B.F.'s Daughter is a 1948 drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Van Heflin. It is adapted from John P. Marquand's controversial 1946 novel of the same name, but the movie script soft-pedals the controversial elements and is a fairly conventional love story. Polly Fulton is the only daughter of rich industrialist B.F. Fulton . She is involved in a long engagement to lawyer Bob Tasmin , a pleasant, dependable gentleman who has the full approval of her family. Then she meets brash intellectual Tom Brett , who blames many of the world's problems on the rich.... Tom and Polly heartily dislike each other at first, but she finds him exciting compared to the likable "stuffed shirt" Tasmin. Soon Tom and Polly fall passionately in love and get married. Tom has a tense relationship with Polly's family from the start. And when he gradually realizes that his in-laws are using their connections to advance his career, he is not grateful but bitter. Polly is painfully torn between her strong-willed husband and her devoted father, whom everyone calls "B.F.
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| Release date: | April 2, 1948 |
| Directed by: | Robert Z. Leonard |
| Runtime: | 108 Minutes |
| Producer: | Edwin H. Knopf |
| Editor: | George White |
| Cinematography: | Joseph Ruttenberg |