Editing Three Smart Girls (section)

==Reception==
The film was a huge box office hit. Writing for ''[[The Spectator]]'' in 1937, [[Graham Greene]] gave the film a mixed review, complaining about the sentimentality of the first half of the film, and noting that it is only with the appearance of Precious, her mother, the Hungarian Count, and the English nobleman in the second half of the film that the picture is made. While criticizing Durbin's "consciously girlish" performance, Greene praised the acting of Auer and claimed that the second half of the film was where "some welcome humour of an adult kind creep[s] tardily" into the film.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Greene|first= Graham|author-link= Graham Greene|date= 26 March 1937|title= Three Smart Girls/For Valour|journal= [[The Spectator]]}} (reprinted in: {{cite book |editor-last= Taylor|editor-first= John Russell |editor-link= John Russell Taylor|date= 1980|title= The Pleasure Dome|publisher= Oxford University Press|pages= 139–140|isbn=0192812866}})</ref>

===Awards===
''Three Smart Girls'' received [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations for Best Picture, Best Sound ([[Homer G. Tasker]]), and Best Original Story.<ref name="Oscars1937">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1937 |title=The 9th Academy Awards (1937) Nominees and Winners |access-date=August 8, 2011 |publisher=Oscars}}</ref>

===Legacy===
The film not only made Deanna Durbin a star, but it led to a number of imitations.<ref>HAYS OFFICE BATTLES TO MAINTAIN SCREEN PURITY, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb 1937: C1.</ref>