Parents Jane Wyatt and Donald Cook should have kept adopting kids, as their two biological daughters (Ann Dvorak, Natalie Wood) are nightmarish: the older is jealous, petty, and deliberately cruel, while the younger is a rotten little loudmouthed brat who won't stay out of everyone's business. I wasn't five minutes into the movie before I wanted to strangle the youngest girl with her own pigtails. Otherwise, standard family-style soap opera.