Underplayed Gems

The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953)

The Farmer Takes a Wife poster
Directed by
Henry Levin
Genre
romantic comedy, musical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 21m
Rating
4.2 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A farmer and a woman from the city navigate a romance set in rural America. The story follows their courtship and the challenges that come from their different backgrounds.

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What happens

The Farmer Takes a Wife is a 1953 Technicolor musical comedy film starring Betty Grable and Dale Robertson. The picture is a remake of the 1935 film of the same name which starred Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonda. Grable and Dale Robertson first appeared together in the movie Call Me Mister (1951). A Gable biographer called it "probably the weakest film in Grable's oevure, owing mostly to its mundane screenplay and turgid, uninspired, staging." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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