Films for Family and Friends: Four Daughters (1938)

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Four Daughters is the first installment of this Warner Bros. Classic Trilogy (Four Daughters, Four Wives, and Four Mothers) that has quickly become a new favorite series of mine! This wonderfully written story by Fannie Hurst called Sister Act made its way to Cosmopolitan Magazine and onto the big screen.

Four Daughters tells the tale of the musically talented Lemp family. Adam Lemp (Claude Raines) is a dean at the local Musical Foundation. He is also the stuffy, old- fashioned yet loving father and conductor of his beautiful quartet of equally talented daughters; Kay-Angelic Vocals (Rosemary Lane), Emma-Harp (Gale Page), Thea-Piano (Lola Lane) and Ann-Violin (Priscilla Lane). And of course, you have Aunt Etta (May Robson) who helps her brother Adam keep his head together.

Their usual routine is suddenly interrupted when Felix Deetz (Jeffrey Lynn), a young composer and fellow colleague at The Musical Foundation,comes to live with them.Felix is handsome, charming, talented, and kindhearted... and has smitten all of the Lemp sisters! However the one he has his marital sights on is Ann.When they announce their engagement and wedding plans, more surprises and changes come along...for better...and worse. Despite these changes, nothing can change the love and strength between Adam Lemp and his four daughters.

You will certainly enjoy this great, engaging, and unpredictable story of love and family.

What I like best is that they kept the same fabulous cast throughout the series and 3 of the 4 daughters (as you can tell by their last names) are real-life sisters! You can find this film and the rest of the series on Amazon.com and TCM.com.

Happy Viewing,

Neah B