Hers to Hold

1943 94 min Drama, Music, Romance

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. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of "Begin the Beguine" and the "Seguidilla" from Carmen, and a captivating sequence that includes highlights from Durbin's earlier films, presented as home movies!

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1 nomination

• 1943 MUSIC (Song) (Say A Pray'r For The Boys Over There) Herb Magidson, Jimmy McHugh

director Frank Ryan

writer Lewis R. Foster