Deanna Durbin Sweetheart Pack (Three Smart Girls, Something in the Wind, First Love)
A Golden Voice - An Unforgettable Legend!
The girl they called "Winnipeg's Sweetheart," Deanna Durbin, captured the hearts of movie fans everywhere with her irresistible charm and golden voice. From her film debut in 1939 to the release of her last film in 1944, Deanna was an international superstar and box-office sensation. Then at the height of her fame, she walked away from Hollywood forever. Now her movie magic lives on in The Deanna Durbin Sweetheart Pack.
This disc includes:
Three Smart Girls (1936)
Something in the Wind (1947)
First Love (1939)
Member Reviews
A Real Treat - fairweather
A wonderful gem to discover Deanna Durbin shines in the Smart Girls title as one of a set of three innocent girls raised by their mother who find their divorced daddy is about to be married and set off from Europe to America to stop the travesty. With help from the hired help and the handsome young solicitor their father has, they try to prevent the gold digger from getting dear old Dad. The funny sequence where they hire someone to play a richer man (she is only after Daddy for his money) and end up mistaking their "actor" for a real life young and handsome millionaire has hilarity and romantic consequences for one of the three. The second title Something in the Wind is a musical about a girl who is mistaken for being a mistress of a tycoon who passed away, and after insisting she is not, the rich family kidnaps her to bring her to terms. Annoyed and willing to teach these rich brats a lesson, she warms to playing a game with them while remaining stubborn and difficult on her "terms." Colluding with the talented younger son who figures out the game she is playing and how she is innocent of the charges, she agrees with him that she will get the older son's fiancee to turn away from him so the younger son can marry her since the younger son is in love with the older son's fiancee. Again, romantic intrigues and comedy make this title fun to watch. Both were sweet gems and "family fare" (for those who can take the plotlines outlined above) I would recommend this title for those who enjoy comedy, romance films, song and dance, good acting and a fun storyline.First Love - Port_Moresby
Cute modern-day version of Cinderella, with the lovely Deanna Durbin as an orphaned high-school graduate who goes to live with her rich uncle and aunt in Manhattan. The couple have been her benefactors while she’s been growing up at her boarding school in the country, but now that she lives with them she finds herself being made a servant by her scatterbrained aunt, lazy cousin Walter and evil cousin Barbara. When she meets handsome tycoon Robert Stack she immediately falls in love with him, not for his money the way all the other girls in town are after him, but for his…well, it’s hard to say what really, since Stack’s character is about as deep as corrogated cardboard. Still, it’s hard to resist the trappings: Durbin goes to the ball despite Barbara’s interference, all because she’s kind to the servants and they love her too much to not help her out. Featuring a few musical numbers, Durbin’s trademark anglification of classical music using her exceptionally trained operatic voice, this is one of her lesser efforts but still very enjoyable (particularly for the demographic it’s aimed at, mainly teenage girls who can’t think).
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A Real Treat - fairweather
A wonderful gem to discover Deanna Durbin shines in the Smart Girls title as one of a set of three innocent girls raised by their mother who find their divorced daddy is about to be married and set off from Europe to America to stop the travesty. With help ...First Love - Port_Moresby
Cute modern-day version of Cinderella, with the lovely Deanna Durbin as an orphaned high-school graduate who goes to live with her rich uncle and aunt in Manhattan. The couple have been her benefactors while she’s been growing up at her boarding school in ...