http://www.tvguide.com/movies/state-fair/109989 The latest on State Fair TV Guide RSS Publishing Engine V 1.0 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 1440 http://www.tvguide.com/images/tvg_rss_logo.gif http://www.tvguide.com/movies/state-fair/109989 http://video.tvguide.com/ID/817754?rss=object <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/817754?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/123/005176_14.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="State Fair" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>Twentieth Century-Fox couldn't make a film version of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Oklahoma in 1945--that particular Broadway musical would remain a hot ticket until the end of the decade--so the studio did the next best thing by hiring Rodgers & Hammerstein to pen the score for the Technicolorful State Fair. Fox had previously made a non-singing movie of Philip Stong's novel in 1933, with Janet Gaynor and Will Rogers in the leads. The musical remake downplayed the older characters in favor of the younger members of the cast. Set during the annual Iowa State Fair, the story concentrates on the Frakes family: father Charles Winninger, mother Fay Bainter, and grown-up children Jeanne Crain and Dick Haymes. Each has his or her own reason for attending the fair: Winninger intends to win the prize hog ribbon, Bainter hopes to defeat her longtime snooty rival in the best pickle contest (she wins when the judges get schnockered on the alcoholic special ingredient in her pickles), Crain falls in love with</p> Video Detective http://video.tvguide.com/ID/817754?rss=object Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:21:24 +0000 <p><a href="http://video.tvguide.com/ID/817754?rss=object"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://videodetective.com/photos/123/005176_14.jpg" width="60" height="45" alt="State Fair" style="margin:0 5px 5px" /></a>Twentieth Century-Fox couldn't make a film version of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Oklahoma in 1945--that particular Broadway musical would remain a hot ticket until the end of the decade--so the studio did the next best thing by hiring Rodgers & Hammerstein to pen the score for the Technicolorful State Fair. Fox had previously made a non-singing movie of Philip Stong's novel in 1933, with Janet Gaynor and Will Rogers in the leads. The musical remake downplayed the older characters in favor of the younger members of the cast. Set during the annual Iowa State Fair, the story concentrates on the Frakes family: father Charles Winninger, mother Fay Bainter, and grown-up children Jeanne Crain and Dick Haymes. Each has his or her own reason for attending the fair: Winninger intends to win the prize hog ribbon, Bainter hopes to defeat her longtime snooty rival in the best pickle contest (she wins when the judges get schnockered on the alcoholic special ingredient in her pickles), Crain falls in love with</p> State Fair http://www.tvguide.com/listings Get your local listings TV Guide Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:42:05 +0000