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Title Rodgers & Hammerstein's State fair.

Publication Info. Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [1945]
©2006

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD STATE DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  DVD STAT DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
Edition 60th anniversary edition, 1945: full frame ; 1962: widescreen.
Description 2 videodiscs (218 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD (dual layer); 1945: full frame aspect ratio 1.33:1; 1962: anamorphic widescreen aspect ratio 2.35:1.
Note Title from container.
From a novel by Philip Stong; adapted by Sonya Levien and Paul Green.
Performer 1945: Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine, Charles Winninger, Fay Bainter, Donald Meek, Frank McHugh.
1962: Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Pamela Tiffin, Ann-Margret, Tom Ewell, Alice Faye, Wally Cox, David Brandon, Clem Harvey, Rovert Foulk, Linda Henrich, Edward "Tap" Canutt.
Credits Music, Richard Rodgers ; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein.
Note Originally released as motion pictures in the U.S. in 1945 and 1962.
Summary A small-town family travels to the Iowa State Fair. The father is looking for a blue ribbon for his prize hog, Blue Boy, mom is looking for glory in her cooking, and the kids are looking for love.
Note Special features: 1945. audio commentary by film historian Richard Barrios and Tom Briggs; "From page to screen to stage" (featurette); singalong karaoke; still galleries; theatrical trailer.
Special features: 1962. audio commentary by Pat Boone; vintage stage excerpt from a 1954 television tribute to Rodgers and Hammerstein; rare "State fair" television pilot; theatrical trailer.
Contents Disc 1. 1945 / screenplay by Oscar Hammerstein II ; produced by William Perlberg; directed by Walter Lang -- Disc 2. 1962 / screenplay by Richard Breen; produced by Charles Brackett; directed by José Ferrer.
Language In English ; with English and Spanish subtitles (1945 and 1962).
Closed-captioned.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Musicals.
Agricultural exhibitions -- Iowa -- Drama.
Country life -- Drama.
Families -- Drama.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Breen, Richard L.
Stong, Phil, 1899-1957.
Lang, Walter, 1898-1972.
Ferrer, José, 1912-1992.
Crain, Jeanne.
Andrews, Dana, 1909-1992.
Haymes, Dick.
Blaine, Vivian, 1921-1995.
Winninger, Charles, 1884-1969.
Bainter, Fay, 1892-1968.
Meek, Donald, 1878-1946.
McHugh, Frank, 1899-1981.
Boone, Pat.
Darin, Bobby.
Tiffin, Pamela.
Ann-Margret, 1941-
Ewell, Tom, 1909-1994.
Faye, Alice, 1915-1998.
Cox, Wally, 1924-1973.
Brandon, David, 1960-
Harvey, Clem.
Foulk, Robert.
Henrich, Linda.
Canutt, Edward.
Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979.
Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960.
Stong, Phil, 1899-1957. State fair.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.
Added Title State fair
Rodgers and Hammerstein's State fair
State fair (Motion picture : 1945)
State fair (Motion picture : 1962)
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