Añade un argumento en tu idiomaA romantic triangle develops on Erie Canal boats in 1850.A romantic triangle develops on Erie Canal boats in 1850.A romantic triangle develops on Erie Canal boats in 1850.
Abdullah Abbas
- Townsman
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Nancy Abbate
- Little Girl
- (sin acreditar)
Robert Adler
- Townsman
- (sin acreditar)
Fred Aldrich
- Boater
- (sin acreditar)
John Butler
- Drunk
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Harry Carter
- Boatman
- (sin acreditar)
John Close
- Boater
- (sin acreditar)
Bill Coontz
- Dancer
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- CuriosidadesThe press book mentions that a 1-reel production number that was rehearsed for a month and filmed with Betty Grable was cut before release.
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Lucy Cashdollar: Don't forget, I'm a five-time widow, and when they died they all left me everything they owned. Rest their souls.
Fortune Friendly: What do you want with me? I'm broke.
Lucy Cashdollar: Well, I figure after five rich husbands, the next one would be on the house.
- ConexionesFeatured in Merely Marvelous: The Dancing Genius of Gwen Verdon (2019)
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"You look good enough to eat." ... "Wait'll you taste my cooking."
Agreeable 20th Century-Fox musical, a remake of their 1935 Janet Gaynor-Henry Fonda comedy-romance, based on the novel and play "Rome Haul", is uncertainly directed, full of static staging, and embarrassed by at least one terrible dance number--but it does have Betty Grable, full of her usual sass and vigor (which this vehicle definitely needs). On the Erie Canal in 1850, a young lovely and her fiancé/business partner run a barge hauling supplies (she cooks, he drinks); she hires a horse-driver to pull the barge, a low-keyed farmer with a sweetheart in Chicago, but when her fiancé is thrown in jail for fighting with the incoming railroad folk, the girl goes into partnership with the handsome newcomer, sparking romance. Director Henry Levin doesn't seem to know anything about staging a musical number on the screen; though the mediocre songs by Harold Arlen and Dorothy Fields are clearly no help to him, Levin hasn't paced the narrative with the energy needed for a musical, and the introductions to each song are creaky with hesitation. "We're in Business", featuring Gwen Verdon (who pops in without an introduction), is the worst of the lot, while the reprise of "Today I Love Everybody" includes a brief vocal by Thelma Ritter that proves the actress can't do everything. Grable and quiet, polite Dale Robertson aren't an exciting match, but his gentle tone cools down her brashness. There's a streak of early feminism in Grable's character when she flatly refuses to become a farmer's wife (without her feelings on the matter even being considered!), which is then abandoned in the face of true love, however she and Robertson look good together. The color is gloppy, and the finale--where Levin apparently chose to move the material back to its stage roots--is perplexing, yet the movie is upbeat and pleasurable despite its faults. **1/2 from ****
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- moonspinner55
- 5 dic 2015
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By what name was The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953) officially released in India in English?
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