Pretty solid. Essentially it boils down to a love triangle between two of the sisters and a family friend whom they both pine for. There's plenty of quick, witty dialogue that prevents the whole thing from feeling too dated. I laughed out loud in the first few minutes when their father, played by Claude Rains responds to his daughters' teasing by saying, "I'm going down to the hall of records to strike my name off of your birth certificates."
Three of the four titular daughters are played by the real life Lane sisters and there are two less heralded sequels - Four Wives and Four Mothers. The film is directed by Michael Curtiz who had an amazing year in 1938. He was nominated for directing both Four Daughters and Angels with Dirty Faces that year and wasn't nominated for his best known 1938 film - The Adventures of Robin Hood. Four years later he would go on to direct Casablanca.
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