Word: frakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Iowa Farmer Frake (Charles Winninger), his wife (Fay Bainter), their son Wayne (Dick Haymes) and their daughter Margy (Jeanne Grain) go to the big State Fair. Farmer Frake's heart is set on winning the Grand Award with his titanic boar. Blue Boy. Mrs. Frake's hopes reside in her crock of heavily spiked mincemeat. Wayne meets and falls for a redhead (Vivian Blaine) who sings with Tommy Thomas' band, and Margy picks up with a Des Moines reporter (Dana Andrews...
Blue Boy, melancholic with love for a redheaded sow, acts his age in time to triumph. One of the judges yields to the beast in him when he tastes Mrs. Frake's brandied mincemeat, so she too triumphs. The son and daughter also finally win their hearts' desires. (Good bit: Margy's and the reporter's innocent embrace when "their" horse wins a harness race, their embarrassed withdrawal, their sudden, serious kiss...