Maybe I'm an exception to the rule, but with all due respects to Dana Andrews, Vivian Blaine, and all the other stars of the 1937 version of State Fair, to me this is a little more superior, and I've seen both.
Unlike the 1937 version, whose setting is Iowa, the setting of this State Fair is Texas.
Tom Ewell and Alice Faye make for a fine couple/set of parents. Pat Boone and the wild but very pretty Ann-Margaret make a wonderful pair, and Bobby Darin and Pamela Tiffin blend well together. Wally Cox, who becomes drunk in this movie, is his side-splitting, comical self.
The story centers around the romances of Darin and Tiffin, as well as Boone and Ann-Margaret. Pat Boone becomes so taken with his new lover that he sings "That's for Me." Tiffin becomes so taken with Darin that she thinks he can be nothing except the wonderful lover she believes him to be, but she's wrong; thus, there is a bit of character study in this movie.
There are other endearing songs in the movie such as "It Might as Well be Spring", and who can forget the classic "It's a Grand Night for Singing."
The romances are enjoyable, but fairly serious in places. All things considered it is quite wonderful and entertaining.
Unlike the 1937 version, whose setting is Iowa, the setting of this State Fair is Texas.
Tom Ewell and Alice Faye make for a fine couple/set of parents. Pat Boone and the wild but very pretty Ann-Margaret make a wonderful pair, and Bobby Darin and Pamela Tiffin blend well together. Wally Cox, who becomes drunk in this movie, is his side-splitting, comical self.
The story centers around the romances of Darin and Tiffin, as well as Boone and Ann-Margaret. Pat Boone becomes so taken with his new lover that he sings "That's for Me." Tiffin becomes so taken with Darin that she thinks he can be nothing except the wonderful lover she believes him to be, but she's wrong; thus, there is a bit of character study in this movie.
There are other endearing songs in the movie such as "It Might as Well be Spring", and who can forget the classic "It's a Grand Night for Singing."
The romances are enjoyable, but fairly serious in places. All things considered it is quite wonderful and entertaining.