| State Fair | |
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| Directed by | José Ferrer |
| Screenplay by | Richard L. Breen Oscar Hammerstein II Sonya Levien Paul Green |
| Based on | State Fair by Oscar Hammerstein II Sonya Levien Paul Green State Fair by Sonya Levien Paul Green State Fair by Phil Stong |
| Produced by | Charles Brackett |
| Starring | Pat Boone Bobby Darin Alice Faye Ann-Margret Tom Ewell Pamela Tiffin |
| Cinematography | William C. Mellor |
| Edited by | David Bretherton |
| Music by | Richard Rodgers |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date |
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Running time | 118 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4.5 million[1][2] |
| Box office | $3.5 million (US/Canada)[3][4] |
State Fair is a 1962 American musical film directed by José Ferrer and starring Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Ann-Margret, Tom Ewell, Pamela Tiffin and Alice Faye. A remake of the 1933 film State Fair and the 1945 film State Fair, it was considered to be a financially and critically unsuccessful film. Richard Rodgers, whose collaborator Oscar Hammerstein had died in 1960, wrote additional songs, both music and lyrics, for this film adaptation of the 1932 novel by Phil Stong.
While the 1933 and 1945 versions were set at the Iowa State Fair, the 1962 version was set in Texas (the family drives through Dallas[5] where the State Fair of Texas is held). It was filmed on sound stages at Twentieth Century Fox in California and on location at various places in Texas,[6] at Mooney's Grove park in Visalia, California and at the Oklahoma State Fair Raceway in Oklahoma City, home of the Oklahoma State Fair, where the climactic speedway sequence was shot.[7]
The novel State Fair would be dramatized twice more following the 1962 film. The first State Fair stage musical, which utilized a variety of Rodgers and Hammerstein songs (many originally written for projects not related to the State Fair film), was first produced in 1969. A revised version of this stage musical was produced in the 1990s and eventually played on Broadway.[8] A non-musical version of State Fair was also filmed for television in 1976.
- ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p253
- ^ Faye's Knees Shaky (at First) in Return: After 15 Years, Star Resumes Career in New 'State Fair' Scheuer, Philip K. Los Angeles Times September 29, 1961: A11.
- ^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1962". Variety. January 9, 1963. p. 13. Please note these are rentals and not gross figures
- ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p228
- ^ "State Fair – 1962 – Dallas Skyline". November 1, 2009 – via YouTube.
- ^ "State Fair (1962)". IMDb.
- ^ Wooley, John (October 9, 2012). Shot in Oklahoma: A Century of Sooner State Cinema. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806184074 – via Google Books.
- ^ "State Fair – Broadway Musical – Original". IBDB.