Gloria Harkinson's mother an actress eager to maintain her glamorous mystique has tucked her away in a Swiss boarding school. The creative teenager realizes that she can not speak about her mom to anyone there. Because she has no living father either she decides to invent one -- a rugged adventurer no less. Her imaginary pop becomes a ""problem "" however when Gloria's friends demand to meet the heroic fellow. So she finds a vacationing composer to fill ""dad's"" shoes!
The smash hit sequel to Deanna Durbin's debut film 'Three Smart Girls' THREE SMART GIRLS GROW UP saw Deanna once more taking on the role that made her name and singing her signature song 'Because'.Deanna stars as Penny Craig the youngest of three sisters. When the handsome and debonair Richard Watkins (William Lundigan) proposes to her sister Joan everyone in the Craig household is delighted except for Penny's other sister Kay. She was secretly in love with Richard too...Determined to help young Penny turns to the family butler for advice. He says that Kay will forget all about Richard when she meets another 'tall dark and handsome' man. Never one to duck a challenge Penny finds just such a man to court her sister Kay - Harry Loren. Only Harry then falls madly in love with Joan... and everyone thinks Penny secretly loves Harry! Will the course of true love ever run smoothly in the Craig Household?Apart from the captivating 'Because' THREE SMART GIRLS also sees Deanna Durbin performing three other charming musical numbers 'Invitation to the Dance' 'La Capinera' and 'The Last Rose of Summer'.
In this sweeping pioneer adventure a courageous young scout leads hundreds of settlers across treacherous cliffs through brutal snowstorms Indian attacks and buffalo stampedes to their destiny out west. Along the way he loses his heart to a beautiful pioneer woman and never stops trying to win her love. Tyrone Power co-stars in this visually spectacular epic from Raoul Walsh.
War Of The Wildcats (Dir. Albert S. Rogell 1943): A cowboy battles with an oil tycoon for drilling rights on Indian lands in Oklahoma during the oil boom days. In Old California (Dir. William McGann 1942): Tom Craig (John Wayne) is a recent arrival to Sacramento California where he is trying to set up his pharmacy. He unfortunately finds out that the town is owned by political boss Britt Dawson (Albert Dekker) who is getting protection money from the townspeople. The town boss meets his match when he tries to frame Craig with poisoned medicine but Craig is ready for a fight.
During the 1930s Deanna Durbin became America's favourite box-office star thus almost saving Universal films from bankruptcy. She retired at age 26 after making just 21 films. Five of those films are released on this box set: 'First Love' 'Three Smart Girls Grow Up' 'Can't Help Singing' 'The Amazing Miss Holliday' and 'For The Love of Mary'.
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