The Farmer Takes a Wife

The Farmer Takes a Wife

81 mins | Comedy, Romance, Music | June 12, 1953

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.

The Farmer Takes a Wife

81 mins | Comedy, Romance, Music | June 12, 1953

The Farmer Takes a Wife
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.
IMDb rating 5.3
Producers 20th Century Fox
Original title The Farmer Takes a Wife
Directors Henry Levin
Writers Walter Bullock, Sally Benson, Joseph Fields

Cast

Betty Grable

as Molly Larkins

Dale Robertson

as Dan Harrow

Thelma Ritter

as Lucy Cashdollar

John Carroll

as Jotham Klore

Eddie Foy Jr.

as Fortune Friendly

Charlotte Austin

as Pearl Dowd

Kathleen Crowley

as Susanna

Merry Anders

as Hannah

May Wynn

as Eva Gooch

Juanita Evers

as Ms. Kranz (uncredited)

Ruth Hall

as Abbie (uncredited)

Donald Kerr

as Jacob (uncredited)

Paul McGuire

as Barney (uncredited)

Noreen Michaels

as Amy (uncredited)

Mort Mills

as Floyd (uncredited)

Zon Murray

as Eli (uncredited)

Howard Negley

as Gov. Hamilton Fish (uncredited)

Mel Pogue

as Abner Green (uncredited)

William Pullen

as John (uncredited)

Gene Roth

as Ethan McCarthy (uncredited)

Lee Turnbull

as Andy (uncredited)

Gwen Verdon

as Abigail (uncredited)