Four Daughters is a 1938 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. The movie stars the Lane Sisters , and features Gale Page, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, John Garfield and Dick Foran. The Lanes were real sisters, members of a family singing trio. The film was written by Lenore J. Coffee and Julius J. Epstein from the Fannie Hurst novel Sister Act, and was directed by Michael Curtiz. The movie spawned two sequels with more or less the... same cast, Four Wives and Four Mothers. The Lemp sisters, Ann, Kay, Thea, and Emma, are prodigies in a musical family headed by their father, Adam. The Lemps also run a boarding house, and among the tenants is Felix Deitz, a young composer whom the four daughters aim to attract. Emma, the oldest daughter, is the object of affection for a nervous neighbor, Ernest, but she rebuffs his attentions. Thea, a pianist and the second oldest, is courted by a local wealthy man, Ben Crowley, but is not sure she loves him.
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| Release date: | 1938 |
| Directed by: | Michael Curtiz |
| Runtime: | 90 Minutes |
| Producer: | Henry Blanke, Benjamin Glazer, Hal B. Wallis |
| Editor: | Ralph Dawson |
| Music by: | Max Steiner |
| Cinematography: | Ernest Haller |
| Screenplay by: | Lenore J. Coffee, Julius J. Epstein |
| Adapted from: | Sister Act |
| Genre: | Musical |