| State Fair (1945)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Dana Andrews |
Pat Gilberg
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| Julie Andrews |
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| Rossano Brazzi |
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| Yul Brynner |
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| Jeanne Crain |
Margy Frake
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| Mitzi Gaynor |
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| Shirley Jones |
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| Deborah Kerr |
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| Gordon MacRae |
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| Charles Winninger |
Abel Frake
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| Fay Bainter |
Meilissa Frake
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| Vivian Blaine |
Emily Joyce
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| Frank McHugh |
McGee
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| Plot |
| "I've got that nice, tired old feeling," says Pa Frake near the end of the gentle, sunny 1945 film, State Fair. The Rodgers and Hammerstein music, commissioned while Oklahoma was still making musical-theater history, feels tired too, like the result of a hastily written score. The state of Iowa just can't seem to inspire the same quality music as its more memorable, southern cousin. Remember that State Fair gem "All I Owe Iowa"? Still, it is R and H, and "It Might as Well Be Spring" is here as well as some other decent ditties. There's a country-mouse feeling as the Frake family journeys to the big city for the annual harvest celebration. Young daughter Margy (Jeanne Crain) has her eye on something more exciting than her bore of a fiancé, while her brother meets a lovely big-band singer with a secret. But the bucolic, Old Farmer's Almanac feel is genuine, and it's most obviously a picture of a bygone era when someone expostulates gleefully, "You're gonna be the wife of a journalist!" Not a "don't miss" but not a dismiss either. --Keith Simanton |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Musical |
| Director |
Walter Lang |
| Producer |
William Perlberg |
| Writer |
Oscar Hammerstein II; Paul Green |
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| Studio |
20th Century Fox |
| Country |
USA
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
NR (Not Rated) |
| Running Time |
118 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
1945 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
838 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
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| Edition Details |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Single Layer |
| Barcode |
086162108679 |
| Chapters |
28 |
| Release Date |
4/27/1999 |
| Subtitles |
English; Spanish |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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Scene Selection
Original Theatrical Trailer
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