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The Farmer Takes a Wife
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The Farmer Takes a Wife

1953
Directed byHenry Levin
1h 21m

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 GrableMolly LarkinsDale RobertsonDan HarrowThelma Ritter
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Lucy Cashdollar
John CarrollJotham Klore
Eddie Foy Jr.Fortune Friendly
Charlotte AustinPearl Dowd
Kathleen CrowleySusanna
Merry AndersHannah
May WynnEva Gooch
Juanita EversMs. Kranz (uncredited)
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MusicComedyRomance
STATUSReleased
RATING
3.3

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