a tight knit musical family and cranky benevolent father and four vivacious adolescent daughter and be up root by and first and the appearance of felix and a dashing young composer and and and secondly and most profoundly and mickey and his insolently attractive orchestrator friend . it take a while for michael curtiz to get this piece of americana float . the first part look almost like a paraphrasing of a cereal commercial and not without a certain quaint and highly bourgeois charm and and then john garfield enter the scene a the doomed mickey and make his first appearance in motion picture and with muss up black curl and sleepy and hung over eye and rude and dishevel and the absolute opposite to jeffrey lynn smoothly persuasive and madly charming felix . garfield be in complete and and direly need and counterpoint to the rest of the household ( nothing i would do would surprise me and he muse ) and and suddenly the movie become interesting and although i agree with critic that find the plot turn insufficiently motivate . the four sister be rather blandly play and seriously underwritten and but claude rain a the pater familias have his moment . watch it for garfield and though and he be the only really lasting thing about it .