Directed by:
Michael CurtizScreenplay:
Julius J. EpsteinComposer:
Max SteinerCast:
Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Gale Page, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, Eddie Albert, May Robson, Frank McHugh, Dick Foran, Henry O'Neill, John Garfield (more)Plots(1)
Following on the heels of the surprisingly successful FOUR DAUGHTERS, FOUR WIVES picks right up where the last one left off and sees the daughters of Lemp family patriarch Rains bearing children and finding a new husband for tragically widowed sister Lane. (The suicidal hubbie was played by Garfield in the first film; he reappears in this one as a ghost.) Priscilla Lane discovers that she is expecting the late Garfield's baby, however, and this sours her on noble Lynn's proposal of marriage. Meanwhile, sister Page is shocked to hear that she can't have children, Lola Lane adopts a kid and then gets pregnant with twins, and Rosemary Lane eventually gets married to Albert. All works out for Priscilla when she gives premature birth to her baby and its life is saved by the still-noble Lynn, who volunteers to give the kid a blood transfusion. This endears him to the mama, and they elope. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Priscilla Lane
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Saboteur (1942)
Rosemary Lane
USA
Best movies:
The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
The Return of Doctor X (1939)
Lola Lane
USA
Best movies:
Marked Woman (1937)
Gale Page
USA
Best movies:
They Drive by Night (1940)
Claude Rains
UK
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Casablanca (1942)
Jeffrey Lynn
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
BUtterfield 8 (1960)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Eddie Albert
USA
Best movies:
Roman Holiday (1953)
The Longest Day (1962)
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
May Robson
Australia
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Frank McHugh
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
The Front Page (1931)
Dick Foran
USA
Best movies:
The Petrified Forest (1936)
The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
The Mummy's Hand (1940)
Henry O'Neill
USA
Best movies:
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
John Garfield
USA
Best movies:
Les Années difficiles (1948)
Juarez (1939)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Vera Lewis
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
King Kong (1933)
John Qualen
Canada
Best movies:
A Patch of Blue (1965)
Casablanca (1942)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
George Reeves
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Robert Warwick
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
The Power and the Glory (1933)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Isabel Withers
USA
Best movies:
The Lost Weekend (1945)
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
To Each His Own (1946)
Neal Dodd
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Scarlet Street (1945)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Hobart Cavanaugh
USA
Best movies:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Captain Blood (1935)
The House of Fear (1945)
Olin Howland
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)