The Farmer's Daughter (1947)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

H.C. Potter

Writers:

Hella Wuolijoki (play)
Allen Rivkin (writer) ...

Release Date:

26 March 1947 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

A Gal Who Really Goes To Town !

Plot:

Katie Holstrom leaves the farm to become a nurse, but is sidetracked into domestic service, romance, and politics.

Plot Keywords:

Politics | Farmers Daughter | Congressman | Campaign | Mother Son Relationship

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 1 nomination

Cast

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

Also Known As:

Katie for Congress (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Swedish

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Iceland:L | Finland:S | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

Ebell Theater - 4401 W. 8th Street, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Dore Schary Productions

Trivia:

On a cold day, Katrin prepares a drink called glogg for Glenn. Glogg is usually made from claret, aquavit, sugar, cloves, cardamom, orange peel, and raisins. It is ignited before being served.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Golden Girls: Questions and Answers (#7.17)" (1992)

Soundtrack:

Row, Row, Row

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.