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. Plot Three sisters 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. Cast Deanna Durbin as Penelope 'Penny' Craig Nan Grey as Joan Craig Helen Parrish as Katherine 'Kay' Craig Charles Winninger as Judson Craig Nella Walker as Mrs. Craig Robert Cummings as Harry Loren William Lundigan as Richard Watkins Ernest Cossart as Binns, the butler Felix Bressart as a music teacher Charles Coleman as Henry Production In August 1938 Bruce Manning and Felix Jackson were reported as working on a sequel.