The Farmer's Daughter (1947)

After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.

Director:

H.C. Potter

Writers:

Allen Rivkin, Laura Kerr

Stars:

Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore

Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Loretta Young	...	Katrin Holstrom
Joseph Cotten	...	Glenn Morley
Ethel Barrymore	...	Mrs. Morley
Charles Bickford	...	Clancy
Rose Hobart	...	Virginia
Rhys Williams	...	Adolph
Harry Davenport	...	Dr. Matthew Sutven
Tom Powers	...	Nordick
William Harrigan	...	Ward Hughes
Keith Andes	...	Sven
Harry Shannon	...	Mr. Holstrom
Lex Barker	...	Olaf
Thurston Hall	...	Wilbur Johnson
Art Baker	...	A. J. Finley
Don Beddoe	...	Einar

Storyline

Swedish-American farmer's daughter Katrin 'Katie' Holstrom leaves the farm to study nursing in the big, wicked city. Thanks to a chiseling acquaintance, her tuition and expense money disappears the first day, and she's forced to get a job...as a domestic for congressman Glenn Morley. Impressed by her political awareness as well as her many charms and capabilities, Glenn is soon infatuated with Katie, and she with him, but their feelings remain unspoken...until Katie speaks up at a party rally and is abruptly thrust into politics herself.

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Plot Keywords:

politics | farmers daughter | congressman | election | maid | 

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Taglines:

A Gal Who Really Goes To Town !

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Swedish

Release Date:

26 March 1947 (USA)

Also Known As:

Katie for Congress

Filming Locations:

Wilshire Ebell Theatre - 4401 W. 8th St., Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

RKO Radio Pictures, Dore Schary Productions, Vanguard Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Lux Radio Theater broadcast a sixty-minute radio adaptation of this movie on January 5, 1948 with Loretta Young and Joseph Cotten reprising their film roles.

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Quotes

Eckers: [addressing a large political convention] And I tell you, in every son of lan on fasfaloose, you will find histerec of abalac populashous.
[crowd cheers wildly]

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Connections

Version of Juurakon Hulda (1937)

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Soundtracks

Row, Row, Row
(uncredited)
Music by James V. Monaco
Lyrics by William Jerome

User Reviews

Katie For Congress

The Farmer's Daughter is a disarmingly charming comedy from the late forties featuring an Oscar-winning performance by Loretta Young in the title role, as a farm-girl turned housemaid in a congressman's family who steals her boss's heart. The rest of the cast give nicely tuned performance, with no real hamming from anyone, which in the case of Ethel Barrymore as the family matriarch, is somewhat surprising, as she tended to overdo it with her eyes and that patrician voice,--but not here. Joseph Cotten's natural good natured goofiness works well in the film, and like Miss Barrymore, he reins himself in more than usual here. Charles Bickford as the butler is fine also. The best performance in the movie for my money, though, is that of Rhys Williams, as an amorous and amoral house-painter who is also the villain of the piece. Director Hank Potter paces the film well, and the sets are excellently designed and beautiful to behold, especially that of the main house. There's a lot of surface intelligence in the movie, if not much real braininess despite, near the end, its attempt to wring some Capraesque meaning from its slight story. A very good but not great film, this one's worth seeing for what passed for upper echelon if not quite top of the line entertainment a half century or more ago.