State Fair (1962)

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State Fair is a 1962 American musical film directed by José Ferrer, with music by Rodgers and Hammerstein, and starring Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Pamela Tiffin, Ann-Margret, Tom Ewell and Alice Faye. It is a remake of the 1945 film of the same name, in turn based on the novel by Phil Stong.

Production

20th Century-Fox production head Buddy Adler announced the film in January 1960, with Rodgers and Hammerstein slated to write new songs for it. Charles Brackett was named producer and Walter Lang was named director. It would be the third version of the film produced by Fox. Adler said that he hoped that the film would be ready by Christmas and that it would not be a musical, but "it will have plenty of songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein."

Brackett called the story "... a beautiful property. It's a story about people with simple projects with which the audience can get really involved – the man who wants his boy to get a prize, the woman interested in her mincemeat, the girl who wants adventure and finds a fast young man at the fair."

Production was delayed when Adler died in July 1960. Hammerstein died the following month, at which point Rodgers decided to write the lyrics himself.

José Ferrer had just made Return to Peyton Place for Fox and was eventually signed to direct. He described the project as "entirely a new treatment of a classic" with no "chance of a comparison with a memory or nostalgia."

The female lead was given to Ann-Margret, who was under contract to 20th Century-Fox. They had loaned her to United Artists to make her first film, Pocketful of Miracles, and this would be her second. Bound by the terms of an old commitment to Fox, she was paid only $500 a week during her three months of work on the production.

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