Come and Get It (film)
Come and Get It is a 1936 American drama film directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler. The screenplay by Jane Murfin and Jules Furthman is based on the 1935 novel of the same title by Edna Ferber.
Two decades later, Barney and Emma Louises son Richard Joel McCrea strongly objects to his fathers practice of destroying forests without planting new trees. Barney visits his old friend Swan Bostrom Walter Brennan, who married Lotta when Barney rejected her. Swan is now a widower raising a daughter, also named Lotta also played by Frances Farmer, who bears a striking resemblance to her mother. Barney finds himself attracted to the girl and, foolishly hoping to recapture the love he abandoned as a young man, offers to finance her education. Complications arise when Richard meets Lotta and takes a strong interest in her, which is reciprocated, much to Barneys displeasure and jealousy.Samuel Goldwyn paid 150,000 for the screen rights to the Edna Ferber novel, who sold it to him confident he understood she had intended it to be primarily a story of the rape of America . . . by the wholesale robber barons of that day. Goldwyn was attracted to the melodramatic Barbary Coastlike aspects of the story, which prompted him to hire that films director, Howard Hawks, to bring Come and Get It to the screen. He also was intrigued by the fact Hawks grandfather had served as the basis for the character of Barney Glasgow. Ferber had approved Jane Murfins script, which Hawks found wanting, and he persuaded her and Goldwyn to allow him to bring in Jules Furthman to work on a rewrite. ........
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