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State Fair is a 1945 American Technicolor musical film directed by Walter Lang, with original music by Rodgers and Hammerstein. It is a musical adaptation of the 1933 film of the same name starring Janet Gaynor and Will Rogers. The 1933 film is an adaptation of the 1932 novel by Phil Stong. This 1945 musical film stars Jeanne Crain, Dana ...
State Fair is a musical with a book by Tom Briggs and Louis Mattioli, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and music by Richard Rodgers. Phil Stong 's original 1932 novel, State Fair, was first adapted for film in 1933 in a production starring Will Rogers. In 1945, the film was remade as a musical with original songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Published. 1945 by Williamson Music. Songwriter (s) Oscar Hammerstein II. Composer (s) Richard Rodgers. "It Might as Well Be Spring" is a song from the 1945 film State Fair. [1] which features the only original film score by the songwriting team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. "It Might as Well Be Spring" won the Academy Award for ...
July 27 – Benjamin Britten and Yehudi Menuhin perform concerts at Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. August 19 – Dick Powell marries June Allyson. September 1 – Trio Lescano 's last concert on Italian radio. September 4 – Beethoven 's Fidelio becomes the first opera to be performed in Berlin following World War II.
1945. Composer (s) Richard Rodgers. Lyricist (s) Oscar Hammerstein II. " That's For Me " is a popular song, written by Richard Rodgers, with the lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The song was published in 1945 and included in the 1945 version of the musical film State Fair. Popular recordings in 1945 were made by Jo Stafford and Dick Haymes.
Phil Stong. Philip Duffield Stong (January 27, 1899 – April 26, 1957) [1][2] was an American author, journalist and Hollywood scenarist. [3] He is best known for the 1932 novel State Fair, which was adapted as a film in 1933, 1945, 1962 and 1976, and as a Broadway musical in 1996.
In 1945, the second version of State Fair was released: a Technicolor musical starring Jeanne Crain as Margy and Dana Andrews as Pat, and featuring Rodgers and Hammerstein songs written originally for the film, rather than for a stage musical.
State Fair is a 1962 American musical film directed by José Ferrer and starring Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Ann-Margret, Tom Ewell, Pamela Tiffin and Alice Faye. A remake of the 1933 film State Fair and the 1945 film State Fair, it was considered to be a financially and critically unsuccessful film. Richard Rodgers, whose collaborator Oscar ...