State Fair (1962)
- Starring:
- Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, (more)
- Director(s):
- José Ferrer
Synopsis of State Fair
This is the third time around for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The action takes place in urban Texas instead of the traditional setting in rural Iowa. This film version contains five extra songs written exclusively by Richard Rodgers. Box office results were adequate at best, and movie going public deemed this version the least interesting of the three. The youth audience was lured by the casting of Ann-Margaret, Pat Boone and Bobby Darin. Alice Faye returned to the big screen after a sixteen year absence as Melissa Frake. Tom Ewell plays her husband, Abel. The plot finds a family traveling to Dallas for the Texas State Fair. Singing commences on the ferris wheel, the merry-go-round and in other locales. The only real action is the anticipation of a drag race between Wayne (Pat Boone) and the carrot topped, malevolent motorhead Red (Edward "Tap" Canutt). ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
Complete Cast of State Fair
- Pat Boone - Wayne Frake
- Pamela Tiffin - Margie Frake
- Tom Ewell - Abel Frake
- Wally Cox - Hipplewaite
- Clem Harvey - Doc Cramer
- Edward "Tap" Canutt - Red Hoerier
- Bebe Allan - Usherette
- Anton Arnold - Lackey
- Kay Sutton
- Tom Allen
- Carl Princi
- Linda Heinrich - Betty Jean
- Claude Hall - Sime
- Bobby Darin - Jerry Dundee
- Ann-Margret - Emily Porter
- Alice Faye - Melissa Frake
- David Brandon - Harry
- Robert Foulk - SquatJudge
- Margaret Deramee - Lilya
- George Russell - George Hoffer
- Sheila Mathews - Hipplewaite's Girl
- Freeman Morse
- Bob Larkin
- Meat Loaf - Boy In Stands
- Jack Carr
- Albert Harris - Jim
- Director(s):
- José Ferrer
- Writer(s):
- Sonya Levien, Richard L. Breen, Paul Green
- Producer(s):
- Charles Brackett
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