Three Smart Girls (1936) is about three sisters, Joan, Kay, and Penny, who live with their divorced mother in Switzerland. When their father, a wealthy banker, plans to marry a gold-digger, the girls devise a plan to reunite their parents. They travel to New York City to stop the wedding and bring their parents back together. Along the way, they encounter mistaken identities, rekindled romance, and comedic misunderstandings.
In Something in the Wind (1947), a case of mistaken identity ensues when a disc jockey is assumed to be the beneficiary of a large sum of money. As he navigates this new world of wealth, comedy and romance unfold in this delightful musical comedy.
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the elusive Morley as her husband. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of "Begin the Beguine" and the "Seguidilla" from Carmen, and a captivating sequence that includes highlights from Durbin's earlier films, presented as home movies!
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