Come and Get It (1936)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Directors:

Howard Hawks
Richard Rosson

Writers:

Edna Ferber (novel)
Jane Murfin (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

1 February 1937 (Denmark)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.

Plot Keywords:

Saloon | Singer | Wisconsin | Lumberjack | Logging

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 1 nomination

Cast

Edward Arnold	...	Barney Glasgow
Joel McCrea	...	Richard Glasgow
Frances Farmer	...	Lotta Morgan / Lotta Bostrom
Walter Brennan	...	Swan Bostrom
Mady Christians	...	Karie Linbeck - Swan's Niece
Mary Nash	...	Emma Louise Glasgow
Andrea Leeds	...	Evvie Glasgow
Frank Shields	...	Tony Schwerke
Edwin Maxwell	...	Sid LeMaire
Cecil Cunningham	...	Josie - Barney's Secretary
Charles Halton	...	Mr. Jed Hewitt

Also Known As:

Roaring Timber (USA) (reissue title)
Roaring Timbers (USA) (reissue title)

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Wide Range Noiseless Recording)

Certification:

USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #2793)

Filming Locations:

Clearwater River, Idaho, USA

Company:

Howard Productions

Trivia:

Director Howard Hawks was replaced by William Wyler after Hawks was rude to producer Samuel Goldwyn.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Hill Street Blues: Come and Get It (#6.22)" (1986)

Soundtrack:

Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair

Dazzling beautiful, dazzling real

When Frances Farmer was a drama student at the University of Washington she won a scholarship to visit Russia and watch the Moscow Art Theater headed by the great actor and director, Konstantin Stanislavski. When that Russian company first came to tour the United States in the 1920s, the truthfulness and expressivity of the acting so impressed many of America's best young actors that they eventually formed The Group Theater (1931-1940),modeling their ensemble work on it. In 1937 The Group Theater invited Frances Farmer, a non-member of the company, to play the female lead in Clifford Odets' new play "Golden Boy." At the time it was thought by many that the sole reason for the invitation was because Farmer was a beautiful movie star whose presence would boost box office. Today anyone who sees her remarkable work in the dual roles of Lotta in "Come and Get It" (1936) will recognize that not only was she dazzling beautiful, she was also dazzling real and painfully truthful --a true actress in the Stanislavski tradition. No wonder Howard Hawks said she was the best actress he had ever worked with in his long career.