The Farmer's Daughter is a 1947 movie 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.
The movie was adapted by Allen Rivkin and Laura Kerr from the play Juurakon Hulda by Hella Wuolijoki (using the pen name Juhani Tervapää). It was directed by H.C. Potter.
It won the Academy Award for Best Actress (...
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The Farmer's Daughter is a 1947 movie 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.
The movie was adapted by Allen Rivkin and Laura Kerr from the play Juurakon Hulda by Hella Wuolijoki (using the pen name Juhani Tervapää). It was directed by H.C. Potter.
It won the Academy Award for Best Actress (Loretta Young) and was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Charles Bickford).
In 1963, a television series based on the film was produced, starring Inger Stevens, Cathleen Nesbitt and William Windom.
Katie Holstrom (Loretta Young), a Swedish-American, leaves the family farm to go to nursing school in Capitol City. Barn painter Adolph Petree (Rhys Williams), who had completed a job for Katie's father, offers her a ride, but robs her of her money. Katie, refusing to ask her family for help, goes to work as a maid in the home of...
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