Meet Me at the Fair

1953 film by Douglas Sirk
  • January 1953 (1953-01)
Running time
87 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBox 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

  1. ^ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1953', Variety, January 13, 1954
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Maltin, Leonard. Classic Movie Guide: From the Silent Era Through 1965, p. 442 (Penguin, 2015).

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Films directed by Douglas Sirk