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The Farmer's Wife (play)

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After his wife dies, a farmer goes through an elaborate attempt to persuade one of his various female neighbours to marry him without realising that the ideal woman is already working as his
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Two versions of the play were made for UK television: in 1955, adapted and directed by Owen Reed, and in 1959, directed by Patrick Dromgoole as part of the
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went on tour in the lead role, the play had already been performed 1,300 times.
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The Farmer's Wife (disambiguation)
romantic comedy
Eden Phillpotts
Birmingham
Royal Court Theatre
Laurence Olivier
housekeeper
separate film in 1928
Norman Walker
The Farmer's Wife
Alfred Hitchcock
Jameson Thomas
Lillian Hall-Davis
The Farmer's Wife
Leslie Arliss
Basil Sydney
Patricia Roc
Saturday Playhouse
BBC Radio
Broadway
Courtin' Time
Jack Lawrence
Don Walker
William Roos


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