Many of the cast of the film starred in another Warner Bros. film, Daughters Courageous, released in 1939, which had an almost identical plot. The three Lanes were sisters and members of a family singing trio. Felix is alone and unhappy, though he has a good conducting job awaiting him in Seattle. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe. Kay, the third daughter, is a talented singer and has a chance at a music school scholarship but doesn't want to leave home. 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. A while later, all four daughters are home making music with their loved ones when Felix returns, and he and Ann renew their love. Cast & Credits. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. It was released by Warner Bros. on December 25, 1939. All the characters' names were changed, the number of daughters was reduced to three, and the young men who vie for the heroine's heart compose songs rather than orchestral music. 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’ Aunt Etta, in the long time family home. 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' Aunt Etta, in the long time family home. Film. to win honorary and competitive Oscars in the same year. [4], "The 11th Academy Awards (1939) Nominees and Winners", "AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions Nominees", "DVD Extra: Southwest noir, 'nude' Dietrich, Fonda and Caine go South; 'The Prize' finally bows", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Four_Daughters&oldid=993790843, Films with screenplays by Julius J. Epstein, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 12 December 2020, at 14:45. Julius J. Epstein and Leonore Coffee's script was based on Fannie Hurst's Cosmopolitan magazine story, Sister Act; the film's original title was Because of a Man. Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends. Priscilla Lane . Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Fiction. Sister Act Alternative; Synopsis. Three sisters scheme to reunite their divorced parents before their wealthy father marries a conniving gold digger. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue. Producer. Four Daughters is a 1938 American musical drama film that tells the story of a happy musical family whose lives and loves are disrupted by the arrival of a cynical young composer who interjects himself into the daughters' romantic lives. Four Daughters is a 1938 American musical drama film that tells the story of a happy musical family whose lives and loves are disrupted by the arrival of a cynical young composer who interjects himself into the daughters' romantic lives. Young at Heart also has a very different ending: Frank Sinatra's suicide attempt fails. Huggo. Only the youngest, the fun loving Ann, states that she doesn't want to get married. Crime, Certificate: Passed You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. With Claude Rains, John Garfield, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh. 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. 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 film was directed by Michael Curtiz and is based on the story "Sister Act" by Fannie Hurst. Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Adam Lemp (Claude Rains) already has enough trouble when all four young women, Ann, Thea, Kay and Emma (real-life sisters Priscilla Lane, Lola Lane, Rosemary Lane and Gale Page) fall for Felix Deitz (Jeffrey Lynn). Thea, a pianist and the second eldest, is courted by wealthy Ben Crowley (Frank McHugh), another neighbor, but she is not sure she loves him. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 ... See full summary », After meeting each other as fellow employees at J.B. Martin Co., forthright twenty-two year old Bobby Halevy and twenty-five year old Rims Rosson, who has his head in the clouds in coming ... See full summary ». Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. The family meets at the Lemps' house for Christmas, except Kay, who is singing on the radio that night. Was this review helpful to you? Jim is a test pilot. When he and Ben go to see Felix off at the train station in a snowstorm, he drives Ben's car and drops Ben off for an errand; as the train pulls out, Felix presses some money on him and tells him to use it for Ann, and Mickey, realizing that Felix and Ann really belong together, speeds through the snow until he crashes the car. (1938). cast member . 2:51 Four Daughters. 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' Aunt Etta, in the long time family home. Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Four Daughters is a 1938 American musical drama film that tells the story of a happy musical family whose lives and loves are disrupted by the arrival of a cynical young composer who interjects himself into the daughters' romantic lives. Four Daughters (1938) - Genius In The Famiiy Opening introducing father Adrian Lemp (Claude Rains) then all four girls (Lane sisters, Priscilla as "Ann" on violin, Rosemary, vocal, as "Kay", Lola, as "Thea" on piano, and Gale Page, as "Emma," on harp), and May Robson as "Aunt Etta," from the Warner Bros. hit Four Daughters, 1938. Screenplay by Julius J. Epstein and Leonard Coffee, based on a book by Fannie Hurst. Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. 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' Aunt Etta, in the long time family home. This is an engrossing, entertaining, big budget soap opera--well worth seeing. An hour before Ann and Felix are to marry, Mickey tells Ann that Emma is in love with Felix. Of the four, Kay has the greatest promise as a musical performer, specifically as a singer. Originally Warner Bros. assigned the part of "Felix Deitz" to Errol Flynn. The family comes to the hospital, and he dies with Ann at his bedside. Cast. Another film, Daughters Courageous, was hastily constructed using the same cast, but with different character names so as to accommodate a happier denouement for Garfield and Lane. Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Ann (Priscilla Lane) is a romantic. Here are a few Priscilla Lane bloopers, from the movies Brother Rat and Four Daughters. Four Daughters Director. Thea's husband Ben has promoted a Florida housing development to everyone in town, and ... See full summary ». However, the storyline of Four Daughters and the Lemp family is continued in the 1939 film Four Wives, and 1941's Four Mothers. Type. Four Daughters was remade in 1954 as Young at Heart, with Frank Sinatra and Doris Day in the John Garfield and Priscilla Lane roles.~Hal Erickson Story about a widowed father (Claude Rains) bringing up his four daughters. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. Comedy. Use the HTML below. Their collective ... Four Daughters Sets ‘The Match’ As First Feature With Francesca Gregorini Directing. Putting aside Mr. Warner's career for the nonce, we may assert with equal confidence that Four Daughters is one of the best pictures of anybody's career, if only for the sake of the marvelously meaningful character of Mickey Borden as portrayed by John (formerly Jules) Garfield, who bites off his lines with a delivery so eloquent that we still aren't sure whether it is the dialogue or Mr. Garfield who is so bitterly brilliant."[1]. A musician is blessed with four musical prodigies, all girls, and cursed when a troubled young composer enters the lives of his Four Daughters. Four Daughters (1938) - Genius In The Famiiy Opening introducing father Adrian Lemp (Claude Rains) then all four girls (Lane sisters, Priscilla as "Ann" on violin, Rosemary, vocal, as "Kay", Lola, as "Thea" on piano, and Gale Page, as "Emma," on harp), and May Robson as "Aunt Etta," from the Warner Bros. hit Four Daughters, 1938. Category. Ernest is prominent in calming people. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue. Only the youngest, the fun loving Ann, states that she doesn't want to get married. Al is shot and Nick kills a policeman. They go back to her apartment and he forces her family to hide him from the police manhunt. Emma, the oldest daughter, is the object of affection of a neighbor, Ernest (Dick Foran), but she rebuffs his attentions. Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA. It was followed by 1939's Daughters Courageous, also directed by Michael Curtiz and co-starring Claude Rains and John Garfield, though it is a story about a different family. Production took place between April 18th and June 4th, 1938. Michael Curtiz. 1938. The youngest daughter is Ann, a violinist. The film was so popular that two sequels were made, Four Wives in 1939, also directed by Curtiz (see entry) and Four Mothers in 1941. Adam Lemp and his four daughters, Ann, Thea, Kay, and Emma, are in financial and emotional crises. The three Lanes were sisters and members of a family singing trio. So popular was "Four Daughters" that it inspired "Four Wives" and "Four Mothers," as well as reuniting much of the cast again in "Daughters Courageous" where the actors played different characters. This was so popular there were three or four sequels (which I never saw). 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