IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030149/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
IMDB rating: 7,1
Director: Michael Curtiz
Main Cast: Claude Rains, John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Gale Page, Frank McHugh, May Robson
"Fannie Hurst's Sister Act was the source for this money-making Warners weeper. The four daughters of the title are played by the Lane Sisters - Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola - and by Gale Page. All are musical prodigies, and all are daughters of master-musician Claude Rains. John Garfield makes his movie debut (no, he wasn't in 1933's Footlight Parade) as an embittered piano genius. Garfield has us in the palm of his scruffy hand the moment he begins philosophizing about the fates: 'So they flipped a coin... heads he's poor, tails he's rich... they flipped a coin - with two heads'. Aware that he can bring only unhappiness to Priscilla Lane, the daughter who cares most for him, Garfield obligingly drives into a heavy snowstorm and is killed in an auto accident (but it's not staged as a suicide, lest the Hays Office spank). John Garfield made so powerful an impression in Four Daughters that Warners was compelled to write him into the sequel Four Wives, first as a flashback and then as (implicitly) a ghost. 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. Four Daughters was remade in 1954 as Young at Heart, with Frank Sinatra and Doris Day in the John Garfield and Priscilla Lane roles." - http://www.allmovie.com/movie/four-daughters-v18310
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