The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953)

4.3/10 81 min Music Comedy Romance

Overview

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 Grable

Molly Larkins

Dale Robertson

Dan Harrow

Thelma Ritter

Lucy Cashdollar

John Carroll

Jotham Klore

Eddie Foy Jr.

Fortune Friendly

Charlotte Austin

Pearl Dowd

Kathleen Crowley

Susanna

Merry Anders

Hannah

May Wynn

Eva Gooch

Ruth Hall

Abbie (uncredited)

Donald Kerr

Jacob (uncredited)

Mort Mills

Floyd (uncredited)

Zon Murray

Eli (uncredited)

Howard Negley

Gov. Hamilton Fish (uncredited)

William Pullen

John (uncredited)

Gene Roth

Ethan McCarthy (uncredited)

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