The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953)
81 min
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.
- Release date
- June 12, 1953
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Cyril J. Mockridge
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
- Abdullah Abbas as Townsman
Crew
- Henry Levin · Director
- Walter Bullock · Writer
- Sally Benson · Writer
- Joseph Fields · Writer
- Frank B. Elser · Writer
- Frank P. Rosenberg · Producer
- Cyril J. Mockridge · Composer
- Arthur E. Arling · Cinematographer
- Louis R. Loeffler · Editor