Tonight's Movie: Three Smart Girls (1936) - A Universal Blu-ray Review

There are few things which make me happier than Deanna Durbin movies, so I'm thrilled that her first full-length feature film, THREE SMART GIRLS (1936), was just released on Blu-ray.Given how much I love Durbin, I've been upgrading her films from DVD to Blu-ray as they're released, and I'm thrilled that this important movie in her filmography finally joins many of her other titles on Blu-ray.As a matter of fact, my earliest Durbin viewing, including this film, was on VHS; I first saw THREE SMART GIRLS on video in 2008.In the intervening years I've also seen it on DVD, and in 2018 I was fortunate to see THREE SMART GIRLS in 35mm at the TCM Classic Film Festival.Bob Koster, son of the film's director, Henry Koster, told some interesting stories at that screening, including that Deanna lived with the Koster family during filming so that his father could coach her in the evenings.He also said that his father "guilt tripped" Deanna about the need for the film to be a success so he wouldn't…