State Fair Walter Lang Digital Life DVD

State Fair
starring: Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine, Charles Winninger
directed by: Walter Lang

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305320845
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305320845
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 27, 1999
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 32882
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: August 30, 1945

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'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

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- State Fair with Pat Boon
This a classic family movie. It was produced when wholsom entertainment was the norm.

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- State Fair-- They don't make movies like this anymore !
What a great musical movie "State Fair" is ! The 60th Anniversary Edition is the one you will want to add to your collection. This is full of fun,laughter and romance as well as having some great songs.A story that takes place at the great Iowa State Fair. Having been a former Iowan and have attended the Iowa State Fair in past years, I have noticed that there are a number of scenes that were filmed on location at the fair. If you have never been to the one in Iowa ,you might have the memories of another fair you have been to. Relive the past as you watch this movie. It is one you will remember and cherish for many years to come.

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- "Our State Fair Is A Great State Fair" ~ A Nostalgic Trip To Rural America
Until yesterday I hadn't viewed the '45 musical `State Fair' in at least thirty years if not more. While watching the madcap and romantic rural adventures of this good hearted, middle American family a couldn't help feeling as though I had been sucked through some sort of time warp to a time and place far more distant than a state fair in Iowa circa 1945. Was the world ever as simple, honest and wonderful as depicted here?

Whether pure fantasy or real this film is definitely a nostalgic and wholesome viewing experience displaying the best of what "Old Hollywood" had to offer. The story line is a bit naïve (or maybe we're just too jaded today) but enjoyable, the music fun and beautifully performed and the color exquisite. It also contains one of the amazing assemble casts filled with talented actors and actresses who's names you don't remember but you known you've seen and loved many times before.
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- State Fair
This is one of my faves. Much superior to the re-make with Pat Boone and Ann-Margaret. This is sweet and the stars are just right. Dana Andrews, of "The Best Years of Our Lives" and "Laura" is a jaded reporter covering the Iowa State Fair and is smitten with this young, sweet farmer's daughter and it changes his life. There IS reason for hope. Jeanne Craine plays the young girl and is engaging. She was also in "Leave Her To Heaven" and "Laura" I believe. Good music with fine vocalists.

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