Daughters Courageous

... because you've got the same cast, but Four Daughters was John Garfield's film debut, causing an ending that prevented him from being in any sequels.

I liked the film and the performances, but the whole thing just seems odd when you compare it to the previous film. And actually, this film just takes the cast from Four Daughters and puts them in an entirely different plot, taken from a play. In this one, Claude Rains is the father who deserted his family twenty years before and just shows up, not the masterful musician. The mother is alive, and left to raise her daughters alone after dad's desertion. And yet the daughters can't help but eventually warm to dad. Who can resist Claude Rains after all? Even as a cad he is charming. And yet dad's timing couldn't be worse, because mom is about to be remarried to a respectable businessman who is not going anywhere. Another complication - dad was declared dead years ago, but now here he is alive, nullifying that declaration.

This time, though, Priscilla Lane is drawn to ...Gabriel Lopez??? ( I think the name Mickey Borden was more up Garfield's alley) rather than just marrying him as a way of being self sacrificing, and bland Jeffrey Lynn is correctly the suitor who is putting her feet to sleep. May Robson is just the housekeeper here not the elderly relative. You have to remember Ms. Robson is 81 by the time this film is made, and yet she is so energetic.

I'd recommend it. Oddly enough the actual sequels to "Four Daughters" - "Four Wives" and "Four Mothers" were made after this film that had no relation to the actual film trilogy.