Three Smart Girls

Deanna Durbin, Universal Pictures answer to Judy Garland and Shirley Temple, first achieved stardom in the 1936 film Three Smart Girls, directed by Henry Koster. Credited with helping Universal survive the economic depression, the film generated two lesser watched sequels, Three Smart Girls Grow Up and Hers to Hold.

Sisters Penny, Joan and Kay Craig, played by Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey and Barbara Read, respectively, are living in Switzerland with their mother when they learn that their father is remarrying. Wanting to have their parents back together, the girls go to their father's New York City home, determined to keep him from marrying young gold-digger Donna Lyons, played by Binnie Barnes. They have a lot of assistance from their father's household staff in their schemes to reunite their parents.http://www.sover.net/~ozus/threesmartgirls.htm

• Deanna Durbin as 'Penny' Craig

• Nan Grey as Joan Craig

• Barbara Read as Kay Craig

• Nella Walker as Dorothy Craig

• Charles Winninger as Judson Craig

• Binnie Barnes as Donna Lyons

"An efficient, entertaining atrocity."—Dave Kehr, Chicago Readerhttp://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/three-smart-girls/Film?oid=1049911

"...has a movie magical quality that makes you feel better for seeing it. There's a certain genuineness that overcomes its dumb story line with wit and energy, that might even pull in the more hardened viewer."—Dennis Schwatrz, Ozus' World Movie Reviewshttp://www.sover.net/~ozus/threesmartgirls.htm