The Farmer's Daughter ( Katie for Congress )

The Farmer's Daughter (DVD) (*)

$27.99

Original Title: Katie for Congress
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
97 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1947 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
H.C. Potter

Written By:
Allen Rivkin
Laura Kerr

Actors:
Loretta Young ..... Katrin Holstrom
Joseph Cotten ..... Glenn Morley
Ethel Barrymore ..... Agatha Morley
Charles Bickford ..... Joseph Clancy
Rose Hobart ..... Virginia Thatcher
Rhys Williams ..... Adolph Petree
Harry Davenport ..... Dr. Matthew Sulven
Tom Powers ..... Hy Nordick
William Harrigan ..... Ward Hughes
Lex Barker ..... Olaf Holstrom
Harry Shannon ..... Mr. Holstrom
Keith Andes ..... Sven Holstrom
Thurston Hall ..... Wilbur Johnson
Art Baker ..... Anders J. Finley
Don Beddoe ..... Einar - Campaign Reporter

Synopsis:

When Loretta Young stepped up to accept her Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter, the ever-youthful leading lady, who'd been in films since 1928, sighed 'At long last!' Young is cast as Katie Holstrum, an independently-minded Swedish girl who leaves her family's Minnesota farm to take a domestic job at the Washington DC home of congressman Glenn Morley Joseph Cotten. Katie's outspokeness and Scandanavian common sense immediately endears her to Morley, his mother Ethel Barrymore, and the family's crusty-but-kindly butler Clancy Charles Bickford. Sensing that the political machine backing Morley isn't thoroughly honest, Katie takes an active hand in Washington politics, leading to her own nomination for a congressional seat. The machine-boss villains (depicted rather provocatively as right-wing reactionaries) try to discredit Katie on the eve of the election, but she is rescued by Morley, who of course has fallen in love with her. Adapted from Juurakon Hulda (Hulda, Daughter of Parliament), a Finnish play written by Hella Wuolijoki (using the pen name Juhani Tervapää), which had originally been optioned as a potential vehicle for Ingrid Bergman, The Farmer's Daughter later matriculated into a weekly TV series, with Inger Stevens as Katie and William Windom as Morley.

Swedish-American farmer's daughter Katrin 'Katie' Holstrom leaves the farm to study nursing in the big, wicked city. Thanks to a chiseling acquaintance, her tuition and expense money disappears the first day, and she's forced to get a job...as a domestic for congressman Glenn Morley. Impressed by her political awareness as well as her many charms and capabilities, Glenn is soon infatuated with Katie, and she with him, but their feelings remain unspoken...until Katie speaks up at a party rally and is abruptly thrust into politics herself.

A beautiful Swedish girl leaves her home in the country with the intent of going to nursing school. She doesn't make it far before she's bilked out of all her money. As she tries to amass the necessary funds, she takes a job as a servant in the home of a wealthy Senator and begins to have political aspirations of her own. Oh, yes. She falls in love on the way to Capitol Hill, too.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 20 November, 2011.

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