Four Daughters (1938)

Directed by

Michael Curtiz

Genre

drama film, comedy film, musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A close-knit musical family sees their quiet lives upended when a charming young composer enters the picture and gets involved with the four daughters. His cynical musician friend then shows up to help with a composition and stirs up even more romantic complications.

lightheartedromanticbreezywarmwhimsicalupbeatmusical

What happens

Four Daughters is a 1938 American romance film that tells the story of a happy musical family whose lives and loves are disrupted by the arrival of a charming young composer who interjects himself into the daughters' romantic lives. His cynical, bitter musician friend comes to help orchestrate his latest composition and complicates matters even more. The movie stars the Lane Sisters (Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, and Lola Lane) and Gale Page, and features Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, John Garfield, and Dick Foran. The three Lanes were sisters and members of a family singing trio. The film was written by Lenore J. Coffee and Julius J. Epstein, adapted from the 1937 Fannie Hurst story "Sister Act", and was directed by Michael Curtiz. The movie's success led to two sequels with more or less the same cast: Four Wives and Four Mothers. The same cast—with the addition of Fay Bainter and Donald Crisp—appeared in the film Daughters Courageous, which had no connection with the Lemp family trilogy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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