The Gay Sisters (1942)
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In this grim melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays the eldest of three wealthy sisters who become orphans when their father dies in France. Threatened with the danger of losing the opulent family home, Big Sister makes a grand sacrifice and secretly marries a real estate developer so she can inherit her aunt's fortune. A few years later, she learns that he is after the family estate and wants to tear it down so she leaves him and tries to stop him. More time passes and the husband ends up taking her to court when he learns that she has borne him a son without telling him. The part of "Gig Young" was played by actor Byron Barr who later assumed the name before he became famous. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, (more)
- Director(s):
- Irving Rapper
Synopsis of The Gay Sisters
In this grim melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays the eldest of three wealthy sisters who become orphans when their father dies in France. Threatened with the danger of losing the opulent family home, Big Sister makes a grand sacrifice and secretly marries a real estate developer so she can inherit her aunt's fortune. A few years later, she learns that he is after the family estate and wants to tear it down so she leaves him and tries to stop him. More time passes and the husband ends up taking her to court when he learns that she has borne him a son without telling him. The part of "Gig Young" was played by actor Byron Barr who later assumed the name before he became famous. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Gay Sisters
- Barbara Stanwyck - Fiona Gaylord
- Geraldine Fitzgerald - Evelyn Gaylord
- Nancy Coleman - Susanna Gaylord
- Larry Simms - Austin
- Grant Mitchell - Gilbert Wheeler
- Anne Revere - Ida Orner
- George Lessey - Judge Barrows
- David Clyde - Benson
- Erville Alderson
- Byron Barr [Gig Young] - Gig Young
- Frank Darien
- Creighton Hale - Simmons
- Bill Edwards - Second Clerk
- Inez Palange
- Jack Mower - Court Attendant
- George Meeker - Clerk
- Hank Mann
- Mary Field
- George Haywood
- Claire Du Brey - Matron
- Sidney Bracey
- Walter Brooke
- George Brent - Charles Barclay
- Donald Crisp - Ralph Pedloch
- Gene Lockhart - Herschell Gibbon
- Donald Woods - Penn Sutherland Gaylord
- William Orr - Dick Tone
- Helene Thimig - Saskia
- Frank Reicher - Dr. Bigelow
- Mary Thomas - Fiona at Age Eight
- Murray Alper - Elevator Operator
- Hobart Bosworth - Clergyman
- Sarah Edwards
- Charles Drake - First Clerk
- Joan Winfield - Receptionist
- Garry Owen
- Ray Montgomery - Joe
- Edward McNamara - Policeman
- Vera Lewis - First Woman
- Dorothea Wolbert - Woman
- Fern Emmett
- Joseph Crehan - City Editor
- Harry C. Bradley - Clerk
- Director(s):
- Irving Rapper
- Writer(s):
- Lenore J. Coffee
- Producer(s):
- Henry Blanke
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