The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)

6.3/10 • 91 min • Comedy Romance Western

Overview

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

Berton Churchill

Oliver Wendell Henderson

Charles Richman

Dillon

Frederick Vogeding

Captain

Iron Eyes Cody

Rodeo Indian (uncredited)

Hank Worden

Cowhand Leonard (uncredited)

Irving Bacon

Chester - Smith's Secretary (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum

Cowboy (uncredited)

George Chandler

Reporter (uncredited)

Charles Coleman

Horace Smith's Butler (uncredited)

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