

The Cowboy and the Lady
MERLE ropes Gary! GARY brands Merle!
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.
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- English
- rodeo
- blind date
- maid
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- TheatricalNR17 Nov 1938
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- Theatrical2 Aug 1950
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The Cowboy and the Lady was released on 17 November 1938.
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CinemaSerf
6/20/2022
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 doub…
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