The Gay Sisters (1942) - Turner Classic Movi

Contents:

• THE GAY SISTERS
• THE GAY SISTERS
• THE GAY SISTERS - FULL CAST & CREW
• IRVG RAPPER – THE GAY SISTERS (1942)
• THE GAY SISTERS

THE GAY SISTERS

Based on the novel The Gay Sisters by Stephen Longstreet (New York, 1942). Before wealthy New Yorker Penn Sutherland Gaylord leav to fight World War I, he wr an airtight will leavg everythg to his three motherls dghters, Fna, Evelyn and Sanna.

In his stctns to the eight-year-old Fna, he emphasiz that the Gaylords never sell their land.

Over the years the Gaylords have cut back on their staff, and now the hoehold nsists of the ok, Saskia, and At, a small boy Fna recently brought home after the ath of their old nanny, who was rg for him. Although Pedloch believ that he n settle the se soon, he is troubled by the enmy between Barclay and the Gaylords. The Gay Sisters (1942) was director Irvg Rapper's third movie, but was not a labor of love: his boss said direct the film or face spensn.

THE GAY SISTERS

If his boss had tly had their way, he'd have worked wh Davis as well on The Gay Sisters. She wrote to executive producer Hal Wallis, murrg, "I would be so grateful if you would give The Gay Sisters to someone else. Adapted om the novel by Stephen Longstreet (the Parisian expatriate thor/screenwrer also behd Stalln Road (1947) and Silver River (1948), among others), the story follows the Gaylord heirs Fna, Evelyn, and Sanna.

The Gay Sisters received enuragg early not, wh Variety wrg that was "long, dignified, rather weighty, fairly imprsive and varygly entertag picture. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Fna Gaylord), Gee Brent (Charl Barclay), Geralde Fzgerald (Evelyn Gaylord), Donald Crisp (Ralph Pedloch), Byron Barr (Gig Young), Nancy Coleman (Sie Gaylord), Gene Lockhart (Mr. Herschell Gibbon), Larry Simms (At), Donald Woods (Penn Sutherland Gaylord), Grant Mchell (Gilbert Wheeler).

"The Gay Sisters.

THE GAY SISTERS - FULL CAST & CREW

The Gay Sisters.

The heady melodrama The Gay Sisters (1942); the superb pnage thriller Watch on the Rhe (1943); Robert Sdmak's terrific, noirish thriller The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945); and a tough crime drama where she played oppose John Garfield Nobody Liv Forever (1946). Fna Gaylord.

The lead role was origally offered to Bette Davis, who sent a memo to Jack Warner, sayg, "I do wish you'd give 'The Gay Sisters' to someone else. The Variety review not the film's "thly-veiled referenc" to proment New Yorkers and their projects such as the siary between the "Barclay Square" real tate velopment and Rockefeller Center, and siar parallels between the "Gaylords" and the Vanrbilts. Sanna Gaylord.

IRVG RAPPER – THE GAY SISTERS (1942)

Penn Sutherland Gaylord.

Fna Gaylord as a Girl of 8. Gaylord's Clerk. When the three Gaylord sisters lose their parents, they mt scramble to keep up their Fifth Estate mansn on their own, ptg them agast each other.

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THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; ‘ The Gay Sisters, ’ Featurg Barbara Stanwyck, Gee Brent, Geralde Fzgerald and Donald Crisp, at StrandT. What a long, gray and pretent film “The Gay Sisters” is! “We Gaylords are a queer lot, ” says Barbara Stanwyck as the hard-hearted sister who brgs the tr to and then the last reel que explibly relents.

No, “The Gay Sisters” are neher signifint their vicns, nor acute their mockery of themselv. Warner, sayg, "I do wish you'd give 'The Gay Sisters' to someone else. Siari between the film's "Gaylord" fay and the real "Vanrbilt" fay, and the "Barclay Square" project the film and New York's "Rockefeller Center" was noted by Variety's reviewer.