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Three Smart Girls (1936)

★ 6.6Approved84 minDirector: Henry Koster

1936 film by Henry Koster

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.

It began an eight-year span of successful Deanna Durbin musicals and spawned two sequels, Three Smart Girls Grow Up and Hers to Hold.

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is Three Smart Girls about?
Three Smart Girls (1936) — The three Craig sisters, in Switzerland with their ten-years-divorced mother, run away to New York to prevent their father from marrying calculating socialite Donna Lyons. The overpowering vivacity of the Smart Girls (nominal ages 14-20) sweeps all before it, but a romantic compl
Is Three Smart Girls based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is Three Smart Girls scary?
Content rating: Approved. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.