Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Universal, 1939, B/W, 88 minutes, ***½
Released March, 1939

When Penny discovers that both of her sisters are in love with the same man, she tries to fix things, but ends up with disatrous results. Deanna has four great numbers in this film.

Produced by: Joe Pasternak
Directed by: Henry Koster
Assistant Director: Frank Shaw
Original Screen Play: Bruce Manning, Felix Jackson
Musical Director: Charles Previn
Vocal Instructor: Andres de Segurola
Weber's "Invitation to the Dance"
Vocal Adaptation: Charles Henderson
Orchestrations: Frank Skinner
Art Director: Jack Otterson
Associate: John Ewing
Set Decorations: R. A. Gausman
Gowns: Vera West
Sound Supervisor: Bernard B. Brown
Technician: Joseph Lapis
Director of Photography: Joseph Valentine
Film Editor: Bernard W. Burton

Cast: Deanna Durbin [Penny "Mouse" Craig], Nan Grey [Joan Craig], Helen Parrish [Kay Craig], Charles Winninger [Judson Craig], Nella Walker [Mrs. Dorothy Craig], Robert Cummings [Harry Loren], William Lundigan [Richard Watkins], Ernest Cossart [Binns, the Butler], Felix Bressart [Penny's Music Teacher], Additional Cast: Thurston Hall [Senator], Mary Forbes [Mrs. Withers], Charles Previn [Conductor], Alphonse Martell [Headwaiter], Charles Coleman [Henry], Grady Sutton [Clarence], Mary Treen, Bess Flowers [Secretaries]

Musical Program: [0:02] Invitation to the Dance (instrumental arrangement played by Orchestra, danced by Party Guests, then sung by Deanna Durbin); [0:25] La Capinera (The Wren) (sung by Deanna Durbin); [0:37] Strauss Waltz (piano played on-screen by Bob Cummings); [0:48] The Last Rose of Summer (used in the opera MARTHA, sung by Deanna Durbin); [1:05] unidentified instrumental (played by Bob Cummings and his band); [1:24] Because (sung by Deanna Durbin)