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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).
- $1,150,000 (US)
- Frank P. Rosenberg
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
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
Apr 29, 2018 · The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953) 4.4. ( 7) Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore’s canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss.
Farmer Dan Harrow (Henry Fonda) takes a canal boat job to save money for his own land. Mean-spirited Jotham Klore (Charles Bickford) works on the same vessel with his girlfriend, cook Molly ...
- Victor Fleming
- Drama
- Janet Gaynor
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United States. Language. 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.
Set in the early 19th century, the plot details the trials and tribulations of those hardy souls who settled along the Erie Canal. Grable plays Molly Larkin, the girlfriend of rough-and-tumble canal-boat captain Jotham Klore (John Carroll). Much to Klore's dismay, she hires mild-mannered farmer Daniel Harrow (Robertson) to work on the boat.
