Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Starring: Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey, Helen Parrish
Director: Henry Koster, Joe Pasternak, Felix Jackson
Writer: Felix Jackson, Bruce Manning
Producer: Joe Pasternak
Three Smart Girls Grow Up is a 1939 American musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster, written by Felix Jackson and Bruce Manning, and starring Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey, and Helen Parrish. Durbin and Grey reprise their roles from Three Smart Girls, and Parrish replaces Barbara Read in the role of the middle sister. Durbin would reprise her role once more in Hers to Hold.
Trivia
- In August 1938 Bruce Manning and Felix Jackson were reported as working on a sequel.
- In September, Barbara Read, who had been in the original, was considered "a little too grown up" for the sequel and was replaced by Helen Parrish, who had been in Mad About Music with Durbin.
- Cummings received a long-term contract from Universal after being cast in the film.
Previous Showings
5 Runs • 4 Festivals
1,527 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (May 7, 1939)
Original Run: May 7, 1939 (Sunday - Tuesday)
All runs on record (5):
- May 7, 1939 (Sunday - Tuesday)Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey, Helen Parrish
- December 8 - 10, 2012 · 554 ticketsDeanna Durbin Festivalw/ First Love
- August 28 - 30, 2013 · 436 ticketsSummer 2013w/ Three Smart Girls
- November 12 - 13, 2019 · 282 tickets80 Years Ago in This Theatre: The Films of 1939w/ The Hound of the Baskervilles
- November 30 - December 1, 2023 · 255 ticketsHoliday Favorites plus Deanna Durbinw/ Three Smart Girls