The Farmer Takes a Wife

Charming love story set on the Erie Canal in the mid-19th Century. A farmer works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm. He meets a cook on a canal boat, but she can't even consider leaving the exciting life on the canal for a banal one on a farm...

Director

Victor Fleming

Writer

Walter D. Edmonds (novel), Marc Connelly (play), Frank B. Elser (play)

Released

2 Aug 1935

Country

USA