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Come and Get It is a 1936 American lumberjack drama film directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler. The screenplay by Jane Murfin and Jules Furthman is based on the 1935 novel of the same title by Edna Ferber. For his performance as Swan Bostrom, Walter Brennan became the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Come and Get It: Directed by Howard Hawks, William Wyler, Richard Rosson. With Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan. An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
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- Drama, Romance
- Howard Hawks, William Wyler, Richard Rosson
- 1936-12-23
Come and Get It (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Roosevelt Lumber tycoon Barney Glasgow (Edward Arnold) gripes about Teddy Roosevelt's tree-hugging for his son (Joel McCrea), daughter (Andrea Leeds) and suffering wife (Mary Nash) in Samuel Goldwyn's Come and Get It, 1936, from the Edna Ferber novel.
In 1884, lumberman Barney Glasgow leaves his true love, saloon singer Lotta Morgan, to marry Emma Louise, his boss's daughter. His buddy Swan Bostrom marries Lotta instead. Barney becomes a lumber magnate by stripping the Wisconsin forests, without re-planting.
Jul 17, 2020 · Richard Brody reviews Howard Hawks’s “Come and Get It,” from 1936, now available to stream, on Amazon Prime.
In 1880s Wisconsin, ambitious lumberjack Barney Glasgow (Edward Arnold) loves saloon girl Lotta (Frances Farmer) but spurns her and marries to advance his career.
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Overview. An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter. Howard Hawks. Director. William Wyler. Director. Richard Rosson. Director. Edna Ferber.