Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Three Smart Girls Grow Up is a 1939 American musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster, written by Felix Jackson and Bruce Manning, and starring Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey, and Helen Parrish.
Durbin and Grey reprise their roles from "Three Smart Girls", and Parrish replaces Barbara Read in the role of the middle sister.
Durbin would reprise her role once more in "Hers to Hold".
Chhaya (film)
Chhaya (English: "Shadow") is a 1961 Bollywood film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
The star cast included Sunil Dutt and Asha Parekh.
Nirupa Roy won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award.
Music was composed by Salil Chaudhury and is noted for many songs including "Ya Keh De Hum Insaan Nahi" sung by Mohammed Rafi.
Abhishek Saxena
Abhishek Saxena is an Indian Bollywood and Punjabi film director who directed the movie Phullu.
The Phullu movie was released in theaters on 16 June 2017, in which film Sharib Hashmi is the lead role.
Apart from these, he has also directed Patiala Dreamz, this is a Punjabi film.
This film was screened in cinemas in 2014.
Henry Koster
Henry Koster( born Hermann Kosterlitz, May 1, 1905 – September 21, 1988) was a German- born film director.
He was the husband of actress Peggy Moran.
Smart Girls Don't Talk
Smart Girls Don't Talk is a 1948 crime film directed by Richard L. Bare and starring Virginia Mayo and Bruce Bennett.
Three Smart Girls
Three Smart Girls is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Barbara Read, Nan Grey, Deanna Durbin( her feature film debut), and Ray Milland.
The film's screenplay was written by Adele Comandini and Austin Parker, and is about three sisters who travel to New York City to prevent their father from remarrying.
The three plot to bring their divorced parents back together again.
It began an eight- year span of successful Deanna Durbin musicals and spawned two sequels," Three Smart Girls Grow Up" and" Hers to Hold".
Adele Comandini
Adele Comandini( April 29, 1898 – July 22, 1987) was an American screenwriter who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for" Three Smart Girls"( 1936).
Ben Palmer
Ben Palmer is a British film and television director who is known for being the director of" Bo' Selecta" and" The Inbetweeners".
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Hrishikesh Mukherjee( 30 September 1922 – 27 August 2006) was an Indian film director, editor and writer regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of Indian cinema, known for a number of films, including Anari," Satyakam
Chupke ChupkeAnupamaAnandAbhimaanGuddiGol MaalMajhli DidiChaitaliAashirwadBawarchiKissi Se Na Kehna", and" Namak Haraam."
Popularly known as" Hrishi- da", he directed 42 films during his career spanning over four decades, and is named the pioneer of the' middle cinema' of India.
Renowned for his social films that reflected the changing middle- class ethos, Mukherjee" carved a middle path between the extravagance of mainstream cinema and the stark realism of art cinema".
He also remained the chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification( CBFC) and of the National Film Development Corporation( NFDC).
The Government of India honoured him with the Dada Saheb Phalke Award in 1999 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2001.
He received the NTR National Award in 2001 and he also won eight Filmfare Awards.
Hers to Hold
Hers to Hold( aka Three Smart Girls Join Up) is a 1943 American romantic musical comedy film and is the third film in the unofficial" Three Smart Girls" trilogy.
In" Hers to Hold", Deanna Durbin reprises her role as Penny Craig, who is the only sister remaining at home.

Question: Which film has the director who died first, Chhaya (Film) or Three Smart Girls?
Answer: Three Smart Girls