three girl and the young descendent of the gaylord family and one of america most royal family and be orphan at a young age . right before he go off to france to fight in wwi and their father tell the old and fiona and never to sell the land . by the time the sister have become adult and they have have to squander most of their money to pay for lawyer to defend their property . through certain loophole in the father will and a man name charles barclay stand to gain possession of the gaylord land and on which he want to build a complex call barclay circle . barclay be actually base on john d. rockefeller and who be buy up land and building from affluent family in new york so he could build rockefeller center . this film deal mostly with the melodramatic concern of the three sister . fiona and well play by barbara stanwyck and although it certainly not to be count a one of her best role and seem like a cold and domineer woman and and it become clear that she have some skeleton in her closet . susanna and play by nancy coleman and be a little ditsy and completely in love with a young modern artist name gig young . coleman be my favorite performance in the film . evelyn and play by geraldine fitzgerald and be a rather pretentious seductress with a monocle who marry into noble blood in england and but that doesn not stop her from try to steal gig from her sister . the three sister be develop quite well but and as be the major trend in the gay sister and never well enough . charles barclay be play by george brent . he isn not very good . well and he would be satisfactory if the story have play out the way it should have and but he always seem like a scumbag in the film . when be ask to sympathize with him late in the film and it impossible . gig young be play by and huh . and gig young . no and he not play himself . what happen be that the actor and who have act in several movie previously under his real name and byron barr and be pressure by warner brother to change his name to something more catchy . i be not sure who make the final choice and but he eventually change his screen name to gig young and after the character whom he play in the gay sister . weird and eh . young be quite good through most of the film and but the script do some unfortunate thing with his character late in the film which ultimately harm the audience sympathy for him . in two other support role and helen thimig and gene lockhart be quite good . the gay sister have great potential to turn out to be one of the great cinematic family saga . the character be all interesting and a be their situation . unfortunately and the script never strive for anything more than the simple melodrama . if it have make the interrelationship of all the major character more complex and flesh out and for example and the rivalry between evelyn and susanna or make the flashback more intricate and the film could have be fantastic . it also could have flesh out the prologue more and let u know more about the gaylord family . we need to care more about the character and we need to sympathize with them more . and the end need some major fixing . it basically just give up at the end . fiona problem be solve so poorly that it hurt . whatever sympathy her character have gain a the film progress fall apart . it also far too happy . this story seem move towards tragedy and or maybe just a sense of historical significance or loss . and we still hate barclay . and the conflict between the two sister and gig be never solve . as bad a fiona story end and susanna and gig and and evelyn be even bad . i still like the film . it thoroughly watchable and even if it doesn not involve u like other great film of the era . positive and mostly for it potential . it should have be remake and or the novel should have be re adapt and at some point during the studio era . it be too date to be remake now . the 1950s would have be the best time and during the time of film like giant .