THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE
(20th Century-Fox) LIND Nature (you might say). created Betty Grable for one kind of picture and one kind only, and it’s certainly not the kind .that accommo. dates itself very happily to ground-level hem-lines. That, however, is the kind of costume piece this is. The Farmer Takes a Wife tries to take us back to che days before the simple bargees of the old Erie Canal were put out of business by the railroad. It’s supposed to be a musical comedy, but I couldn’t conscientiously say I. found it either musical or comic. True, there is much pleasant Technicolor-how gay the bargees’ girls look, how pastel-painted the . barges! Miss Grable sings, and her sparrowchirp is. more harmonious than Lana Turner’s' husky Merry Widow, but I can’t see her endangering Dinah Shore’s meal-ticket. I sympathised most with Thelma Ritter. For once her characteristic puzzled look was manifestly more. than, skin deep i
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 741, 25 September 1953, Page 19
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156THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 741, 25 September 1953, Page 19
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