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The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953)

Movie
Audience Score
33
The Farmer Takes a Wife
NR 1 hr 21 minJun 12th, 1953Comedy, Music, Romance
Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss. She hires handsome new haul-horse driver Dan Harrow and the inevitable triangle develops (complicated by Dan's desire to farm and Molly's to boat) against a background of the canalmen's fight against the encroaching railroad.
StarringBetty GrableDale RobertsonThelma Ritter
DirectorHenry Levin

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:June 12th, 1953
Original Language:English
Production Companies:20th Century Fox
Movie Tags:
musical