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The Farmer's DaughterLightweight romantic comedy in which Young's Swedish farm girl (the accent has a tendency to falter) puts her career in nursing on hold to go into service for Senator Cotten and his elderly mother (Barrymore). Cotten is soon spooning over the new maid, who's a bit more politically aware than the previous one - and love is declared in a daft scene at an electoral rally. There's a hard little story about democracy and privilege lurking somewhere under the bows and taffeta of Potter's movie - but it's all safely subsumed into romantic by-play between the two leads. It's hardly incendiary - she's not a collective farmer's daughter, after all.
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