The Mating Game

The Mating Game

96 mins | Comedy, Romance | April 29, 1959

Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to estimate the income from the farm, but it isn't easy to calculate when the farmer has such a lovely daughter.

The Mating Game

96 mins | Comedy, Romance | April 29, 1959

The Mating Game
Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to estimate the income from the farm, but it isn't easy to calculate when the farmer has such a lovely daughter.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title The Mating Game
Directors Al Jennings, George Marshall
Writers H. E. Bates, William Roberts

Cast

Debbie Reynolds

as Mariette Larkin

Tony Randall

as Lorenzo Charlton

Paul Douglas

as Pop Larkin

Fred Clark

as Oliver Kelsey

Una Merkel

as Ma Larkin

Philip Ober

as Wendell Burnshaw

Philip Coolidge

as Reverend Osgood

Charles Lane

as Inspector General Bigelow

Trevor Bardette

as Chief Guthrie

William Smith

as Barney

Addison Powell

as David DeGroot

Rickey Murray

as Lee Larkin

Donald Losby

as Grant Larkin

Cheryl Bailey

as Victoria Larkin

Caryl Bailey

as Susan Larkin

Robert Carson

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Gordon Carveth

as Townsman (uncredited)

Gene Coogan

as Townsman (uncredited)

Oliver Cross

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum

as Townsman (uncredited)

Warren Frost

as Secretary (uncredited)

James Gonzalez

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Joseph J. Greene

as Official (uncredited)

Stuart Hall

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Sam Harris

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Bill Hickman

as Fleeing Office Worker (uncredited)