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Post by Andrea Doria on Apr 3, 2024 12:33:06 GMT
Please join us Sunday for a delightful musical melodrama, "Four Daughters," about a music professor's talented daughters and their romantic interests. Starring (be still my heart) John Garfield in his first role, for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
There are some women in it too.
Played by the Lane Sisters, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane and Gale Page.
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 3, 2024 15:23:18 GMT
Played by the Lane Sisters, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane and Gale Page.
I high hosey Priscilla Lane (lower right) - the ultimate '30/'40s girl next door.
This is a fun movie, good choice, Andrea.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 4, 2024 13:48:32 GMT
Glad Andrea chose these films. I watched YOUNG AT HEART earlier this year and wrote a review on it. But I don't think I have seen the earlier versions. It will be fun to take a look at them.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Apr 4, 2024 19:57:14 GMT
To be honest, Topbilled helped me pick these.
I've only seen, "Young at Heart," but it's a favorite of mine so I'm more than ready to see the others.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 5, 2024 7:15:59 GMT
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 5, 2024 16:14:01 GMT
Four Daughters is based on the Fannie Hurst story, "Sister Act", which appeared in Cosmopolitan in March 1937.
A block of films from Hurst's work would fit in perfectly around here.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Apr 5, 2024 17:03:55 GMT
Good find, BunnyWhit! I love that Cosmo cover.
A month of Fannie Hurst movies is a fabulous idea.
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Apr 5, 2024 18:35:41 GMT
Four Daughters is based on the Fannie Hurst story, "Sister Act", which appeared in Cosmopolitan in March 1937.
A block of films from Hurst's work would fit in perfectly around here. Great idea. Below is a list of film credits for Hurst. As one can see it is incomplete since Four Daughters and Five and Ten (first rate 1931 pre-code with Marian Davies and Leslie Howard), are not listed. I guess "film credits" is meant to be taken literally. But even if only one version of a film based on her work was shown it would make for a full day of programming. What a major contribution Hurst made to literature and the film industry. Film credits Humoresque (1920) Lummox (1930), based on the 1923 novel; also dialogue Symphony of Six Million (1932), based on the story "Night Bell" Back Street (1932), based on the novel Imitation of Life (1934), based on the novel Back Street (1941), based on the novel Humoresque (1946), based on the story Imitation of Life (1959), based on the novel
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Post by BunnyWhit on Apr 5, 2024 18:57:30 GMT
Four Daughters is based on the Fannie Hurst story, "Sister Act", which appeared in Cosmopolitan in March 1937.
A block of films from Hurst's work would fit in perfectly around here. Great idea. Below is a list of film credits for Hurst. As one can see it is incomplete since Four Daughters and Five and Ten (first rate 1931 pre-code with Marian Davies and Leslie Howard), are not listed. I guess "film credits" is meant to be taken literally. But even if only one version of a film based on her work was shown it would make for a full day of programming. What a major contribution Hurst made to literature and the film industry. Film credits Humoresque (1920) Lummox (1930), based on the 1923 novel; also dialogue Symphony of Six Million (1932), based on the story "Night Bell" Back Street (1932), based on the novel Imitation of Life (1934), based on the novel Back Street (1941), based on the novel Humoresque (1946), based on the story Imitation of Life (1959), based on the novel There is also Back Pay from 1922, which was also a talkie in 1930. I've seen the silent film but not the remake.
There are others, but I don't know that I've seen any of them. Hurst was a prolific writer, and though her subject matter was very popular in her day, it soon came to be considered sensational and too MELODRAMATIC.
I'm really looking forward to seeing Four Daughters with everyone on Sunday!
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 5, 2024 19:26:51 GMT
Great idea. Below is a list of film credits for Hurst. As one can see it is incomplete since Four Daughters and Five and Ten (first rate 1931 pre-code with Marian Davies and Leslie Howard), are not listed. I guess "film credits" is meant to be taken literally. But even if only one version of a film based on her work was shown it would make for a full day of programming. What a major contribution Hurst made to literature and the film industry. Film credits Humoresque (1920) Lummox (1930), based on the 1923 novel; also dialogue Symphony of Six Million (1932), based on the story "Night Bell" Back Street (1932), based on the novel Imitation of Life (1934), based on the novel Back Street (1941), based on the novel Humoresque (1946), based on the story Imitation of Life (1959), based on the novel There is also Back Pay from 1922, which was also a talkie in 1930. I've seen the silent film but not the remake.
There are others, but I don't know that I've seen any of them. Hurst was a prolific writer, and though her subject matter was very popular in her day, it soon came to be considered sensational and too MELODRAMATIC.
I'm really looking forward to seeing Four Daughters with everyone on Sunday! I agree. I think we are going to have fun with "Four Daughters," because, while it has some bite - Garfield - it's a pretty lighthearted movie overall where we'll have time for some enjoyable back-and-forth posts. Sadly, there is no Hazel Brooks to burn our retinas, though.
I'll note that I think we should watch "Daughter Courageous" at some point as it's very similar to these movies - the Lane sisters play daughters again - but for some reason it wasn't made as part of this series. It's my favorite of all these "Lane Sister" movies, though.
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Post by topbilled on Apr 5, 2024 21:00:39 GMT
Trailer for the film...
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 5, 2024 21:18:56 GMT
That's a longer than normal trailer.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Apr 6, 2024 2:19:23 GMT
Andrea Doria, while you had me at musical melodrama... Your crazy font shenanigans intrigue as well - apparently with good reason:
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. - New York Times
My poor dear Claude Rains. I am likely to leave him for dust it seems.
The Internet Archive has copies of Four Daughters and Four Wives but no luck on Four Mothers at this juncture. Quel dommage.
Off to try to determine why I have never heard this vitally important term high hosey...
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Post by topbilled on Apr 6, 2024 3:01:04 GMT
A few thoughts after looking at the trailer...
Gale Page's voice reminds me of Margaret Lindsay.
I love how these trailers of yesteryear play up the outstanding casts...the studio producers took great pride in casting their pictures with established character actors and actresses in the key supporting parts.
The trailer tells us that Garfield was a success on Broadway in Clifford Odets' smash play 'Golden Boy.' Unfortunately for Garfield, Warner Brothers did not snag the rights to the play, Columbia did, and with Barbara Stanwyck's input (she had casting approval) they made William Holden their golden boy.
The trailer plays up the other romantic male lead in FOUR DAUGHTERS-- Jeffrey Lynn.
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 6, 2024 8:59:40 GMT
A few thoughts after looking at the trailer...
Gale Page's voice reminds me of Margaret Lindsay.
I love how these trailers of yesteryear play up the outstanding casts...the studio producers took great pride in casting their pictures with established character actors and actresses in the key supporting parts.
The trailer tells us that Garfield was a success on Broadway in Clifford Odets' smash play 'Golden Boy.' Unfortunately for Garfield, Warner Brothers did not snag the rights to the play, Columbia did, and with Barbara Stanwyck's input (she had casting approval) they made William Holden their golden boy.
The trailer plays up the other romantic male lead in FOUR DAUGHTERS-- Jeffrey Lynn.
That's a great picture of Lynn and he's wearing beautiful classic American "casual" clothing (the white bucks are awesome). It's funny, growing up in the 1970s/'80s and for years after, the sweater vest and the cardigan had a bad rap - nerdy, "dad" clothes, etc. But I've noticed in the past two decades that they've made a comeback, as I see them in stores oriented to young men (really, on the websites, as I rarely go to clothing stores) and I see young men wearing them on TV shows, in movies and on the streets of NYC all the time now. It's interesting how styles cycle through.
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