Binnie Barnes

Deanna Durbin's engaging feature film debut, Three Smart Girls, showcases the teen singing sensation in a heartwarming musical comedy that was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award. Penny Craig (Deanna Durbin) is a high-spirited girl who conspires with her two sisters to reunite their divorced parents. Her millionaire father, however, has plans of his own to remarry a beautiful socialite. High jinks, hilarity, and wonderful songs ensue as the sisters let nothing (and no one!) stand in their way to break up the romance and bring their father home. Featuring a stellar cast that also includes Charles Winninger, Binnie Barnes, Alice Brady, Ray Milland and Mischa Auer, the film made Deanna Durbin a household name and endeared her to millions of movie-going fans.

Two of Gardner's men catch up with the fleeing Gregorys, and cunningly bring them to the Ridpath Sanitarium where Gregory's claim to be a kidnap victim is treated as mental illness.

With the assistance of Danby and Henry, a quickly recovered Craig sets a trap for The Eagle. When the mystery villain arrives at the carnival, he is shocked to find Craig and the villain’s identity is revealed.

Poking around at the Evans Aero Corp., Craig comes across the kidnapped Nathan Gregory, but is no closer to discovering the identity of The Eagle.

When another skywriting plane lands without a trace of a pilot, Jean discovers that it is in fact radio controlled by The Eagle. But before the girl can escape, the mystery villain pulls a lever and the plane takes off.

Major Evans believes that Jean knows the whereabouts of her father and suggests calling the police. Using subterfuge, Craig ushers Jean out of the room but instead of escaping, the girl is kidnapped by a masked man.

Craig McCoy remains a captive of The Eagle's gang. By using trickery, however, the young flyer sends Boyle and Moore on a wild goose chase and then threatens Green to reveal the truth of the much vaunted bill of sale.

Craig and Jean survive the attack from The Eagle and who may or may not be Jean's father Nathan Gregory. But Craig instead suspects The Eagle to be one of the directors of the Evans Aero Corp. and that Gregory has been kidnapped.

Craig points a finger at a very suspicious Major Evans, but the wily director instead accuses Green. Through trickery and deception, the bill of sale that may reveal the identity of The Eagle is passed back and forth.

In 1918, a member of his own squadron shot down an ace flyer known as the Eagle in the mistaken belief that he was the enemy. Fourteen years later, a threatening note demanding satisfaction arrives at the Evans Aero Corp..

The gang captures an unconscious Craig, whose automobile has crashed. Back at the carnival, the police are searching for Gregory and the carnival operator manages to escape through a magician's trick cabinet.

Chapter seven reveals the carnival's vengeance to be a mere ruse and the performers instead confront Gardner, The Eagle's chief henchman. But despite threats from the strong man, he refuses to reveal the identity of his boss.