Legacy
Deanna Durbin has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1722 Vine Street.
Frank Tashlin's Warner Bros. cartoon The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos (1937) contains an avian caricature of Deanna Durbin called "Deanna Terrapin".
Durbin's name found its way into the introduction to a song written by satirical writer Tom Lehrer in 1965. Prior to singing "Whatever Became of Hubert?", Lehrer said that Vice President Hubert Humphrey had been relegated to "those where-are-they-now columns: Whatever became of Deanna Durbin, and Hubert Humphrey, and so on."
She is mentioned in Richard Brautigan's novel Trout Fishing in America, when the narrator claims to have seen one of her movies seven times, but can't recall which one.
The acclaimed Indian-Bengali film director, Satyajit Ray, in his acceptance speech for an Oscar (Honorary - Lifetime Achievement) in 1992, mentioned Deanna Durbin as the only one of the three cinema personalities he recalled writing to when young who had acknowledged his fan letter with a reply. The other two were Ginger Rogers and Billy Wilder, neither of whom replied.
Durbin was well known in Winnipeg, Canada (her place of birth) as "Winnipeg's Golden Girl".
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 14661536)