Three Smart Girls
Starring: Ray Milland, Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey
Director: Henry Koster
Writer: Adele Comandini
Producer: Joe Pasternak
Three Smart Girls is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Barbara Read, Nan Grey, Deanna Durbin (her feature film debut), and Ray Milland. The film's screenplay was written by Adele Comandini and Austin Parker, and is about three sisters who travel to New York City to prevent their father from remarrying. The three plot to bring their divorced parents back together again.
Trivia
- Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture; Academy Award for Best Story; Academy Award for Best Sound.
- The film was based on an original story.
- The film was produced by Harry John Brown who had recently joined Universal from Warners.
- Joe Pasternak wanted Judy Garland for Durbin's role, but Garland's home studio, MGM, wouldn't loan her out for the picture.
Previous Showings
10 Runs • 8 Festivals
Original Billings: 1 run (March 12, 1937)
Original Run: March 12, 1937 (Friday - Saturday)
All runs on record (10):
- March 12, 1937 (Friday - Saturday)Deanna Durbin, Binnie Barnes
- March 24, 2001Winter 2001w/ One in a Million
- June 22 - 24, 2011Musicalsw/ Song of the Open Road
- January 4 - 7, 2012Deanna Durbin Festivalw/ For the Love of Mary
- December 1 - 3, 2012Deanna Durbin Festivalw/ One Hundred Men and a Girl
- January 4 - 7, 2013January 2013 More Classics from Universal Picturesw/ For the Love of Mary
- August 28 - 30, 2013Summer 2013w/ Three Smart Girls Grow Up
- September 15 - 16, 2014Summer 2014w/ Girl Crazy
- July 31 - August 2, 2019Summer 2019w/ It Started with Eve
- November 30 - December 1, 2023Holiday Favorites plus Deanna Durbinw/ Three Smart Girls Grow Up