Deanna Durbin's movies are about innocence and sweetness. They're from a different time and a different place. Outside the movie house, there was Depression, poverty, war, death, and loss. Audiences then were willing to pretend, to enter into a game of escape. No one really thought that the world was like a Deanna Durbin movie, they just wanted to pretend it was for about an hour and a half.

Jeanine Basinger (born 3 February 1936) a film historian is Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies and Founder and Curator of The Cinema Archives at Wesleyan University Middletown Connecticut. Audio Commentaries
The Ghost and Mrs. Knopf (2007) (ISBN 978-1-4000-4130-5).

Basinger has been described as "one of the most important film scholars alive today. On February 11 2005 Jeanine Basinger was named to the board of directors of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Jeanine Basinger (born 3 February 1936) a film historian is Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies and Founder and Curator of The Cinema Archives at Wesleyan University Middletown Connecticut.