The Farmer Takes a Wife

June. 12,1953      
Rating:
5.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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
Ruth Hall as  Abbie (uncredited)

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