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Down on the Farm

Not Rated

Comedy

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

10-11-1938

1h 1m

Down on the Farm

Backdrop for Down on the Farm

Main Cast

Movie Details

Production Info

Director:: Malcolm St. Clair

Writers:: Robert Ellis, Helen Logan

Production:: 20th Century Fox

Key Crew

Story:: Lynn Root

Producer:: John Stone

Story:: Frank Fenton

Locations and Languages

Country:: US

Filming:: US

Languages:: en

Main Cast

Jed Prouty

Jed Prouty

From Wikipedia Jed Prouty (April 6, 1879 – May 10, 1956) was an American film actor. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Prouty was a vaudeville performer before becoming a film actor. Mostly appearing in comedies, he occasionally performed a serious character role, for instance a small part as an oily publicist in A Star is Born (1937).

Known For

A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born

1937

Libeled Lady

Libeled Lady

1936

The Broadway Melody

The Broadway Melody

1929

Spring Byington

Spring Byington

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Spring Byington (October 17, 1886 – September 7, 1971) was an American actress. Her career included a seven-year run on radio and television as the star of December Bride. She was a key MGM contract player, appearing in films from the 1930s through the 1960s.

Known For

You Can't Take It with You

You Can't Take It with You

1938

Dragonwyck

Dragonwyck

1946

Jezebel

Jezebel

1938

Louise Fazenda

Louise Fazenda

Louise Fazenda (June 17, 1895 – April 17, 1962) was an American film actress, appearing chiefly in silent comedy films.

Known For

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

1933

Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark

1928

The Bat

The Bat

1926

Russell Gleason

Russell Gleason

Russell Gleason (February 6, 1908 – December 25, 1945) was an American actor who began his career at the very beginning of the talking film era. Born into an acting family, one of his earliest roles was in the 1930 classic film, All Quiet on the Western Front. While still in the middle of a successful acting career, Gleason joined the U.S. Army in late 1943, during World War II. While awaiting deployment to Europe in December 1945 in New York City, Gleason fell to his death from a hotel window. He was the son of actors Lucille and James Gleason.

Known For

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

1930

Condemned to Live

Condemned to Live

1935

Swing Fever

Swing Fever

1943

Unknown Actor

Unknown Actor

Known For

Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire

1941

College Boy

The Eagle and the Hawk

The Eagle and the Hawk

1933

Lt. John Stevens

Too Busy to Work

Too Busy to Work

1939

Jack Jones

Unknown Actor

Unknown Actor

Known For

The Plainsman

The Plainsman

1936

A Boy

The Glass Key

The Glass Key

1935

Boy (uncredited)

Too Busy to Work

Too Busy to Work

1939

Roger Jones

Unknown Actor

Unknown Actor

Known For

Too Busy to Work

Too Busy to Work

1939

Lucy Jones

Come Out Fighting

Come Out Fighting

1945

Jane Riley

Checkers

Checkers

1937

Sarah Williams

Florence Roberts

Florence Roberts

Known For

The Life of Emile Zola

The Life of Emile Zola

1937

Les Misérables

Les Misérables

1935

Cleopatra

Cleopatra

1934

Unknown Actor

Unknown Actor

Known For

East of Eden

East of Eden

1955

Townsman at Carnival (uncredited)

Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride

1950

Usher (uncredited)

Too Busy to Work

Too Busy to Work

1939

Bobby Jones

Unknown Actor

Unknown Actor

Known For

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1938

Dopey

The Return of Frank James

The Return of Frank James

1940

Station Agent

Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln

1939

Efe Turner

Unknown Actor

Unknown Actor

Known For

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

1940

Rosasharn

Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln

1939

Carrie Sue (uncredited)

Drums Along the Mohawk

Drums Along the Mohawk

1939

Mary Reall

Unknown Actor

Unknown Actor

Known For

Boys' Reformatory

Boys' Reformatory

1939

Young Girl

The Town Went Wild

The Town Went Wild

1944

Millie Walker

Girls Under 21

Girls Under 21

1940

Sloppy Krupnik

Unknown Actor

Unknown Actor

Known For

High Tension

High Tension

1936

Office Boy

Broken Lullaby

Broken Lullaby

1932

Freckles Comes Home

Freckles Comes Home

1942

Danny Doyle

Unknown Actor

Unknown Actor

Known For

Man Hunt

Man Hunt

1941

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

1940

Deputy with shogun (uncredited)

Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride

1950

Policeman (uncredited)

Unknown Actor

Unknown Actor

Known For

Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon

1937

Meeker (uncredited)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936

Writer (uncredited)

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent

1940

Clark (Jones Family Member) (uncredited)

William Irving

William Irving

William Irving was born on May 17, 1893 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Pampered Youth (1925), Someone in the House (1920) and Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927). He was previously married to Ida I. Germann. He died on December 25, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Known For

The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator

1940

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

1930

It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night

1934

Ernie Adams

Ernie Adams

Ernie Adams (born Ernest Stephen Dumarais, June 18, 1885 – November 26, 1947) was an American vaudevillian performer, stage and screen actor and writer. Born in San Francisco, California to Leon D. Adams and Laurence G. Girard, he was also billed as Ernest S. Adams and Ernie S. Adams. He appeared in vaudeville, theater, and film. He started his career in musical comedy on Broadway. Along with his wife Berdonna Gilbert, he formed the vaudeville team "Gilbert and Adams". He appeared in more than 400 films starting from the silent era between 1919 and 1948, and was particularly known for playing shady characters. On Broadway, Adams appeared in Toot-Toot! (1918). On November 26, 1947, Adams died of an acute pulmonary edema at the West Olympic Sanitarium in Los Angeles, California, aged 62. He is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ernie Adams (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life

1946

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

1930

It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night

1934

Sidney Blackmer

Sidney Blackmer

Sidney Alderman Blackmer (13 July 1895 – 6 October 1973) was an American actor. Blackmer was born and raised in Salisbury, North Carolina. He started off in an insurance and financial business but gave up on it. While working as a builder's laborer on a new building, he saw a Pearl White serial being filmed and immediately decided to go into acting. Blackmer went to New York hoping to act on the stage. While in the city, he took jobs and extra work at various film studios at the then motion picture capital, Fort Lee, New Jersey, including a bit part in the highly popular serial, The Perils of Pauline (1914). He made his Broadway debut in 1917, but his career was interrupted by service in the U.S. military in World War I. After the war, he returned to the theatre and in 1929 returned to motion pictures and went on to be a major character actor in more than 120 films. He won the 1950 Tony Award for Best Actor (Drama) for his role in the Broadway play, Come Back, Little Sheba. In film, Blackmer is remembered for his more than a dozen portrayals of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and for his role in the Academy Award-winning 1968 Roman Polanski film about urban New York witches, Rosemary's Baby, in which he played an over-solicitous neighbor. A humanitarian, Blackmer served as the national vice president of the United States Muscular Dystrophy Association. In 1972, he was honored with the North Carolina Award in the Fine Arts category. It is the state of North Carolina's highest civilian award. On his passing in 1973, Blackmer was interred in the Chestnut Hill Cemetery in his hometown of Salisbury, North Carolina. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sidney Blackmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary's Baby

1968

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo

1934

High Society

High Society

1956

Dick Elliott

Dick Elliott

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard "Dick" Elliott (April 30, 1886 – December 22, 1961) was an American character actor who played in over 240 films from the 1930s until the time of his death. He was born Richard Damon Elliott in Boston, Massachusetts. Elliott played many different roles, typically as a somewhat blustery sort, such as a politician. A short, fat man, Elliott played Santa Claus on the Jimmy Durante, Red Skelton, and Jack Benny programs. Elliott had a couple of memorable lines in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), in which he scolded James Stewart, who was trying to say goodnight to Donna Reed, advising him to stop hemming and hawing and "just go ahead and kiss her". He also had a few memorable appearances in episodes of the Adventures of Superman television series. He appeared three times as Stanley on the CBS sitcom December Bride, as well as on two of ABC/Warner Brothers' western series, Sugarfoot and Maverick. He was cast as the prospector Peter Cooper and then as Sheriff Tiny Morris in two segments of CBS's Tales of the Texas Rangers. He appeared twice as Doc Thornton on ABC's The Real McCoys. Elliott is perhaps best known as Mayberry's Mayor Pike in early episodes of CBS's The Andy Griffith Show, one of his last screen works. In two of the eleven episodes featuring Elliot as mayor, actress Josie Lloyd portrayed his daughter. On December 22, 1961, Elliott died from heart illness.

Known For

It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life

1946

High Noon

High Noon

1952

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939

Harrison Greene

Harrison Greene

Harrison Greene was an American screen actor. He appeared in more than 230 films from 1931 to 1946.

Known For

Texas

Texas

1941

The More the Merrier

The More the Merrier

1943

Murders in the Rue Morgue

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1932

Unknown Actor

Unknown Actor

Known For

Manhattan Melodrama

Manhattan Melodrama

1934

Young Spud (uncredited)

Fugitive from a Prison Camp

Fugitive from a Prison Camp

1940

Burly Bascomb

Love and Hisses

Love and Hisses

1937

Newsboy

Si Jenks

Si Jenks

Known For

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind

1939

Stagecoach

Stagecoach

1939

Duel in the Sun

Duel in the Sun

1946

Fred Kelsey

Fred Kelsey

Frederick Alvin Kelsey (August 20, 1884 – September 2, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Kelsey directed one- and two-reel films for Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1911 and 1958, often playing policemen or detectives. He also directed 37 films between 1914 and 1920. Kelsey was caricatured as the detective in the 1943 MGM cartoon Who Killed Who? directed by Tex Avery. He was born in Sandusky, Ohio and died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Hollywood, California, aged 77.

Known For

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce

1945

They Died with Their Boots On

They Died with Their Boots On

1941

To Catch a Thief

To Catch a Thief

1955

Alexander Leftwich

Alexander Leftwich

Known For

Dark Victory

Dark Victory

1939

Second Chorus

Second Chorus

1941

Women in the Wind

Women in the Wind

1939

Wilfred Lucas

Wilfred Lucas

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wilfred Lucas (January 30, 1871 – December 13, 1940) was a Canadian-born American stage actor who found success in film as an actor, director, and screenwriter. Wilfred Lucas made his Broadway debut in 1904, playing in both the The Blue Grass Handicap and The Superstition of Sue. Following his 1906 role in the highly successful play The Chorus Lady, he was recruited to the fledgling Biograph Studios by D. W. Griffith. At the time, the film business was still looked down upon by many members of the theatrical community. In her 1925 book titled When the Movies Were Young, Griffith's wife, actress Linda Arvidson, told the story of the early days at Biograph Studios. In it, she referred to Lucas as the "first real grand actor, democratic enough to work in Biograph movies." In 1908 Lucas made his motion picture debut in Griffith's The Greaser's Gauntlet, appearing in more than 50 of these short (usually 17 minutes) films over the next two years. In 1910 while still acting, he wrote the script for Griffith's film Sunshine Sue, which was followed by many more scripts by 1924. Lucas also began directing in 1912 with Griffith on An Outcast Among Outcasts, and directed another 44 films over the next 20 years. In early 1916 he starred as John Carter in Acquitted, about which Photoplay wrote, "No single performance in the records of active photography has surpassed his visualization of the humble book-keeper in Acquitted." Later in 1916 he appeared in D.W. Griffith's film Intolerance. Part of the group of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood, Lucas became friends and sometimes starred with Mary Pickford, Sam De Grasse, and Marie Dressler. Canadian-born director Mack Sennett hired him to both direct and act in a large number of films at his Keystone Studios. Lucas made the successful transition from silent film to sound. While working in Hollywood, in 1926 he returned to the stage, performing in several Broadway plays. He later appeared as a foil for Laurel and Hardy in their feature films Pardon Us and A Chump at Oxford. During his long career, Wilfred Lucas appeared in more than 375 films. Although for a time he was cast in leading roles, he became very successful as secondary and minor characters, making a good living in the film industry for more than three decades.

Known For

Modern Times

Modern Times

1936

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939

Dodge City

Dodge City

1939

Francis Sayles

Francis Sayles

Francis Sayles was born on November 22, 1891 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Black Legion (1937), The Purple Vigilantes (1938) and Midnight Phantom (1935). He died on March 19, 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Known For

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

1941

The Pride of the Yankees

The Pride of the Yankees

1942

Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire

1941

Syd Saylor

Syd Saylor

Known For

The Greatest Show on Earth

The Greatest Show on Earth

1952

Gaslight

Gaslight

1944

The Spirit of St. Louis

The Spirit of St. Louis

1957

Unknown Actor

Unknown Actor

Known For

The Killers

The Killers

1946

Fight Arena Doctor (uncredited)

The Pride of the Yankees

The Pride of the Yankees

1942

First Paper Hanger (uncredited)

Woman of the Year

Woman of the Year

1942

Red Face (uncredited)