The Farmer Takes a Wife

Jun 12, 1953

1h 21m

★ 3.3

Overview

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.

Genres

Music

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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Cast

Molly Larkins

Betty Grable

Dan Harrow

Dale Robertson

Lucy Cashdollar

Thelma Ritter

Jotham Klore

John Carroll

Fortune Friendly

Eddie Foy Jr.

Pearl Dowd

Charlotte Austin

Susanna

Kathleen Crowley

Hannah

Merry Anders

Eva Gooch

May Wynn

Ms. Kranz (uncredited)

Juanita Evers

Abbie (uncredited)

Ruth Hall

Jacob (uncredited)

Donald Kerr

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