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.
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 |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.3 million (US rentals)[1] |
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 asMr. 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]
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