The Farmer Takes a Wife
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Release: 1953-06-12
·Runtime: 81m
·★ 3.3
Music
Comedy
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
20th Century Fox
Cast
Zon Murray
as Eli (uncredited)
Howard Negley
as Gov. Hamilton Fish (uncredited)
William Pullen
as John (uncredited)
Gene Roth
as Ethan McCarthy (uncredited)
Eddie Foy Jr.
as Fortune Friendly
May Wynn
as Eva Gooch
Donald Kerr
as Jacob (uncredited)
Mort Mills
as Floyd (uncredited)
Betty Grable
as Molly Larkins
Thelma Ritter
as Lucy Cashdollar
John Carroll
as Jotham Klore
Merry Anders
as Hannah
Ruth Hall
as Abbie (uncredited)
Gwen Verdon
as Abigail (uncredited)
Dale Robertson
as Dan Harrow
Charlotte Austin
as Pearl Dowd
Kathleen Crowley
as Susanna
