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The Farmer's Daughter

1947 · Movie · 100 min

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  • Rotten Tomatoes average7.1/10as of 2021-10-05

What it is

The Farmer's Daughter is a 1947 American comedy film directed by H.C. Potter that tells the story of a farmgirl who ends up working as a maid for a Congressman and his politically powerful mother. It stars Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, and Charles Bickford, and was adapted by Allen Rivkin and Laura Kerr from the 1937 Finnish play Juurakon Hulda by Hella Wuolijoki, using the pen name Juhani Tervapää.

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Genres
Romance / Comedy
Original language
English

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