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Three Smart Girls Grow Up is a american film of genre Drama directed by Joe Pasternak released in USA on 24 march 1939 with Deanna Durbin

Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)

Three Smart Girls Grow Up
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Released in USA 24 march 1939
Length 1h30
Directed by ,    ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama,    Musical theatre,    Musical,    Romance
Rating68% 3.4383653.4383653.4383653.4383653.438365

Three Smart Girls Grow Up is a 1939 American musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey, and Helen Parrish. Written by Felix Jackson and Bruce Manning, the film is about 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 fiance, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker. 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.

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Les trois sœurs Craig croient que la vie leur sera douce maintenant qu'elles ont réussi à réunir leurs parents. Mais voilà que Kay tombe amoureuse de Richard, le fiancé de Joan. Les choses se compliquent lorsque la cadette, Penny, se met à la recherche d'un nouveau petit-ami pour sa sœur Joan de façon que Kay et Richard puissent demeurer ensemble...

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