the song and include a couple of sinatra best and be easily the best part of this movie . but the rest be nearly unwatchable compare with the original and four daughter . john garfield deliver a performance in four daughter that make him an overnight sensation and deservedly so . his mickey be a complex character that garfield absolutely nails with a superbly nuanced performance . mickey be a pessimist and but he be no brooder . he muck through life a a rather detach cynic . but his brand of cynicism be not really bitter . mickey be more resigned than bitter . his persona be the result of circumstance and not his innate character . that be what make his character sympathetic . by contrast and sinatra carry the weight of the world on his shoulder . he be very self absorb and bitter . he have none of the devil may care insouciance of garfield . while garfield evokes sympathy and sinatra evokes pity ( at best ) . there be the possibility that garfield character could actually fit into the tuttle family and give a change of luck . but sinatra never will while indeed and he never do . even while tinkle the ivory in the new happy end and he still seem like a self absorb brooder . his persona be the result of his character not his circumstance . so and when his circumstance improve and his persona be unchanged . the happy end be a terrible contrivance and but it would have work much well with garfield mickey than with sinatra . nor do i ever once feel any chemistry between frank sinatra and doris day that convince me they truly be a loving couple who i want to cheer for . but i do feel that way about john garfield and priscilla lane . there be never such a huge contrast in personality between garfield and lane a there be between sinatra and day . and i sense much more chemistry between garfield and lane than between sinatra and day . the possibility that seem to be in reach for garfield and lane be what make mickey death so tragic . i never sense those possibility for sinatra and day . sinatra death would not have be nearly a tragic . nor do his survival seem to offer the promise of fulfillment of those possibility . the gulf between sinatra character and day character be huge . no mere change of circumstance can change that . in sum and i do not dislike the mickey portray by garfield while i do not like the mickey portray by sinatra . finally and the gig young character in this remake be absolutely superfluous to the new story . why even bother with him . just have sinatra be the guy who come to stay with the tuttles in the first place .