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The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953)
Directed by Henry Levin
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.
Length 81 minutes
Actors
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