Basically an unnecessary sequel to "Brother Rat", focusing on the three couples from the first film (Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane, Eddie Albert and Jane Bryan, and Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman), out in civilian society so they are playing by other rules, mainly struggles to make ends meet financially. Morris and Lane are dealing with her domineering grandmother (Jessie Busley), while Albert and Bryan face financial issues over parenthood. Wyman and Reagan are basically in support, but she gets some good scenes as her character finds the enjoyment of champagne, and the results of too much of it.
The best moment is the still bespectacled Wyman getting tipsy, something her stern "Falcon Crest" matriarch would look down on, and Wyman is an expert funny lady. But the play wasn't really meant to continue on like the "Four Daughters" sequels, and in the case of the Wayne Morris character, he seems to be completely different than in the first film. Peter B. Good, as the baby Commencement (how's he going to face that in a few years when he goes to school?), is basically "Happy" from "Boy Meets Girl", doing nothing to deserve such high billing. Arthur Treacher is the same, yet still funny, as the typically droll butler. Just your standard domestic comedy and outside of seeing a future president and his first wife, nothing historical motion picture wise.
The best moment is the still bespectacled Wyman getting tipsy, something her stern "Falcon Crest" matriarch would look down on, and Wyman is an expert funny lady. But the play wasn't really meant to continue on like the "Four Daughters" sequels, and in the case of the Wayne Morris character, he seems to be completely different than in the first film. Peter B. Good, as the baby Commencement (how's he going to face that in a few years when he goes to school?), is basically "Happy" from "Boy Meets Girl", doing nothing to deserve such high billing. Arthur Treacher is the same, yet still funny, as the typically droll butler. Just your standard domestic comedy and outside of seeing a future president and his first wife, nothing historical motion picture wise.