The Farmer Takes a Wife | |
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Directed by | Henry Levin |
Written by | Marc Connelly (play) Walter Bullock Sally Benson Joseph Fields |
Based on | The Farmer Takes a Wife 1934 play by Frank B. Elser Rome Haul 1929 novel by Walter D. Edmonds |
Produced by | Frank P. Rosenberg |
Starring | Betty Grable Dale Robertson Thelma Ritter |
Cinematography | Arthur E. Arling |
Edited by | Louis R. Loeffler |
Music by | Harold Arlen Dorothy Fields Orch./Arr. Cyril J. Mockridge |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1,150,000 (US) [1] |
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