Word: margret
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...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...
...road to teen idolatry, Margret took dancing lessons in a Chicago suburb, where the family moved from Sweden when she was six. Her debut as a radio singer was not auspicious: she lost out on an amateur hour when she was 16 to a Mexican leaf player. Leaving Northwestern University at the end of her freshman year, she got a job singing in a restaurant lounge, was heard and hired by George Burns for his Las Vegas show. Burns gave her some professional advice: get out of her new red velvet slacks and into black Lastex and cashmere...