MOVIE
The Farmer Takes a Wife
MusicComedyRomance
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.
Top cast
Betty GrableMolly Larkins
Dale RobertsonDan Harrow
Thelma RitterLucy Cashdollar
John CarrollJotham Klore
Eddie Foy Jr.Fortune Friendly
Charlotte AustinPearl Dowd
Kathleen CrowleySusanna
Merry AndersHannah
May WynnEva Gooch- Juanita EversMs. Kranz (uncredited)
Ruth HallAbbie (uncredited)
Donald KerrJacob (uncredited)
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