B.F.'s Daughter (1948)
- Starring:
- Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, (more)
- Director(s):
- Robert Z. Leonard
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Synopsis of B.F.'s Daughter
Barbara Stanwyck plays Polly Fulton, rebellious daughter of a wealthy industrialist (Charles Coburn). Polly marries a conservative economist professor (Richard Hart), but she chafes at his values and leaves him for socialist professor Van Heflin. Polly nearly ruins both her father's reputation and her own by embracing Heflin's radicalism. Based on a novel by J. P. Marquand, B.F.'s Daughter emerges as an unsubtle swipe at the policies of the late president Franklin Roosevelt; perhaps this was at the behest of MGM's arch-Republican head man Louis B. Mayer. In England, where the letters "B. F." comprise a euphemism for "bloody fool", the film was retitled Polly Fulton. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of B.F.'s Daughter
- Barbara Stanwyck - Polly Fulton
- Charles Coburn - B.F. Fulton
- Richard Hart - Robert S. Tasmin
- Spring Byington - Gladys Fulton
- Barbara Laage - Eugenia Tatis
- Fred Nurney - Olaf
- Helen Spring - Mrs. Barstow
- Tito Vuolo - Waiter
- Edwin Cooper - Gen. Waldron
- Geraldine Wall - Secretary
- Sam Harris - Wedding Guest
- Anne O'Neal - Receptionist
- Laura Treadwell - Emily Lovelace
- Tom Fadden - Mr. Holmquist
- Wyndham Standing - F.W. White
- Pierre Watkin - Joe Stewart
- David Newell - Captain
- Van Heflin - Thomas W. Brett
- Keenan Wynn - Martin Delwyn Ainsley
- Margaret Lindsay - Apples Sandler
- Marshall Thompson - Sailor
- Thomas E. Breen - Maj. Riley
- Davison Clark - Doorman
- Clarence Hennecke - Conductor
- Elspeth Dudgeon - Mrs. Marbey
- Joe Recht - Soldier
- Edna Holland - Maurine
- Bill Harbach - Co-Pilot
- Dorothy Neumann - Girl with glasses
- George Spaulding - Fred Lovelace
- Hal K. Dawson - Frederick X. Gibson
- Josette Deegan - Girl
- Barbara Laage - Eugenia Taris
- Director(s):
- Robert Z. Leonard
- Writer(s):
- Luther Davis
- Producer(s):
- Edwin H. Knopf
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