Starring Deanna Durbin, Joseph Cotten, Charles Winninger, Ludwig Stossel, Nella Walker,
Gus Schilling, Samuel S. Hinds, Evelyn Ankers
Directed by Frank Ryan

Print: black/white
Runtime: 94 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her 'Three Smart Girls'
films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson
and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older
playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the elusive Morley as
her husband. Only when he's on about to be shipped overseas with the Army Air Corps does
Morley propose to the persistent Penelope. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of 'Begin
the Beguine' and the 'Seguidilla' from Carmen, and a captivating sequences wherein
highlights from Durbin's 1930s vehicles are shown, ostensibly as home movies!