Editing One Hundred Men and a Girl (section)

===Background===
"Everybody said you can't top ''Three Smart Girls''", said Pasternak years later. "I said you can top anything as long as you're honest, you don't fool yourself, you get the right subject and you create a public taste for it."<ref>{{Cite news|title=Pasternak: The Man Who Out-Disneyed Disney: JOE PASTERNAK|author=Scheuer, Philip K.|date=Jan 9, 1980|work=Los Angeles Times|page=g12}}</ref>

The film was originally called ''120 Men and One Girl'' and was announced in December 1936.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Gladys George to Be Featured for M.-G.-M. in 'They Gave Him a Gun'|work=New York Times|date=Dec 21, 1936|page=18}}</ref>  It was based on an original story and screenplay by Hans Kraly.<ref>{{Cite news|title=NEWS OF THE SCREEN|work=New York Times|date=Feb 10, 1937|page=18}}</ref>

[[Leopold Stokowski]] was, at the time of the film's release, co-conductor of the [[Philadelphia Orchestra]] with [[Eugene Ormandy]]. Political and artistic differences with the orchestra's board had already led Stokowski to allow Ormandy to assume a greater leadership role at the orchestra and eventually would lead Stokowski to break with the orchestra entirely. This might explain why the city in which the film is set, and by extension Stokowski's "regular" orchestra, is never positively identified in the film.  The music was recorded in multi-channel [[stereophonic sound]] but released in monaural sound; three years later Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra appeared in the first feature film to be presented in stereo, ''[[Fantasia (1940 film)|Fantasia]]''. Jane Barlow, ballerina and a student of Nijinska, was a body double for Deanna Durbin in this film.<ref>{{Cite news|author=Yoshida, Yukihiko|title=Jane Barlow and Witaly Osins, ballet teachers who worked in postwar Japan, and their students|work=Pan-Asian Journal of Sports & Physical Education|volume=3 (Sep)|year=2012}}</ref>

Casting Stokowski was reportedly Durbin's idea.<ref>{{Cite news|title=DEANNA DURBIN, SPINSTER|author=Eustace, Edward J.|date=Sep 12, 1937|work=New York Times|page=X3}}</ref> Stokowski signed to make the film in February 1937.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Actress Brags of Ski Tumble; Sport Banned|author=Shaffer, George|date=Feb 2, 1937|work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=28}}</ref> His fee was reportedly $80,000. Paramount objected saying they had signed a contract with the conductor but it turned out this was only verbal.<ref>{{cite news|title=NEWS OF THE SCREEN: Paramount to Film More Sagas-Miss Durbin Gets Guild Award-Holiday Brings Capacity Business Of Local Origin|date=Feb 15, 1937|page=12}}</ref> Filming started in March.