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Two weeks after her husband, Vaughn Paul, quit as associate producer at Universal, Deanna Durbin was suspended by the studio without pay. Universal said she had refused to come to work unless she could approve her stories, pick her cast and director: Hollywood said she was miffed because the studio had kept Paul idle. Since 1936 she has made Universal some $15,000,000, herself nearly $200,000 a year, but if the studio wishes it can keep her idle and payless until 1943, when her contract expires.

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