The Farmer Takes a Wife
- Released on
Music, Comedy, Romance
•- Runtime
- 81 mins
(3 votes)
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.
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.
Cast
- Betty Grable
- Dale Robertson
- Thelma Ritter
- John Carroll
- Eddie Foy Jr.
- Charlotte Austin
- Kathleen Crowley
- Merry Anders
- May Wynn
- Juanita Evers
- Ruth Hall
- Donald Kerr
- Paul McGuire
- Noreen Michaels
- Mort Mills
- Zon Murray
- Howard Negley
- Mel Pogue
- William Pullen
- Gene Roth
- Lee Turnbull
- Gwen Verdon
Director
- Henry Levin
Producers
Screenwriter
- Sally Benson
- Joseph Fields
- Walter Bullock