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The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
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Release Date:
26 March 1947 (USA) moreTagline:
A Gal Who Really Goes To Town ! morePlot:
Katie Holstrom leaves the farm to become a nurse, but is sidetracked into domestic service, romance, and politics. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Won Oscar. Another 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Hard-to-Resist; Intelligent, Light-hearted Satire; Postwar Political Romance moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Loretta Young | ... | Katrin Holstrom | |
| Joseph Cotten | ... | Glenn Morley | |
| Ethel Barrymore | ... | Agatha Morley | |
| Charles Bickford | ... | Joseph Clancy | |
| Rose Hobart | ... | Virginia Thatcher | |
| Rhys Williams | ... | Adolph Petree | |
| Harry Davenport | ... | Agatha's Doctor | |
| Tom Powers | ... | Hy Nordick | |
| William Harrigan | ... | Ward Hughes | |
| Lex Barker | ... | Olaf Holstrom | |
| Harry Shannon | ... | Mr. Holstrom | |
| Keith Andes | ... | Sven Holstrom | |
| Thurston Hall | ... | Wilbur Johnson | |
| Art Baker | ... | Anders Finley | |
| Don Beddoe | ... | Round-faced Campaign Reporter |
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97 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)Fun Stuff
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The screen rights were initially bought by David O. Selznick. He intended to make it a vehicle for Ingrid Bergman. She declined the role, however. He tried to cast either Dorothy McGuire or Sonja Henie, but eventually sold the rights to RKO Radio Pictures. moreSoundtrack:
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Perhaps this is Loretta Young's best film ever, and best performance ever. This attractive B/W classic satire stars Joseph Cotten as her handsome politico boss, Ethel Barrymore as his understanding mother, and an outstanding cast who support their political and romantic involvements. But Katie Holstrom does not begin this film as a candidate nor anyone's fiancée; she begins it on a farm with her large family with a plan to go to school as a nurse in the big city.What happens next is she leaves, and within one day has been bilked of her savings. The need for a job drives her to seek employment as housemaid to a Congressman, Glenn Morley, played by Cotten, and his mother. Ethel Barrymore. Under the house major-domo Charles Bickford, she proves herself to be possessed of charm, common sense, lively intelligence and honesty--qualities which please well when they are not exasperating her employers, unused to such qualities in a world of politicians. Katrin and Glenn find themselves attracted, despite his having a fiancée (Rose Hobart). But when the party's candidate for Congress has to be dumped, it is Katie who somehow gets chosen to run, and wins. The film's climax is Katie's victory, the ending is the romantic pair's arrival in Washington. The values of this award- winning films are not hidden ones. Milton S. Krasner, cinematography, sets by Darrell Silvers and Harley Miller , Edith Head's costumes and many more contribute to the overall effect. The lighting throughout is like a sunny outdoors; and the actors are outstanding. Along with the leads, the director, H.C. Potter, featured Harry Shannon and Anna Q. Nilsson as Katie's parents, Lex Barker, James Arness and Keith Andes as her brawny brothers, Art Baker, Rhys Williams, William Harrigan, Tom Powers, Thurston Hall and many others. The script by Allen Rivin and Laura Kerr adapts Juhani Tervapää's delightful play seamlessly to the screen. The film's pace is interestingly steady and unhurried, its dialogue good or better at all points. The theme of the plot it to be true to oneself; and the story develops this in terms of a time when an individual could be offered as a candidate on the basis of his/her attributes, not of inherited millions. As refreshing as a summer breeze, and often as delightful. This is a classic of anti- Establishment thinking that is only occasionally political at all. Dservedly popular achievement.