Can't Help Singing

I wanted to second the comments of Sdiner that "Can't Help Singing" is a lavishly produced and totally unappreciated color movie from the early 1940s. A local showing a couple of years ago brought out dozens of fans in Southern... Full review

"CAN'T HELP SINGING" - I first saw this charming colour film on television and treasured the tape recording for many years.My late mother liked Deanna and had a "Deanna Durbin" Hat and told me that she once visited Paris in... Full review

Can't Help Singing featuring Deanna Durbin singing those wonderful Jerome Kern-E.Y. Harburg songs either solo or with Robert Paige is nice musical entertainment. So entertaining it can even be forgiven some very illogical plot premises.Deanna's the daughter of a United... Full review

Deanna Durbin's one Technicolor movie gives her a decent showcase, and adds a Jerome Kern score plus plenty of good settings and scenery, to make for enjoyable light entertainment and pleasant viewing. Its pluses include Durbin's singing and the colorful... Full review

You don't need to be a Deanna Durbin fan to find this film delightful. It should appeal to anyone who enjoys traditional musicals like "Oklahoma" and "Showboat". Can't Help Singing is filled with humor and wit, played with a wink... Full review

For reasons beyond comprehension, "Can't Help Singing" is a film no one I know has even heard of, much less seen, probably because Deanna Durbin, a child actress of the mid-1930s who blossomed into an alluring,witty, beautiful young woman in... Full review

In a decade devoid of great (non-MGM, non-Rita Hayworth) color musicals, CAN'T HELP SINGING deserves a more important place among the celebrated. A female-driven western tale preceding HARVEY GIRLS, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, and CALAMITY JANE, while musically aping Broadway... Full review

Toward the end of her career at Universal, they finally splurged on technicolor and fancy scenery for an enjoyable, tuneful,colorful western-comedy-romance, 'Can't Help Singing' featuring a musical score by Jerome Kern. Deanna's father (Ray Collins) wants her to forget the... Full review

Pretty good comedy focuses on the Laughton-Durbin relationship at the expense of all else. Western musical is otherwise routine. Akim Tamaroff and Leonid Kinsky provide incongruous comic relief as inept Russian thieves. ... Full Review

Celebs who can't keep out of the recording studio - and some I'd like to see. Words to strike fear into the hearts of any music-loving soul: "Yes, as a matter of fact, I'm recording an album at the moment." ... Full Article

I n these pages last week I wondered whether adapting Marcel Proust was the best way for the talented Raul Ruiz to spend his time. ... Full Article