Young at Heart (Warner), a remake of Fannie Hurst's Four Daughters (1938), is intended as a tearjerker but rates only one piece of Kleenex.
Three pretty sisters (Doris Day, Dorothy Malone, Elisabeth Fraser) live a quiet, homey, small-town life with their father (Robert Keith) and aunt (Ethel Barrymore). Along comes a handsome, egotistical young composer (Gig Young) who sets everybody aflutterbut it is freckle-faced Doris who flips the most.
When it appears that Doris and Gig will make happy music together, bird-like Frank Sinatra shows up wearing a chip on his shoulder. Frankie, a saloon pianist and musical arranger, is on his...
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