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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
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".
Premise.
The film is about three sisters who believe life is going to be
borrow Garland from MGM, but Garland was not available at the time. When Pasternak learned that Durbin was no longer with MGM, he cast her in the film instead. "Three Smart Girls" was a success and established Durbin as a star. With Pasternak producing for Universal, Durbin starred in a succession of successful musical films, including "One Hundred Men and a Girl" (1937), "Mad About Music" (1938), "That Certain Age" (1938), "Three Smart Girls Grow