The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)

Synopsis: In this entertaining romantic comedy, a rodeo rider named Stretch, played with ample charm by Gary Cooper, falls in love with a cunning bored aristocrat named Mary Smith (Merle Oberon). After having convinced the two maids from her house... In this entertaining romantic comedy, a rodeo rider named Stretch, played with ample charm by Gary Cooper, falls in love with a cunning bored aristocrat named Mary Smith (Merle Oberon). After having convinced the two maids from her house to keep her cover, Mary drags them on a girls night out, meets Stretch, and tells him that she is a parlor maid and that she has run away from home to escape her father's beatings. In reality Mary has gone undercover hoping to outwit her father who is a wealthy presidential candidate. Henry Kolker is formidable as Mary's father Horace, and one actually likes him enough to hope he doesn't discover his daughter's charade. Without letting Stretch know her true identity, Mary eventually convinces him to elope aboard a ship where even more humorous confusion transpires. H.C.Potter directs and keeps the duel story line tight. Leo McCarey cowrote the story and the lively screenplay boasts contributions from Anita Loos and Dorothy Parker. [More]

Starring: Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon, Patsy Kelly, Walter Brennan

Starring: Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon, Patsy Kelly, Walter Brennan, Fuzzy Knight, Harry Davenport, Henry Kolker, Emma Dunn, Walter Walker, Mabel Todd

Director: H.C. Potter

Director: H.C. Potter
Screenwriter: S. N. Behrman, Sonya Levien
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Composer: Alfred Newman

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