A family from a small town attends the Iowa state fair with the father entering his boar in competition and his son and daughter getting involved in various activities, including romance, in the musical comedy “State Fair.” Director Walter Lang (“Greenwich Village” 1944) put together the definitive version of the famous musical with outstanding production values, high-quality musical numbers, good performances, and a well written screenplay by Sonya Levien and Paul Green.
The cast includes Jeanne Crain and Dick Haymes as the Frake family siblings, Dana Andrews and Vivian Blaine as their friends, Charles Winninger and Fay Bainter as Mom and Dad Frake, as well as Donald Meek, Frank McHugh, Percy Kilbride, Harry Morgan, John Dehner, William Marshall, Janet Nigh, Phil Brown, and Blue Boy the Hog as Blue Boy the Boar.
The watchable “State Fair” was popular in theatrical release for 20th Century Fox. It won a single Academy Award for Best Song: “It Might As Well Be Spring,” music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It also received an Oscar nod for Best Musical Score by Alfred Newman and Charles E. Henderson. “State Fair” was filmed in beautiful Technicolor. Other versions of the film were released in 1933, 1962, and 1976.
State Fair (1945)
cinema
My Review
A family from a small town attends the Iowa state fair with the father entering his boar in competition and his son and daughter getting involved in various activities, including romance, in the musical comedy “State Fair.” Director Walter Lang (“Greenwich Village” 1944) put together the definitive version of the famous musical with outstanding production values, high-quality musical numbers, good performances, and a well written screenplay by Sonya Levien and Paul Green.
The cast includes Jeanne Crain and Dick Haymes as the Frake family siblings, Dana Andrews and Vivian Blaine as their friends, Charles Winninger and Fay Bainter as Mom and Dad Frake, as well as Donald Meek, Frank McHugh, Percy Kilbride, Harry Morgan, John Dehner, William Marshall, Janet Nigh, Phil Brown, and Blue Boy the Hog as Blue Boy the Boar.
The watchable “State Fair” was popular in theatrical release for 20th Century Fox. It won a single Academy Award for Best Song: “It Might As Well Be Spring,” music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It also received an Oscar nod for Best Musical Score by Alfred Newman and Charles E. Henderson. “State Fair” was filmed in beautiful Technicolor. Other versions of the film were released in 1933, 1962, and 1976.