{"id":32545,"date":"2013-09-10T10:52:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=32545"},"modified":"2020-11-29T16:13:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T23:13:50","slug":"four-daughters-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=32545","title":{"rendered":"Four Daughters (1938)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;So they flipped a coin: heads he&#8217;s poor, tails he&#8217;s rich.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Poster-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Poster-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Poster-89x128.jpg 89w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Poster.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe four grown daughters &#8212; Thea (Lola Lane), Kay (Rosemary Lane), Emma (Gale Page), and Ann (Priscilla Lane) &#8212; of a musician (Claude Rains) struggle to find romantic happiness with the right partner. Emma resists overtures from the boy next door (Dick Foran), while Thea aspires to marry a wealthy banker (Frank McHugh) and Kay remains primarily focused on her career as a singer. Ann, the youngest, is determined not to marry &#8212; though she soon falls for a handsome musician (Jeffrey Lynn) whose charms sway her sisters as well; but when his troubled, cynical friend Mickey (John Garfield) arrives in town and falls for Ann, romantic entanglements become even more complicated.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Claude Rains Films<\/li>\n<li>John Garfield Films<\/li>\n<li>Love Triangle<\/li>\n<li>Michael Curtiz Films<\/li>\n<li>Musicians<\/li>\n<li>Priscilla Lane Films<\/li>\n<li>Siblings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nBased on a story by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fannie_Hurst\">Fannie Hurst<\/a>, and designed as a vehicle for Priscilla Lane and her two sisters (Lola and Rosemary), <em>Four Daughters<\/em> &#8212; directed by Michael Curtiz &#8212; was originally intended as an &#8220;A&#8221;-level picture, before Errol Flynn dropped out of the cast and Jeffrey Lynn signed on. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lynn.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lynn-1024x645.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"403\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-55705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lynn-1024x645.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lynn-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lynn-128x81.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lynn-768x484.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lynn-1536x967.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lynn-429x270.png 429w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lynn.png 1621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s primarily notable today for affording John Garfield his memorable screen debut:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield1-1024x638.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-55710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield1-1024x638.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield1-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield1-128x80.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield1-768x479.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield1-1536x957.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield1-433x270.png 433w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield1.png 1635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Garfield&#8217;s Oscar-nominated supporting performance as a philosophizing cynic who plucks Ann&#8217;s pity strings is likely why Peary includes this title in his <em>GFTFF<\/em>, and was enough to make the <em>New York Times&#8217;<\/em> reviewer take note: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the most startling innovation in the way of a screen character in years &#8212; a fascinating fatalist, reckless and poor and unhappy, who smokes too much, who is insufferably rude to everybody, and who assumes as a matter of course that all the cards are stacked against him, Mr. Garfield is such a sweet relief from conventional screen types, in this one character, anyway, so eloquent of a certain dispossessed class of people, that we can&#8217;t thank Warner Brothers, Michael Curtiz, the director; Mr. Epstein and Miss Coffee, the screen playwrights; and even Miss Fannie Hurst, the original author, enough for him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Otherwise, the film remains a fairly straightforward product of its era &#8212; a tearjerking romance full of conveniently implausible twists and turns, all taking place within the idyllic white-picket borders of a happy small-town household, presided over by avuncular Rains (in a throwaway role):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Rains.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Rains-1024x637.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-55706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Rains-1024x637.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Rains-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Rains-128x80.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Rains-768x478.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Rains-1536x955.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Rains-434x270.png 434w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Rains.png 1635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and no-nonsense May Robson as &#8220;Aunt Etta&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Robson.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Robson-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-55709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Robson-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Robson-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Robson-128x80.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Robson-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Robson-1536x960.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Robson-432x270.png 432w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Robson.png 1643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With that said, the script is surprisingly well-written for its genre, and contains quite a few lines of thoughtful and\/or amusing dialogue (see examples below) &#8212; you&#8217;ll likely be pleasantly surprised if you decide to check this one out.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Garfield as Mickey Borden<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield5-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-55711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield5-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield5-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield5-128x80.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield5-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield5-1536x960.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield5-432x270.png 432w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Garfield5.png 1631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ernest Haller&#8217;s cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lane.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lane-1024x652.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"408\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-55712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lane-1024x652.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lane-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lane-128x82.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lane-768x489.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lane-1536x979.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lane-424x270.png 424w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Four-Daughters-Lane.png 1615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Some surprisingly effective dialogue:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Do you think that&#8217;s right, to leave a song dangling in mid-air &#8212; no face, no feet?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;My name came first &#8212; then the curtains.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though it&#8217;s of interest simply for Garfield&#8217;s debut screen performance. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0030149\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1939\/06\/24\/archives\/the-screen-strands-daughters-courageous-faces-the-problem-of-the.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/161\/four-daughters#articles-reviews?articleId=17904\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rinkworks.com\/movies\/m\/four.daughters.1938.shtml\">At-a-Glance Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;So they flipped a coin: heads he&#8217;s poor, tails he&#8217;s rich.&#8221; Synopsis: The four grown daughters &#8212; Thea (Lola Lane), Kay (Rosemary Lane), Emma (Gale Page), and Ann (Priscilla Lane) &#8212; of a musician (Claude Rains) struggle to find romantic happiness with the right partner. Emma resists overtures from the boy next door (Dick Foran), while Thea aspires to marry a wealthy banker (Frank McHugh) and Kay remains primarily focused on her career as a singer. Ann, the youngest, is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=32545\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32545"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55713,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32545\/revisions\/55713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}