The gifted but troubled Frances Farmer stars in this overlooked film, begun by Howard Hawks and completed by William Wyler. Based on the Edna Ferber novel of the same title, Come and Get It is a social melodrama that touches on issues of both class and generational conflict. Barney Glasgow abandons Lotta, the saloon singer he truly loves, to marry the boss’s daugther and become a forest-stripping timber baron in late nineteenth-century Wisconsin. Years later, he encounters Lotta’s daughter and battles his own son for her attentions. Farmer excels in the most challenging role of her career, giving a double performance as both mother and daughter.