four mothers
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the story of four working mothers who became record - breakers when they rowed across the atlantic could now be told in a movie .
today the four mothers met with prime minister ehud barak, who last week completed the unilateral withdrawal from lebanon that they had pushed for .
the founders, like those of four mothers, are all residents of kibbutzim and moshavim in the north. in the four mothers this caused a split and the departure of most of the activists from the center of the country .
the movement ends in haifa ,
they used to quip .
today, in imitation of a military custom, ms. ben dor pinned a medal on mr. barak' s chest - - with force. it was a four mothers button .
four mothers (1941) follows four daughters (1938) & four wives (1939), and i' m glad they dropped this series before they got to four widows with claude rains having no choice than to go medieval on the husbands going insane for playing this ultimate cool tv - dad. the film is alright, but takes a lot of weird emotional turns for no apparent reasons other than it being last ditch ideas to squeeze something out of the lane sisters .
the name four mothers movement was coined on march 4, 1997. five years to the day, another new movement that also calls for withdrawal - this time from the territories - has been established .
reasonable: i did enjoy it - but not really my sort of book. the story of four mothers and a family curse. mystical and lyrical in places and beautifully written. themes echoing down the generations .
four mothers sprang spontaneously from the disaster in which two idf helicopters on their way to lebanon crashed, killing 73 soldiers. the seventh day is the product of another movement, mabat l' ofek (the vista), set up by antebi and other four mother activists with the aim of having a dialogue with the settlers .
the comparison with four mothers is inevitable, even though only some of the seven signatories to the declaration of intention of the new movement were members of the other protest group. and unlike the motivation of many of the activists in four mothers - fear that their sons would die without reason in lebanon - this time the vision is broader .
then it was an outburst of anguish. today it is more the result of a process ,
antebi says .
'' from the beginning it was so shocking to the israeli public that it was mothers who were demanding answers from the government,'' said linda ben zvi, a leading member but not one of the original four.'' mothers were supposed to make the schnitzel and hand - wash the uniforms and play the passive role inbred in israeli society.''
in the same way as four mothers broke the taboo of withdrawal from lebanon and made it a political issue, so the seventh day hopes to create a public debate and to give legitimation to expression for a desire to withdraw from the territories .
written with a droll sense of humor ms. horn captures the essence of four generations of mother - daughter relationships in an ever - changing world... mothers clinging to long - standing traditions, daughters grasping at the unknown future. beautiful !
on talk shows, the mothers were placed opposite generals who patted them on the shoulders and rolled their eyes when the women spoke .
on march 4, 1997, a name was coined for a protest group whose activities contributed to the historic decision to pull out of lebanon - the four mothers movement. zohara antebi, one of the four, sees symbolic significance in the fact that five years to the day, another new movement that also calls for withdrawal - this time from the territories - has been established .
but it was too late. the israeli news media loved the mothers, and the public appreciated the way they memorialized every soldier who died .
in the three days since news of the movement got out, support is spreading in leaps and bounds .
it' s great ,
says antebi while the telephone does not stop ringing in the background .
four mothers was small change compared to this .
the third - - and probably least effective - - installment in the warner brothers series that traced the loves of four sisters (the first two were four daughters and four wives). married life and financial difficulties make up the crux of this melodrama, which sees three of the sisters now happy homemakers with babies and hubbies to care for. trouble looms when... read more
the mothers, who will meet on saturday to vote on whether to put themselves out of business as an organization, do not need it anymore .
that pushed ms. ben dor, an opponent of what she saw as israel' s senseless involvement in lebanon, over the edge. summoning three friends to her kitchen in a northern kibbutz, she hatched a group eventually called the four mothers - - leave lebanon in peace .
four daughters. four wives. four mothers. the popular film series comes to an end with this laughter - touched melodrama that welcomes fans to one last visit with the lemp family. the four lemp sisters, played by the lane sisters (priscilla, rosemary and lola) plus gale page, have faced triumph and tragedy together. now the years of struggle seem to be over - until a real estate investment brings financial disaster to them and their town. the townsfolk blame the girls' father (claude rains), the family home may have to be sold... and the lemps prove once again that the greatest strength comes from family. a life - and - death medical mystery (one of the girls married a crusading doctor) adds suspense to the sentiment .
on friday, they confirmed a book telling their story - four mums in a boat - will be published by a division of harpercollins uk next year .
needless to say, the call for a withdrawal from the territories is not new and different movements have tried to advocate it for years. but because of four mothers' reputation as a grassroots movement - largely of women - that succeeded in influencing military and political policy, the new movement is arousing a great deal of excitement .
many israelis celebrated the four mothers this week. the jerusalem post today called them'' one of the most successful grass - roots movements in israeli history.'' the women took a classic israeli stereotype - - the silent, suffering soldier' s mother - - stood it on its head and dared to challenge the military .
correction: june 7, 2000, wednesday an article on saturday about the four mothers, a group formed to promote israeli withdrawal from southern lebanon, referred incorrectly at one point to the mother of or ben dor, who earned a medal in combat there. she is rachel ben dor; linda ben zvi is another member of the organization .
not brilliant writing... but ok. about four generations of women in jerusalem - novel, not bio / auto / memoir... it is ok. interesting .
the four friends - known as the yorkshire rows - became the oldest women to row across an ocean when they crossed the finish line of the talisker whisky atlantic challenge in antigua .
american singers and actresses the lane sisters, with actress gail page, posing with baby carriages containing baby dolls, in a promotional portrait for' four mothers', directed by william keighley, 1941. left to right: priscilla lane (1915 - 1995), rosemary lane (1914 - 1974), gail page (1913 - 1983) and lola lane (1906 - 1981) .
the topic was not withdrawal then, but an attempt to work out together what shape the country' s future should take. the dialogue led to a split in four mothers and some of those who were opposed to the dialogue are currently organizing into a group called the fifth mother, with the aim of withdrawing from the territories. unlike the seventh day, its members are all women and its tone is motherly .
a family saga, focusing on the stories of four successive generations of mothers who are cursed with what can only be described as serious husband problems. by any definition, these are interesting women, and most of them are complete nut jobs. there is a heavy overlay of folklore throughout much of the book, and this gives it something of an exotic quality. the writing is lovely, and this alone makes the book better than the typical family saga .
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the matrilineal descent of a middle eastern family fueled by magical realism reminded me of dora levy mossanen' s harem. both of these authors were born in tel aviv. four mothers was an award - winning work published in 1996 in hebrew that i read in english translation. harem was published in 2002 in english, and i would be really surprised if the influence didn' t come from shifra horn. i never quite know what to do with these long family sagas that don' t have an obvious endpoint or goal, but i am a
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local and foreign tv crews, well known and anonymous peace activists, are all contacting the group to hear more. not all the responses are favorable. on one web site where the new movement was mentioned, surfers responded by calling them
four terrorists
and there have been threatening telephone calls. they are used to the threats from the lebanon days .
the matrilineal descent of a middle eastern family fueled by magical realism reminded me of dora levy mossanen' s harem. both of these authors were born in tel aviv. four mothers was an award - winning work published in 1996 in hebrew that i read in english translation. harem was published in 2002 in english, and i would be really surprised if the influence didn' t come from shifra horn. i never quite know what to do with these long family sagas that don' t have an obvious endpoint or goal, but i am attracted to the magical elements. i think i will remember the severely autistic son (who lives at home, never having been diagnosed with anything, never being educated) and the rose distillery' s effect on the horses of jerusalem .
this doesn’t really merit a summary, but here it is – five generations of women suffer a curse which results in their being abandoned by their husbands around the time they deliver their first child. from here, you can probably write the book yourself – typical chick lit saga of mothers and daughters, each with her own story. apparently, israel is not immune to the tired marketing ploy of, “middle aged women, i just know you’ll love to read me in your book clubs and will uncritically accept all
a rich and sweeping family saga set in israel over a century, about five remarkable jewish mothers. amal, after giving birth to a son, and thereby breaking the curse of the women of her family explores the lives of her mother, the wayward geula, her grandmother pnina mazal who can read minds, her great grandmother, the legendary beauty, sara, and her great great grandmother, mazal, who was forced to marry young and was abandoned by her husband after giving birth, thus setting the trend of single
a friend of mine raved about this so i got a copy for myself. what a page - turner. i kept thinking
something' s gotta happen soon
and pressed on, but no. nothing happened. four generations in a single book. daughter hates mother, admires grandmother, messes up life, has a baby. or something like that, to be fair i' ve forgotten already. and it didn' t even help me get into my friend' s pants .
a wonderful family saga. this is yet another book which i have read in just a few hours, but it wasn' t due to simple content or easy language. it was just so magical and facinating. exactly the kind of books i like. it is not a fantasy book, but it has an element of fantasy which goes through it in a way which reminds me of' one hundred years of solitude'. this book was aritten by an israeli author, and although it tells the story of an israeli family, and of jerusalem throughout four generations ,
a wonderful family saga. this is yet another book which i have read in just a few hours, but it wasn' t due to simple content or easy language. it was just so magical and facinating. exactly the kind of books i like. it is not a fantasy book, but it has an element of fantasy which goes through it in a way which reminds me of' one hundred years of solitude'. this book was aritten by an israeli author, and although it tells the story of an israeli family, and of jerusalem throughout four generations, it has the feel of an english book which has been translated into hebrew. 20. 3. 07
adam lemp and his four daughters (ann, thea, kay, and emma) find themselves in financial and emotional crises. thea' s husband ben has promoted a florida housing development to everyone in town, and when a hurricane wipes out the investments of all their friends, the lemps decide to pay back the losses, even if it costs them their own home. kay' s husband clint is so devoted to his medical research that he risks losing kay. and ann' s husband felix, encountering kay during an out - of - town trip, finds his loneliness putting his marriage at risk. meanwhile, as a result of the antipathy of the townspeople due to the investment disaster, adam loses his beloved position with the musical society .
pet peeve: miss - using and over - using the phrase ,
had very little to do .
someone picked that up from a professional critic and it keeps getting passed around. it' s not a catchall phrase. does that really apply here? this is the same group carrying the movie as before. it' s a big family, and the immediate members are the focal points. there are four daughters, after all. the husbands are naturally lesser support figures. there is a problem with this one in particular, but let' s s try to be accurate about it. actually, most take issue with this particular script. it' s not the distribution of labor; it' s what the writers did this time. perhaps there was criticism that the family was too squeaky clean or something along that line. they just seemed to disassemble everyone, only to put them back together again - quite artificially in both cases. whatever it was, it was not effective. if you like hanging out with the gang in general, you might enjoy this one for that reason. but, if you want to remember them pretty much as they were, best to skip this one .
a rich and sweeping family saga set in israel over a century, about five remarkable jewish mothers. amal, after giving birth to a son, and thereby breaking the curse of the women of her family explores the lives of her mother, the wayward geula, her grandmother pnina mazal who can read minds, her great grandmother, the legendary beauty, sara, and her great great grandmother, mazal, who was forced to marry young and was abandoned by her husband after giving birth, thus setting the trend of single motherhood which each of the women in the family would be burdened with. full of sites and signs and undercurrents, and many other characters and persons that burst from the pages. it is an epic rich in humanity, erotic, ironic, and full of twists and turns, that will stay in your mind long after you have read it. it traces the many generations of jews that have lived in jerusalem, in a sensitive and thoughtful way. sadly some people in the world cannot recognize humanity. when shifra horn appeared on australian radio to discuss this totally non - political book, the talk show host aggressively interrogated her on the supposed sins of israel' s government, ignoring the book she had come to talk about. some people in the world refuse to recognize the humanity of israel' s jews, dehumanizing them in such a way that resembles europe before the holocaust
n this five - generational tale, the first novel from the israeli writer shifra horn, the family tree is a gnarled and hearty mulberry that grows in the yard of sara, the narrator & apos; s great - grandmother. sara, whose long shining hair was like a & apos; & apos; radiant halo, & apos; & apos; is at the center of this narrative, translated deftly from the hebrew by dalya bilu, in which folklore, mystery and fantasy mingle with 100 years of history in the closely knit neighborhoods of jerusalem. this is not the kind of magic realism in which characters fly, yet the lives of horn & apos; s female characters are punctuated with unlikely coincidences and otherworldly powers. sara is celebrated throughout the city for her homemade rose water, which can alleviate pain, end infertility, mend the soul and more; women line up outside her home for her guidance as a healer and seer. sara & apos; s daughter, pnina - mazal, is able to understand almost every language, including the sounds made by her mentally impaired brother. all the mothers are independent and colorful and, in what seems to be a family curse, each is deserted by her husband soon after marriage. there & apos; s a quiet joy among the women when amal, the youngest, gives birth to a son; they recognize that this bleak legacy may be broken. as though she had been living only for that moment, sara, whose age is & apos; & apos; a day and a night, & apos; & apos; dies. soon after, the mulberry tree dies too. another is planted and flourishes at sara & apos; s grave, crowded with visitors, ever fragrant with the smell of roses .
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shifra horn' s beautifully imagined novel tells the story of five generations of women in one family against the backdrop of one hundred years in jerusalem. the story begins with the birth of the family' s first boy to amal, the last generation. her mother, grandmother and great - grandmother are overjoyed, because the birth of a healthy boy means that the curse against the wom
shifra horn' s beautifully imagined novel tells the story of five generations of women in one family against the backdrop of one hundred years in jerusalem. the story begins with the birth of the family' s first boy to amal, the last generation. her mother, grandmother and great - grandmother are overjoyed, because the birth of a healthy boy means that the curse against the women of the family has been broken. they tell amal the story of those
foremothers
: mazal, the orphan, whose ill - fated marriage initiates the curse; her daughter sara, whose golden hair is a symbol for her power to heal; sara' s daughter pnina - mazal, the unwanted child whose talent for knowing others' thoughts brings both joy and sorrow; and her daughter geula, amal' s mother, whose sharp intellect is her gift and her burden .
i liked the generational saga aspect. i also enjoyed the individual stories regarding each of the women, which wove a tapestry of love, loss, turmoil and even redemption .
loved this book, such an enjoyable read. loved how the author would almost transport you to isarel and the time. how deep love can grow in some and shallow in others .
i wasn' t eager to read this book for my book club. the cover art alone didn' t intrigued me; i found it unlikable. the beginning of the book was slow for me even with my familiarity with some of the traditions and culture it referenced. some reviewers have mentioned in accuracies regarding these elements but i have no such knowledge. still the pace of the story wasn' t encouraging. i relegated the book to my bathroom read. this meant i read only a few pages every day. suddenly to my surprise, i fou
i wasn' t eager to read this book for my book club. the cover art alone didn' t intrigued me; i found it unlikable. the beginning of the book was slow for me even with my familiarity with some of the traditions and culture it referenced. some reviewers have mentioned in accuracies regarding these elements but i have no such knowledge. still the pace of the story wasn' t encouraging. i relegated the book to my bathroom read. this meant i read only a few pages every day. suddenly to my surprise, i found i had read over one half of the book. i also realized that i had reached a point where i wanted to finish the book. partly i was impatient to do so to get the book over with, and partly because i now truly wanted to and hear the end of the author story. i don' t believe that i will be recommending the book to family and friends. but i would not declare the book a bad one .
this book was certainly out of my comfort zone. i am more of a suspense / action reader. i was surprised by how fast this book had me hooked. this book spans 5 generations and goes into detail telling the story of each while giving details of the curse that follows the women of the family. it tells of fame, fortune, poverty, basically any and everything that could happen to a family though out the years. i enjoyed being able to follow the history of the family. the book is rather long but that is
this book was certainly out of my comfort zone. i am more of a suspense / action reader. i was surprised by how fast this book had me hooked. this book spans 5 generations and goes into detail telling the story of each while giving details of the curse that follows the women of the family. it tells of fame, fortune, poverty, basically any and everything that could happen to a family though out the years. i enjoyed being able to follow the history of the family. the book is rather long but that is necessary to give you the information needed to really keep your interest and give you enough background on all of the characters. this book is certainly worth the time spent reading it! i received this book in exchange for an honest review .
a story of 5 generations of women from one family, spanning 100 years. the stories are told by the youngest female in the family. each story is intertwined - the strongest story is about sara (great grandmother) from her pitiful mother to the the great granddaughter who sara believes has broken the curse over their family. it is a riveting story full of history re: jerusalem, the people and customs .
while each individual story of each woman is well - done, the threads between these strong characters are thinly stretched, as if each generation lived almost in isolation from the others. still, powerful characters and it is always interesting to read a story that is grounded in a place i am interested in but do not know well .
although i really liked another one of this author' s books (ode to joy), this one didn' t do anything for me. it' s the story of five generations of women in a family in jerusalem. women in this family somehow have been
cursed
with losing their husbands, one way or another, when they have daughters. for me the story became tedious .
this has been sitting in my bookcase for ages. ages and years. and it was wonderful, chock full of my favorite things: generational stories, magical realism, judaism, and a fairy tale feel. the only thing it needed was an epistolary chapter, and i would' ve declared it perfect. ; )
eh. it' s ok. bought in irael because it is a novel about 4 generations of israeli women... eh. it' s ok .
i have to agree with another reviewer, it was good but there was no real point. it also ended with no real closure on the story .
the liked the book for its portrait of strong women, reminded me of the movie practical magic .
amazing book that empowers women. glad i came across this author to review for my blog. the book was amazing. i couldn' t put it down .
set in jerusalem, this book deals with the lives of 5 generations of women. beautifully written, this author is the jewish equivalent of isabel allende .
something may have gone astray with translation from hebrew; found a few words missing and unusual uses but the story captivates, like a fairytale .
magical realism is always among my favourites. a beautiful story which made me swept away .
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shifra horn was born in tel aviv. she lives in the old malcha neighbourhood of jerusalem and in auckland new zealand. after majoring in bible studies and archeology - ba (hons) - at the hebrew university of jerusalem, she earned an ma in bible studies. horn also studied mass communications and completed a teaching degree. horn worked as an educational officer for the world union of jewish students ,
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it is called the seventh day - the day that will follow and complete the six day war, 35 years after it began .
they say that the
lebanonization
of the territories dictates a
lebanonization
in response - namely, a withdrawal more or less to the 1967 borders. but, with that, the comparison ends .
in the north and those who had sons serving in lebanon .
now we are talking about something that touches the very heart and shape of our society ,
he says .
a leadership that is demanding that the public stand firm must present it with an aim and explain why. we are suggesting an aim and a kind of hope .
the group' s aim is a democratic jewish state that does not occupy another people and does not practice apartheid. the hope is that the terror will one day end, even though reshef does not delude anyone that it will be immediately or as the result of a withdrawal. but a withdrawal from the territories will make it possible to invest in israel' s social fabric - in development towns, education, in social and economic affairs .
members of the movement have come out openly against the group of reserve officers who refuse to serve in the territories and against left - wing activists who see the only key in dialogue with the other side. antebi says that neither the lebanese nor the palestinians, but only the israelis themselves, can decide on the nature of israeli society .
the rifts were hidden from the public eye so as not to jeopardize the efforts to bring about a withdrawal. the movement' s major strength was its ability to gain the attention of the media, including grabbing many headlines that were not always accurate .
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in 1997, two israeli army helicopters collided on the way to lebanon, killing 73 soldiers as they crashed in the front yard of the school that rachel ben dor' s children attended. at the time, ms. ben dor' s oldest son was a soldier in lebanon, and several of his former classmates, recent graduates like him, died .
for years the military and political establishment dismissed them as overly emotional and ignorant of security concerns. but later, after they spawned a significant antiwar movement, they were derided on a baser level. an army commander crudely insulted them using a slur for women earlier this year, but in a signal of how the tide had turned, he was pressed to apologize .
the women once called traitors were embraced by the nation' s most decorated former general, and the whole issue came full circle, dizzyingly for them .
'' there we were inside the defense ministry that we used to picket, kissing and hugging with the prime minister and the army chief,'' said ms. ben dor, 42.'' and all the generals were standing there, thinking i don' t know what. it was so amazing.''
during the early 1980' s, large antiwar rallies challenged israel' s invasion of lebanon. but then the country fell largely silent for more than a decade. israel' s occupation of a what it called a'' security zone'' in southern lebanon, with an annual death toll of 25 to 35 israeli soldiers, became a reality that seemed immutable .
'' it was like a sign from the skies, telling us the whole thing had to be stopped,'' said ms. ben dor, a teacher and mother of three sons.'' for many, many nights afterward, people who had sons in the army didn' t sleep. they were waiting for the devil to come knocking at their door .
'' in israel we are all the time thinking that the army knows what it is doing, and sometimes we have to think twice. someone should say this is crazy, i decided. it was crazy to educate our children to be decent and then at 18 send them places to kill the other people. we should send our children to die because our leaders can' t solve our problems by talking ?
'' and on a more specific level, the army' s plan wasn' t working. if they were in lebanon to protect northern israel, why were the katyusha rockets falling on us?''
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the women began with small street protests at traffic junctions. they wrote letters to lawmakers. they organized debates at northern kibbutzim .
after the first story about them appeared on national television, they received calls from all over the country. working women all, they found themselves at the vanguard of a movement, without any organization, time or money. and they knew that what they were doing would take all that plus endurance .
it also took its toll on their families. one mother quit when her soldier son demanded it. ms. ben zvi had a hard time figuring out how to react when her son, or, won a medal for his fighting in lebanon. he asked her whether she was proud. and with difficulty she told him she was, because'' his reality was the war'' and she had raised him to excel at whatever he did .
'' it was a tremendous miscalculation,'' said ms. ben zvi, a professor. eventually the military understood that the women were shaping national opinion and began to attack their movement as bad for the morale of the soldiers and the country .
understanding the shift in public sentiment, the three leading candidates for prime minister in the last election promised to bring the boys home from lebanon. mr. barak, who took office last july, made it a pledge with a date: by july 7, 2000, he said .
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the israeli army' s most formidable foe is the jewish mother .
the site of israeli citizens who support the immediate withdrawal of i. d. f from lebanon
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sarah would have told god,' forget it' .
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music society head adam lemp (claude rains) and his married daughters, ann, emma and kay, each facing challenges with their husbands and children, learn that their fourth sister, thea, and her husband have lost all their florida real estate property after a hurricane. adam has invested heavily in the land, as have many townspeople on his advice, and a financial crisis quickly engulfs the town. when adam loses the house, the sisters and their husbands pool their talents to find a way through .
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helen butters, janette benaddi, frances davies and niki doeg received a heroes' welcome on their return to their home county of yorkshire after completing the 3, 000 - mile race in february .
and they said the london - based production company archery pictures had optioned the film rights .
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@ yorkshirerows r excited 2 announce archery pictures have optioned our story for a movie .
the women, who all have children at the same school and became friends after taking up rowing at a club in york, formed the plan to take part in the race around three years ago at a boat club dinner .
during their 67 days at sea, the team encountered a hurricane, power failures, attacks from flying fish, seasickness and injuries .
they also revealed they had to row naked after running out of clean clothes and said an equipment failure had left them steering by hand and one rower down at all times .
after their return, the women laughed about which film stars could play them in any movie .
benaddi, 51, and butters, 45, joked that they wanted renee zellwegger and kate winslet to play them but said they would have to master a yorkshire accent first .
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i was truly inspired by the story of these women who prove that you can achieve anything if you set your mind to it .
their positive outlook and humour brings warmth to what is ultimately a hugely formidable challenge and achievement .
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four mothers is the 1941 drama film and sequel to four daughters ( 1938 ) and four wives ( 1939 ) . the film stars claude rains , jeffrey lynn , may robson and featuring the lane sisters : priscilla lane , rosemary lane and lola lane . it was directed by william keighley and is based on the story " sister act " by fannie hurst . the film was released by warner bros. on january 4 , 1941 . the lane sisters appeared in all three films , they also appeared together in the 1939 film daughters courageous . 
four mothers is the 1941 drama film and sequel to four daughters (1938) and four wives (1939). the film stars claude rains, jeffrey lynn, may robson and featuring the lane sisters: priscilla lane, rosemary lane and lola lane. it was directed by william keighley and is based on the story " sister act " by fannie hurst. the film was released by warner bros. on january 4, 1941. the lane sisters appeared in all three films, they also appeared together in the 1939 film daughters courageous.
four mothers is the 1941 drama film and sequel to four daughters (1938) and four wives (1939). the film stars claude rains, jeffrey lynn, may robson and featuring the lane sisters: priscilla lane, rosemary lane and lola lane. it was directed by william keighley and is based on the story " sister act " by fannie hurst. the film was released by warner bros. on january 4, 1941. the lane sisters appeared in all three films, they also appeared together in the 1939 film daughters courageous.