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The Farmer's Daughter

The Farmer's Daughter

Comedy · Romance · 1947

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

Movie details

The Farmer's Daughter

“A Gal with Cultivating Ways!”

1947 Comedy · Romance 1h 37m

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TMDB

7.1 / 10

Community rating

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

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The people responsible.

Directed by

H. C. Potter

Written by

Allen Rivkin · Laura Kerr

Loretta Young

Loretta Young

Katrin Holstrom

Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cotten

Glenn Morley

Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore

Agatha Morley

Charles Bickford

Charles Bickford

Joseph Clancy

Rose Hobart

Rose Hobart

Virginia Thatcher

Rhys Williams

Rhys Williams

Adolph Petree

Harry Davenport

Harry Davenport

Dr. Matthew Sulven

Court is in session

Put The Farmer's Daughter on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.