State Fair

AKA:

It Happened One Summer

Release Date:

Aug 30, 1945

Running Time:

1:40

Genre:

Musical

Director:

Walter Lang

Cast:

Jeanne Crain	Margy Frake
Dana Andrews	Pat Gilbert
Dick Haymes	Wayne Frake
Vivian Blaine	Emily Edwards
Charles Winninger	Abel Frake
Fay Bainter	Melissa Frake
Donald Meek	Hippenstahl
Frank McHugh	McGee
Percy Kilbride	Dave Miller
Henry Morgan	Barker
Jane Nigh	Eleanor
William Marshall	Tommy Thomas
Phil Brown	Harry Ware
Paul E. Burns	Hank (uncredited)
Tom Fadden	Eph (uncredited)
William Frambes	Pappy (uncredited)
Josephine Whittell	Mrs. Metcalf (uncredited)
Paul Harvey	Simpson
John Dehner	Hog Contest Announcer (uncredited)

Producers:

William Perlberg

Language:

English

Related Programs:

Oklahoma!

The Music Man

Meet Me in St. Louis

Carousel

Summer Stock

Mardi Gras

Louisiana Purchase

The small-town Frake family attend the Iowa State Fair, the annual highlight of their summer. Son Wayne plots revenge on a midway barker who had embarrassed him the summer before and falls for the beautiful singer Emily, while his melancholy sister Margie becomes smitten with slick city-boy reporter Pat . Meanwhile, mother Melissa and father Abel plot to win their respective competitions.

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