B.F.'s Daughter

Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.

Cast

Barbara Stanwyck

as Pauline 'Polly' Fulton Brett

Van Heflin

as Thomas W. 'Tom' Brett

Charles Coburn

as Burton F. 'B.F.' Fulton

Richard Hart

as Robert S. 'Bob' Tasmin III

Keenan Wynn

as Martin Delwyn 'Marty' Ainsley

Margaret Lindsay

as 'Apples' Sandler

Spring Byington

as Gladys Fulton

Marshall Thompson

as The Sailor

Barbara Laage

as Eugenia Taris, Tom's dutch Girl

Thomas E. Breen

as Maj. Isaac Riley, Pilot

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