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State Fair is a 1945 American Technicolor musical film directed by Walter Lang, with original music by Rodgers and Hammerstein. It is a musical adaptation of the 1933 film of the same name starring Janet Gaynor and Will Rogers. The 1933 film is an adaptation of the 1932 novel by Phil Stong.
State Fair: Directed by Walter Lang. With Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine. Each member of the Frake clan has his/her own reason for attending the annual Iowa State Fair.
The slice of homespun Americana shows how an Iowa farm family's lives are changed when they attend the state fair. Father Abel enters his prized hog, Blue Boy, in competition; mother Melissa enters her prized preserves. And daughter Margy and son Wayne find romance.
Son Wayne (Dick Haymes) plots revenge on a midway barker (Henry Morgan) who had embarrassed him the summer before and falls for the beautiful singer Emily (Vivian Blaine), while his melancholy...
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During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat and pickles contest...with hilarious results.
