Meet Me at the Fair
Meet Me at the Fair | |
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Directed by | Douglas Sirk |
Screenplay by | Irving Wallace Martin Berkeley |
Based on | The Great Companions by Gene Markey |
Produced by | Albert J. Cohen |
Starring | Dan Dailey Diana Lynn Hugh O'Brian |
Cinematography | Maury Gertsman |
Edited by | Russell F. Schoengarth |
Music by | Joseph Gershenson |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Universal-International Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.3 million (US rentals)[1] |
Meet Me at the Fair is a 1953 American musical film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Dan Dailey, Diana Lynn and Hugh O'Brian. Produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, it was shot in technicolor.
Plot
A boy named Tad flees from the orphanage and is given a ride by Doc Tilbee, a man with a traveling medicine show. Meanwhile, Zerelda King is assigned to look into possible illegal and unethical activity at an orphanage, which may or may not involve her fiancé.
Cast
- Dan Dailey as Doc
- Diana Lynn as Zerelda
- Hugh O'Brian as Chilton
- Carole Mathews as Clara Brink[2]
- Scatman Crothers as Enoch
- Chet Allen as Tad
- Rhys Williams as Pete McCoy
- Thomas E. Jackson as Billy Gray
- Russell Simpson as Sheriff Evans
- George Chandler as Deputy Leach
- Virginia Brissac as Mrs. Spooner
- John Maxwell as Mr. Spooner
- Doris Packer as Mrs. Swaile
- Edna Holland as Miss Burghey
- George Spaulding as Governor
- Franklyn Farnum as Wall Street Tycoon
- Roger Moore as Wall Street Tycoon
- Max Wagner as Iceman
Reviews
Movie critic Leonard Maltin considers this to be a "pleasant musical".[3]
References
- ^ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1953', Variety, January 13, 1954
- ^ Fitzgerald, Michael E. (1977). Universal Pictures: A Panoramic History in Words, Pictures, and Filmographies (Sixth Printing, December 1981 ed.). Westport, Connecticut: Arlington House Publishers. p. 599. ISBN 0-87000-366-6.
- ^ Maltin, Leonard. Classic Movie Guide: From the Silent Era Through 1965, p. 442 (Penguin, 2015).
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