Three Smart Girls (1936)
- Starring:
- Deanna Durbin, Binnie Barnes, (more)
- Director(s):
- Henry Koster
Synopsis of Three Smart Girls
Deanna Durbin, the teenaged soprano who literally saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy, made her feature-film debut in Three Smart Girls. Durbin, Nan Grey and Barbara Read play three wealthy young sisters, living with their divorced mother (Nella Walker) in Europe. The girls learn that their father (Charles Winninger) has made plans to remarry. Correctly sensing that the bride-to-be (Binnie Barnes) is a fortune hunter, the sisters head to Manhattan to save Daddy from himself. Durbin is the primary architect in reuniting her parents, but not before satisfying her fans with several arias. Three Smart Girls not only spawned a sequel (Three Smart Girls Grow Up), but even a 2-reel Three Stooges parody titled Three Dumb Clucks! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Three Smart Girls
- Deanna Durbin - Penny Craig
- Alice Brady - Mrs. Lyons
- Charles Winninger - Judson Craig
- Nan Grey - Joan Craig
- Hobart Cavanaugh - Wilbur Lamb
- Nella Walker - Dorothy Craig
- Albert Conti - Count's Friend
- John King - Bill Evans
- Franklin Pangborn - Jeweler
- Gladden James - Waiter
- Binnie Barnes - Donna Lyons
- Ray Milland - Lord Michael Stuart
- Mischa Auer - Count Arisztid
- Barbara Read - Kay Craig
- Lucile Watson - Trudel
- Lane Chandler - Cop
- Dennis O'Keefe - Club Extra
- Ernest Cossart - Binns the Butler
- John Hamilton - Sergeant
- Charles Coleman - Butler
- Director(s):
- Henry Koster
- Writer(s):
- Adele Comandini, Austin Parker
- Producer(s):
- Joe Pasternak
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