Meet Me at the Fair
1953 film by Douglas Sirk
- January 1953 (1953-01)
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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).
External links
- Meet Me at the Fair at IMDb
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Films directed by Douglas Sirk
- April, April! (1935)
- The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935)
- Pillars of Society (1935)
- 't Was één April (1936)
- Schlußakkord (1936)
- The Court Concert (1936)
- To New Shores (1937)
- La Habanera (1937)
- Final Accord (1938)
- Boefje (1939)
- Hitler's Madman (1943)
- Summer Storm (1944)
- A Scandal in Paris (1946)
- Lured (1947)
- Sleep, My Love (1948)
- Shockproof (1949)
- Slightly French (1949)
- Mystery Submarine (1950)
- The First Legion (1951)
- Thunder on the Hill (1951)
- The Lady Pays Off (1951)
- Week-End with Father (1951)
- No Room for the Groom (1952)
- Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
- Meet Me at the Fair (1953)
- Take Me to Town (1953)
- All I Desire (1953)
- Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
- Magnificent Obsession (1954)
- Sign of the Pagan (1954)
- Captain Lightfoot (1955)
- All That Heaven Allows (1955)
- There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
- Written on the Wind (1956)
- Battle Hymn (1957)
- Interlude (1957)
- The Tarnished Angels (1958)
- A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
- Imitation of Life (1959)