About this series
Trilogy of films starring the Lane sisters and Claude Rains as their father, including "Four Daughters" (1938); "Four Wives" (1939); and "Four Mothers" (1941); not including "Daughters Courageous" (1939), which has the same actors playing different characters.
All films — in order
1
Four Daughters
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.
2
Four Wives
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
3
Four Mothers
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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