...where there would be worksheets with 4 drawings and you would have to select the one which didn't belong. Well that's why this film series is such a mess. There were 4 films in a series: "Four Daughters" (1938), "Daughters Courageous" (1939), "Four Wives" (1939) and "Four Mothers" (1941). And even though they had almost all the same actors (with the notable exception of Fay Bainter), in "Daughters Courageous" the actors play different characters in a different setting. And if you don't know this -- as I didn't when I started watching -- this is a pretty confusing film. What happened to the mother; oops, different characters. What happened to the father that instead of deserting his family, he now seems to be the perfect father; oops, different characters.
The cast here is likable enough: Claude Rains as the musician father, Eddie Albert as one husband who's a scientist, May Robson as the aunt, Frank McHugh as another husband, Dick Foran as another husband, the Lane Sisters as the wives (along with Gale Page). No one is particularly great or bad; they all do their jobs.
The plot seems slapped together. McHugh sells shares in a real estate project in Florida which is swept away in a hurricane. The whole town has invested in the sunken project. The father (Claude Rains) decides he will pay back everyone in the community for their lost investment...although that seems to get lost in the plot before the end of the film. The highlight is that Rains conducts the symphony orchestra...although I fail to see what that has to do with the lost investments. At least they live happily ever after.
Pass this one by. Instead watch the really good film in the series -- the one that doesn't fit -- "Daughters Courageous".
The cast here is likable enough: Claude Rains as the musician father, Eddie Albert as one husband who's a scientist, May Robson as the aunt, Frank McHugh as another husband, Dick Foran as another husband, the Lane Sisters as the wives (along with Gale Page). No one is particularly great or bad; they all do their jobs.
The plot seems slapped together. McHugh sells shares in a real estate project in Florida which is swept away in a hurricane. The whole town has invested in the sunken project. The father (Claude Rains) decides he will pay back everyone in the community for their lost investment...although that seems to get lost in the plot before the end of the film. The highlight is that Rains conducts the symphony orchestra...although I fail to see what that has to do with the lost investments. At least they live happily ever after.
Pass this one by. Instead watch the really good film in the series -- the one that doesn't fit -- "Daughters Courageous".