Janet Gaynor
Molly Larkins
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The Farmer Takes a Wife: Directed by Henry Levin. With Betty Grable, Dale Robertson, Thelma Ritter, John Carroll. A romantic triangle develops on Erie Canal boats in 1850.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Henry Levin
- 1953-07
The Farmer Takes a Wife: Directed by Victor Fleming. With Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Slim Summerville. Charming love story set on the Erie Canal in the mid-19th Century.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Victor Fleming
- 1935-08-02
Mar 6, 2022 · Charming love story set on the Erie Canal in the mid-19th Century. A farmer works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm. He meets a cook on a canal boat, ...
- 91 min
- 3.3K
- Cinema4Reel
English. The Farmer Takes a Wife is a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by Victor Fleming, written by Edwin J. Burke, and starring Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda (in his screen debut) and Charles Bickford. It is based on the 1934 Broadway play The Farmer Takes a Wife by Marc Connelly and Frank B. Elser, with Fonda reprising his stage role ...
Color (Technicolor) Film Length. 7,267ft (9 reels) 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...
- Henry Levin, Lloyd Allen, Joseph E. Rickards
- Betty Grable
The Farmer Takes a Wife is a 1953 Technicolor musical comedy film starring Betty Grable and Dale Robertson. The picture is a remake of the 1935 film of the same name which starred Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonda. Grable and Dale Robertson first appeared together in the movie Call Me Mister (1951).
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Farmer Takes A Wife, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) I Could've Said A Buffalo Female Tied up overnight in foggy Rochester, Erie Canal boat cook Molly (Janet Gaynor) visits with smitten Dan (Henry Fonda), aspiring farmer and employee on another boat, when her captain Klore (Charles Bickford), a renowned drinker, appears, having observed the lottery drawing, in The Farmer Takes A Wife, 1935.
