - it is an absolute lark; you are just left smiling and wishing it would go on. It is an eternal pity that Durbin stopped making films. Had she been around in the 1950s and -60s, Doris Day (almost exactly her age) would have had a much harder time establishing herself as the leading singing comedienne.