[1] His favorite band was Tommy Dorsey, and his singing style reflected admiration for its leading singer, Frank Sinatra.
After the war, a Paramount Pictures talent finder discovered Deauville when he saw him singing in a small theater play in Hollywood.
In the following years, he worked with many great groups of that time, and as a solo artist he sang at shows such as Ted Mack Family TV and The Colgate Comedy Hour.
Deauville's vocal career was not very long because in September 1956[2][3] he was in a car accident, then fell victim to polio and so was paralyzed from the neck down, only a few months before the Salk vaccine was invented.
This show became so popular that Deauville was able to find work in the film dubbing industry for Twentieth Century-Fox, Warner Brothers and Allied Artists.