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Once again Barbara Stanwyck confronts us in another touching role played in her usual sloppy manner. This time she's a hard-boiled heiress who finally softens in the arms of patriarch George Brent. There is a secret marriage and a hidden child, and a few heart-rending scenes of mother love add an unconvincing emotional element before the anticipated end. All this is only too familiar to the steady moviegoer, who has probably seen Stanwyck run this stereotyped emotional gamut before. And in her case practice doesn't seem to make perfect...
...Sisters (Warner) are a very unhappy trio of prospective million-heiresses: Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Nancy Coleman. Their mother went down with the Lusitania. Their father died on a World War I battlefield. They have passed the best part of 23 years in court trying to get a clear title to the half-billion dollars fate and father left them. The Gay Sisters chronicles this courtroom crisis straight through to the final gavel...
...hard to say who is making it tougher for the girls, Warner Bros, or stubborn George Brent. Brent, a rich construction engineer, is the fly in the probate. He could settle everything, but won't because Sister Stanwyck, spokesman of the trio, won't sell him the family Fifth Avenue mansion which is blocking a kind of Rockefeller Center he's building. Stubborn Sister Stanwyck won't sell because her father told her not to. Besides, she was once secretly married to Brent-just long enough to collect a badly needed inheritance from her Aunt Sophronia...
...grudge at all against lawyers, are constrained to angle the picture's villainies some other way. They do it by suggesting that there is something vaguely unholy about owning real estate. The result is a picture whose ponderous pointlessness may well have been foreseen by prescient Miss Stanwyck on the first day's shooting. Said she to Cinemactor Brent, as the cameras prepared to roll: "Well, here we go again...
Handsome Patty, a product of Los Angeles public courts and protégé of Movie Stars Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck, is the National Junior champion. Equally handsome Bob Falkenburg, kid brother of much-photogled Jinx, and a boy friend of Shirley Temple, is the only tennist ever to win both the National Boys' Singles and Doubles championship two years...