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The Cowboy and the Lady

The Cowboy and the Lady

6.259

1938

91 min

Comedy

Romance

Western

Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.

The Cowboy and the Lady

6.259

1938

91 min

Comedy

Romance

Western

Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.

Cast

Gary Cooper

Stretch Willoughby

Merle Oberon

Mary Smith

Patsy Kelly

Katie Callahan

Walter Brennan

Sugar

Fuzzy Knight

Buzz

Mabel Todd

Elly

Henry Kolker

Horace Smith

Harry Davenport

Uncle Hannibal Smith

Emma Dunn

Ma Hawkins

Walter Walker

Ames

Berton Churchill

Oliver Wendell Henderson

Charles Richman

Dillon

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

3 years ago

To be honest, there isn't much substance to this little story. Merle Oberon is "Mary Smith" who lives her life treading on eggshells lest she affect the political reputation of her father. When she manages to convince a couple of her maids to go out on a blind date, they encounter some cowboys in for the rodeo - "Stretch Willoughby" (Gary Cooper) amongst them. They fall in love, elope and now she must juggle the double lives with her new husband and her father. The two stars are clearly having a bit of fun, and they work well together - aided by a few timely scenes with Water Brennan "Sugar" but at 90 minutes the plot wears too thin, pretty quickly and it all rather runs out of steam.