Classic Film Guide

Farmer's Daughter, The (1947)

This political campaign film saw Loretta Young receive her Best Actress Oscar & Charles Bickford also get nominated. It focuses on a young Swedish-American woman (Ms. Young) who leaves the family farm to go to the "big" city to earn an education but is bilked out of her money on the way and finds herself working as a maid to a US Senator (Joseph Cotten). During a rally for him, she speaks up for immigrants and is thrust popularly into running as well.

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