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State Fair

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State Fair
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1hr 40min
Genre:
Musical
Release:
1945
Directors:
José Ferrer, Walter Lang
Distributor:
20th Century Fox
Starring:
Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes  ...more
Synopsis: Twentieth Century-Fox couldn't make a film version of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Oklahoma in 1945--that particular Broadway musical would remain a "hot ticket" until the end of the decade--so the studio did the next best thing by hiring Rodgers & Hammerstein to pen the score for the Technicolorful State Fair. Fox had previously made a non-singing movie of Philip Stong's novel in 1933, with Janet Gaynor and Will Rogers in the leads. The musical remake downplayed the older characters in ... Full Synopsis
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Hans J. Wollstein, AMG Review
20th Century Fox knew how to use Technicolor better than anyone else, and the Iowa sky in State Fair is breathtakingly blue -- almost as breathtaking, in fact, as Vivian Blaine's crimson tresses. But the vibrant color scheme isn't the only ingredient that separates the Fox musical tradition from, say, MGM's. Could anyone imagine the overly exuberant Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney take the place of ... Full Review
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Jeanne Crain
Margy Frake
Dana Andrews
Pat Gilberg
Dick Haymes
Wayne Frake
Vivian Blaine
Emily Joyce
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