Three Smart Girls (1936)
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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, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Deanna Durbin - Penny Craig
- Alice Brady - Mrs. Lyons
- Charles Winninger - Judson Craig
- Mischa Auer - Count Arisztid
- Hobart Cavanaugh - Wilbur Lamb
- Nella Walker - Dorothy Craig
- Dennis O'Keefe - Club Extra
- John Hamilton - Sergeant
- Albert Conti - Count's Friend
- Franklin Pangborn - Jeweler
- Binnie Barnes - Donna Lyons
- Ray Milland - Lord Michael Stuart
- Nan Grey - Joan Craig
- Barbara Read - Kay Craig
- Lucile Watson - Trudel
- Gladden James - Waiter
- Lane Chandler - Cop
- John King - Bill Evans
- Charles Coleman - Butler
- Ernest Cossart - Binns the Butler
- Director(s):
- Henry Koster
- Writer(s):
- Adele Comandini, Austin Parker
- Producer(s):
- Joe Pasternak
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