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...smartest comedy since "Theodora Goes Wild," Universal's "Three Smart Girls" is a titillating tale of youthful love, parental love, and middle-age love. Starring a pleasant-looking, dimpled girl of fourteen, the picture moves swiftly and grandly to a fairy tale climax. Deanns Durbin is the most natural, unaffected child star that any Hollywood studio has turned out in several years. Her acting must satisfy even the very critical, although her singing occasionally lacks force...
Frolicking happily by the shore of a Swiss lake, the Craig children, Penny (Deanna Durbin), Joan (Nan Grey) and Kay (Barbara Read), find their mother in tears over the news that their father, a New York banker, divorced ten years ago, is planning to marry again. Instead of laughing at this news as sophisticated children might well do, the small Craigs react like little Peppers. They decide the situation demands action. Borrowing fare from their nurse, they embark for New York, arrive when Judson Craig (Charles Winninger) is sitting down to lunch with his inamorata, Precious (Binnie Barnes). From...
...heroine, instead of seeming an obnoxious little prig more terrifying than Boris Karloff in a fright-wig, possesses instead the appeal of a talented and attractive child is due principally to the actress who has now replaced Karloff as Universal's outstanding attraction, 14-year-old Deanna Durbin...
Prettily dimpled, with a mature lyric soprano voice that made her a sensation on the radio when she sang on Eddie Cantor's hour this autumn, Edna May Durbin was born in Winnipeg, brought up in Los Angeles where her father is a broker. She started taking singing lessons at 11. Last year her voice caught the ear of Hollywood Agent-Manager Jack Sherrill who put her under contract, got her a test with M-G-M for a picture that was never made. Her possibilities impressed Associate Producer Rufus LeMaire. When he joined Universal, he persuaded...
Whether Deanna Durbin will really be as much of a drawing card as Universal expects is currently as perplexing to Hollywood as whether she is its oldest child actress or its youngest adult star. Cinemactress Durbin, currently in New York on vacation, owns three pet turtles, a black dog named Tippy, collects paper matches for souvenirs. She takes singing lessons from Andres de Segurola, piano lessons from Frances Minnerick, schools with a tutor in the studio, is nicknamed "Candy," likes to swim and ride. When she goes back to Hollywood she will live in a new house overlooking the Universal...