"I've got that nice, tired old feeling," says Pa Frake near the end of the gentle, sunny 1945 film,
State Fair. The Rodgers and Hammerstein music, commissioned while
Oklahoma was still making musical-theater history, feels tired too, like the result of a hastily written score. The state of Iowa just can't seem to inspire the same quality music as its more memorable, southern cousin. Remember that
State Fair gem "All I Owe Iowa"? Still, it
is R and H, and "It Might as Well Be Spring" is here as well as some other decent ditties. There's a country-mouse feeling as the Frake family journeys to the big city for the annual harvest celebration. Young daughter Margy (Jeanne Crain) has her eye on something more exciting than her bore of a fiancé, while...
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