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.
Acting
Cooper's aw-shucks sincerity vs Oberon's brittle sparkle.
Costume
Oberon's Palm Beach whites vs Cooper's dusty denim.
Director
H. C. Potter
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
Frederick Vogeding
Captain
Iron Eyes Cody
Rodeo Indian (uncredited)
Hank Worden
Cowhand Leonard (uncredited)
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