Daughters Courageous

Daughters Courageous is a 1939 drama film starring the three Lane Sisters Lola, Rosemary and Priscilla, with the fourth sister being played by Gale Page. The movie also stars John Garfield and Claude Rains. Based on the play Fly Away Home by Dorothy Bennett and Irving White, the film was directed by Michael Curtiz.

Daughters Courageous follows 1938s Four Daughters, by the same stars and director, but is unrelated to the other three films in the Lane Sisters series because it is about a different family. However, the storyline of Four Daughters and the Lemp family is continued in the 1940 film, Four Wives, and 1941s Four Mothers.Frank S. Nugent of The New York Times called the film a thoroughly pleasant entertainmenthowbeit reminiscentwith a thoroughly pleasant cast to grace it. Variety wrote Few of the situations can stand up under too close scrutiny, but the flavor of the film as a whole is entertaining, amusing, and occasionally emotional. Harrisons Reports called it Good entertainment ... Although it is not as impressive as Four Daughters, it nevertheless holds ones attention well, since one is in sympathy with all the characters. Film Daily called it A production with a high voltage of sentimental of romantic appeal with a superduper cast. John Mosher of The New Yorker wrote that Garfield added a touch of color or adventuresome liveliness to help along the story, but found a quantity of bungalow patter that wears one down at times and a slight dullness to the picture. ........

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