Sisters Play Sisters In Another Curtiz Hit

Very good '40s film overshadowed by a shot to stardom

Pretty good for a production code era pre WWII sentimental journey...

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

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I wouldn't win first prize if I were the only entry in the contest.

Mathematically speaking, I think you'd stand a fine chance.

The fates, the destinies, whoever they are that decide what we do or don't get.

They've been at me now nearly a quarter of a century. No let-up. First they said, "Let him do without parents. He'll get along." Then they decided, "He doesn't need any education. That's for sissies." Then right at the beginning, they tossed a coin. "Heads he's poor, tails he's rich." So they tossed a coin... with two heads. Then, for a finale, they got together on talent. "Sure," they said, "let him have talent. Not enough to let him do anything on his own, anything good or great. Just enough to let him help other people. It's all he deserves." Well, you put all this together and you get Michael Bolgar.

Priscilla Lane and Jeffrey Lynn in Four Daughters (1938)

Lola Lane, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, and Gale Page in Four Daughters (1938)

Lola Lane and Priscilla Lane in Four Daughters (1938)

John Garfield and Priscilla Lane in Four Daughters (1938)

Lola Lane, Priscilla Lane, and Rosemary Lane in Four Daughters (1938)

Claude Rains, Lola Lane, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, and Gale Page in Four Daughters (1938)

Claude Rains

John Garfield

Jeffrey Lynn

Julius J. Epstein

Lenore J. Coffee

Fannie Hurst

A musician is blessed with four musical prodigies, all girls, and cursed when a troubled young composer enters the lives of his daughters.

Michael Curtiz

Four Daughters

Sure it&apos;s a soap opera--but a good one!

Story about a widowed father (Claude Rains) bringing up his four daughters. Emma (Gale Page) is loved by big hunky Ernest (Dick Foran). Thea (Lola Lane) is romanced by an old but wealthy man. Kay (Rosemary Lane) wants to become a singer. Ann (Priscilla Lane) is a romantic. Drop dead handsome Felix Deitz (Jeffrey Lynn), a business associate of their father, comes to stay with them. All the sisters fall in love with him. Then tough cynical Mickey (John Garfield) enters the picture...

Very entertaining movie was a big hit and nominated for five Academy Awards. It&apos;s beautifully directed by Michael Curitz, has a pretty good (if predictable) script and a VERY attractive cast (especially Lynn). Also this was John Garfield&apos;s first film and made him a star. This was so popular there were three or four sequels (which I never saw). This is an engrossing, entertaining, big budget soap opera--well worth seeing.

Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, has passed on his love of music to his four early adult daughters - Thea, Emma, Kay and Ann - who live with him and his sister, the girls&apos; Aunt Etta, in the long time family home. Of the four, Kay has the greatest promise as a musical performer, specifically as a singer. Theirs is a loving family, however much the girls exasperate their father with their love of popular music, since he loves only the classics, most specifically Beethoven. The girls support each other however they can, but each is an individual with her own distinct personality and wants, including the type of man each wants as a husband. Practical but deep in her heart romantic Emma has long been courted by their next door neighbor, unassuming florist Ernest Talbot, and clever Thea wants to be Mrs. Ben Crowley, he a wealthy up and coming banker with prospects. Only the youngest, the fun loving Ann, states that she doesn&apos;t want to get married. Their collective lives change with the entry into their lives of two men. The first is Adam&apos;s old friend&apos;s son, popular music composer and conductor Felix Deitz, who easily gets a job at the foundation using his natural and sincere charm which he applies to all equally. Many women misconstrue that charm for romantic interest. The second is Felix&apos;s acquaintance, musician Mickey Borden, who he hires to orchestrate his latest composition. Mickey has a chip on his shoulders about what life has dealt him, which he uses in turn as a reason for living a reckless life. The two men make each of the four daughters reexamine what she thinks she wants in life, or more precisely who she wants, which for all may be the same person.

Official Trailer

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Story about a widowed father (Claude Rains) bringing up his four daughters. Emma (Gale Page) is loved by big hunky Ernest (Dick Foran). Thea (Lola Lane) is romanced by an old but wealthy man. Kay (Rosemary Lane) wants to become a singer. Ann (Priscilla Lane) is a romantic. Drop dead handsome Felix Deitz (Jeffrey Lynn), a business associate of their father, comes to stay with them. All the sisters fall in love with him. Then tough cynical Mickey (John Garfield) enters the picture...

Very entertaining movie was a big hit and nominated for five Academy Awards. It's beautifully directed by Michael Curitz, has a pretty good (if predictable) script and a VERY attractive cast (especially Lynn). Also this was John Garfield's first film and made him a star. This was so popular there were three or four sequels (which I never saw). This is an engrossing, entertaining, big budget soap opera--well worth seeing.

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