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The Farmer Takes a Wife is a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by Victor Fleming, written by Edwin J. Burke, and starring Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda (in his screen debut) and Charles Bickford.
The Farmer Takes a Wife: Directed by Victor Fleming. With Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Slim Summerville. Charming love story set on the Erie Canal in the mid-19th Century. A farmer works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Victor Fleming
- 1935-08-02
The Farmer Takes a Wife is a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by Victor Fleming, written by Edwin J. Burke, and starring Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda (in his screen debut) and Charles Bickford.
The Farmer Takes a Wife is a 1934 play by Frank B. Elser and Marc Connelly based on the 1929 novel Rome Haul by Walter D. Edmonds. It was well-received upon its opening night on Broadway on October 30, 1934, at the 46th Street Theatre.
The Farmer Takes a Wife: Directed by Henry Levin. With Betty Grable, Dale Robertson, Thelma Ritter, John Carroll. A romantic triangle develops on Erie Canal boats in 1850.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Henry Levin
- 1953-07
The Farmer Takes a Wife is a 1935 comedy that stars veteran silent film actress Janet Gaynor and a young Henry Fonda in his first big-screen role. Fonda plays a young farmer named Dan who takes a job on the Erie Canal driving a supply boat in an effort to save money to buy his own farm.
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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 ...