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Actor: Charles Winninger, Evelyn Ankers
Primary Contributor: Deanna Durbin
Primary Contributor: Joseph Cotten
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Black & White, Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 94 unknown-units
Studio: Nostalgia Home Video

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Movie Review: Deanna touches the heart with wartime romance
Summary: 4 Stars

HERS TO HOLD was the third and final installment of the "Three Smart Girls" series. Deanna Durbin rose to fame in 1936 when she first played Penny Craig in "Three Smart Girls", which was followed in 1939 with "Three Smart Girls Grow Up". In 1943, with the world at war, Durbin once again took up the persona of her most famous movie role, but this time the series took a dramatic turn with it's hard-hitting storyline detailing Penny's first real romance with an army pilot. The movie again reunites Durbin with her screen 'parents' Charles Winninger and Nella Walker.

As the movie opens, society personality Penny Craig (Deanna Durbin) is in a city hospital donating blood, where she meets airforce pilot Bill Morley (Joseph Cotten). After an amusing comedy of errors, the two hook up again at an army canteen where their romance really takes off. Soon Penny is volunteering for work at Bill's army base, but the courtship hits a rough spot when Bill reveals his desire to enter the airforce. Penny frantically pleads for her father (Charles Winninger) to use his heavy influence in preventing Bill's enrolment, but eventually Penny must accept his fate and stay strong until he returns home...

HERS TO HOLD is the movie where Durbin's beloved character of Penny finally grows up. With her two older sisters married and out of the picture, the third "Three Smart Girls" title ties up the whole saga nicely with the dramatic war years providing an effective backdrop for the action. Joseph Cotten's chemistry with Durbin was so successful that gossip columnists of the day suspected them of carrying their onscreen romance into their private lives, something which the happily married Cotten vehemently denied.

Durbin dazzles in a wardrobe designed by Adrian, and performs such great numbers as Bizet's "Seguidilla", Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" and Amy Woodford-Finden's "Kashmiri Love Song". She also introduces the stirring wartime ballad "Say a Pray'r for the Boys Over There".

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Summary of Hers To Hold

Well-to-do debutante Penny Craig (Deanna Durbin) won't take no for an answer! An overly amorous pilot (Joseph Cotten) gets a classic case of cold feet when Penny falls for his charms but he's suddenly called up for military service overseas. Durbin and Cotten's sweetly sublime romantic jostling is enlivened by the leading lady's delightful musical numbers. Evelyn Ankers, Charles Winninger also star. 94 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English.

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