I watched this movie the other night. It was the one with Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes and Jeanne Craine. the question is: Was this the worst musical that Rodgers
and Hammerstein ever produced. Unlike other musicals of theirs, there seems to be no thread to the songs. When you watch their other musicals there is a
definite system to the way the songs go. They start with happy type songs then change to more serious songs and then you get the big song usually telling you
to keep up your spirits and then you may have a light relief song working up to the finale. State Fair has none of these. It just seems like a bunch of songs
thrown together and not all that good songs either.
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Posts: 2639 (Fri, 13-Jun-08 20:37:41) Super Turnip |
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Posts: 8851 (Sat, 14-Jun-08 18:09:41) Super Turnip |
I cant say I've seen this picture, Ray, but I liked Dick Haymes voice and always thought he was one of the nicest American crooners. You may be right about
a rag bag of songs but one of them is a perennial to this day and won an Oscar for best song of the year - "It Might As Well Be Spring".
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Posts: 738 (Sat, 14-Jun-08 19:57:47) Super Turnip |
Here is the trailer to State Fair, can't agree Ray I love this film. That's For Me is a standard, Grand Night for Singing a classic and It Might As
Well Be Spring, well how many recording's are their of this tune. Saw it as a boy and stilll enjoy. It was voted in the top ten of original screen musicals
in a recent poll.
State Fair trailer
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Posts: 18204 (Sat, 14-Jun-08 20:28:46) Moperator |
This was my 2nd DVD purchase - a lovely film. My first being Goodfella's - not much difference.
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Posts: 8860 (Sat, 14-Jun-08 21:43:50) Super Turnip |
Good grief, if that song - "A Grand Night For Singing" was in it, then I saw it in the cinema when I was three, four at most and I somehow recalled
that song for years afterwards. It was made in 1945 and I was very little and went with my mother and grandmother. One of my vaguest and earliest cinema
memories as are "Blue Skies" and "Meet Me In St Louis" and "Up In Arms" - I remember a horrendous long time queuing and mewking
for the last one. I may even have been two for a couple. They were all on first release. My mother was a cinema fanatic and as she had no baby sitter, she took
me to see just about every film she did. I can remember many in which I just went to sleep.
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Posts: 2648 (Sat, 14-Jun-08 23:11:18) Super Turnip |
I didn't say I didn't like it. I just meant that I thought that it didn't have the well defined structure that all other R&H musicals have. I
just think it's their worst musical. I, Like William, enjoy Dick Haymes singing. Jeanne Craine is dubbed though. Also it has a very thin plotline and seems
to me to have run out of steam when Dick Haymes doesn't get the girl in the end. But it was a pleasant enough way to idle away an hour and a half and it
definitely beats football!
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Posts: 739 (Sat, 14-Jun-08 23:43:04) Super Turnip |
Got me there Ray. I love the film but not as much as Fulham's last dramatic game of the season.
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Posts: 371 (Sun, 15-Jun-08 17:21:57) |
what was the remake like with Alice Faye?
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Posts: 8080 (Sun, 15-Jun-08 18:16:38) Super Turnip |
I really like it, Stephen but then it has got Bobby Darin in it and I could watch him creosote a fence and enjoy it.
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Posts: 541 (Sun, 29-Jun-08 23:42:34) |
Remake of State Fair is one of my all time favourites. Saw it as a youngster and loved it (even Pat Boone ). As the song goes "That's for Me".
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