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State Fair. Hollywood's third cinemadaptation of the 1932 novel by Phil Stong just about corners the market in spring corn. Credits: Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Tom Ewell, Alice Faye, Pamela Tiffin, Ann-Margret, Wally Cox and an 800-lb. Hampshire hog named George...
Director Michael Murray did better with his women. Kathleen Sullivan was a fine Sophie despite an unidentifiable accent; Ann Shropshire and Esther Benson made the fears of Rose Griggs and Constance Tuckerman convincing and sad. Dorothy Sands, playing a wealthy old woman who is aware of how wrong interfering in other people's lives can be, is sprightly without belying her age. It's unfortunate that she wins some laughs just because old people aren't credited with any acumen. (It's cute when that little old lady says something perceptive by accident...
...Gaynor, in 1945 a second hit movie with Dana Andrews, Jeanne Grain and Dick Haymes. And now State Fair has been turned into a (side bets accepted by Producer Charles Brackett and Director Jose Ferrer) third hit movie-with Pat Boone, Bobby Darin. Tom Ewell, Alice Faye, Pamela Tiffin, Ann-Margret, Wally Cox and an 800-lb. Hampshire hog named George. It may not win any Oscars, but durn if it don't take the blue ribbon for country corn...
...Texas State Fair, "the biggest state fair in the hull U.S.A." Mom Frake (Faye) wins the plaque for mincemeat. Pop Frake (Ewell) wins the grand prize for swine. Marge Frake (Tiffin) wins one of those TV fellers (Darin), and Wayne Frake (Boone) wins one of those fast girls (Ann-Margret) from back East, but she's too fast for Wayne and the tomfool lets her get away...
Alice Faye, in the first film role she has played since 1946, looks refreshingly real - she is middle-aged now and she doesn't try to hide it. Boone looks healthy. Darin looks unhealthy. And there is too much sugar in his Tiffin. As for Ann-Margret, she has the energy of a Texas twister. But Comedian Wally Cox, who plays a judge in the preserves division, brings off the best scene in the picture, a side-busting sequence in which the meek little fellow gets roaring drunk on mincemeat...