His Butler's Sister

"His Butler's Sister" is a delightful comedy with delayed romance and music. Deanna Durbin gets to play her actress role with a light comedy very well, instead of getting into singing right away.

"His Butler's Sister" is a frustrating story. Much of the story is very good, there is an excellent supporting cast and Deanna Durbin sings an amazingly different version of "Nessun Dorma"...

Sometimes revisiting things of the past can be disillusioning. I've found that to be the case particularly in reading stories which enchanted me when young, only to discover that they has lost all their magic.

Frank Borzage was one of the great directors and has left behind a solid body of artistic work. Deanna Durbin had an amazing screen presence that commands a following even 40 years after her retirement.

This is my favorite Deanna Durbin movie. She just glows in her role as Ann Carter.

This movie is a good example for the Old Classical Hollywood pictures! It has a lot of funny moments, nice, good-looking actors, incredible Durbin's charming voice and really nice and touching story!

Deanna Durbin was blossoming quite nicely into adulthood by the time His Butler's Sister was made. A pity that a whole bunch of talented people were wasted on this one.

One can't blame Deanna Durbin for the low quality of some of her films. Beautiful and with a lovely voice, she got stuck at Universal Studios, in "poverty row," a company that made few memorable musicals.

I find it amusing that this musical's "lack of realism" was so appalling to several of the viewers. Thinking of the great musicals - "Show Boat", "Oklahoma", "South Pacific", the list is enormous - and criticizing their plots for verisimilitude or realism is rather like looking for the meaning of life in a Warner Brothers cartoon!