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A state fair is a competitive and recreational gathering in the United States. It may also refer to: * ''State Fair'' (novel), a 1932 novel by Phil Stong ** ''State Fair'' (1933 film), based on the novel ** ''State Fair'' (1945 film), a musical remake ** ''State Fair'' (1962 film), a remake of the musical version ** ''State Fair'' (1976 film), a television pilot loosely based upon the novel ** ''State Fair'' (musical), a 1996 musical play based upon the Stong novel * State Fair, a neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan * State Fair (song), a single by country music singer Doug Supernaw on his 1994 album ''Deep Thoughts from a Shallow Mind '' Deep Thoughts from a Shallow Mind'' is the second studio album by American country music artist Doug Supernaw. It was released on September 13, 1994 and it produced the singles "What'll You Do About Me", "You Never Even Called Me by My Name" (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Fair
A state fair is an annual competitive and recreational gathering of a U.S. state's population, usually held in late summer or early fall. It is a larger version of a county fair, often including only exhibits or competitors that have won in their categories at the more-local county fairs. State fairs began in the nineteenth century for the purpose of promoting state agriculture, through competitive exhibitions of livestock and display of farm products. As the U.S. evolved from a predominantly agrarian society, agrarian to an industrial society in the twentieth century, and the more service economy of the 21st century, modern state fairs have expanded to include carnival amusement rides and games, display of industrial products, automobile racing, and entertainment such as musical concerts. Large fairs can admit more than a million visitors over the course of a week or two. The first U.S. state fair was that of Great New York State Fair, New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Fair (novel)
''State Fair'' is a 1932 novel by Phil Stong about an Iowa farm family's visit to the Iowa State Fair, where the family's two teenage children each fall in love, but ultimately break up with their respective new loves and return to their familiar life back on the farm. Thomas Leslie, the author of ''Iowa State Fair: Country Comes to Town'', wrote that the novel ''State Fair'' is "a surprisingly dark coming-of-age story that took as its major plot device the effects of the 'worldly temptations' of the Iowa State Fair on a local farming family", capturing tensions between urban Des Moines and rural Iowa. The novel became a bestseller and established Stong as a popular author. Shortly after its publication, the novel was made into a Hollywood film starring Will RogersRasmussenp.142./ref> (albeit with the addition of a happy "Hollywood ending" not in the bookRasmussenp.144./ref>), and was subsequently adapted for the stage and screen several more times, including as a Rodgers and H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Fair (1933 Film)
''State Fair'' (1933) is an American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Henry King and starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, and Lew Ayres. The picture tells the story of a farm family's multi-day visit to the Iowa State Fair, where the parents seek to win prizes in agricultural and cooking competitions, and their teenage daughter and son each find unexpected romance. Based on the bestselling 1932 novel by Phil Stong, this was the first of three film versions of the novel released to theaters, the others being the movie musicals ''State Fair'' (1945) starring Jeanne Crain and Dana Andrews, and ''State Fair'' (1962) starring Ann-Margret and Pat Boone. The 1933 version was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. The film, made pre-Code and despite its seemingly tame plot, has some scenes that were censored a few years later, when it was re-released due to the Breen Office's Production Code that took effect in 1934. One scene that was cut showed a disheveled bed and a ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Fair (1945 Film)
''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, itself an adaptation of the 1932 novel by Phil Stong. The 1945 film stars Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine, Fay Bainter, and Charles Winninger. ''State Fair'' was remade in 1962, that time starring Pat Boone and Ann-Margret. ''State Fair'' was the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical written directly for film. The movie introduced such popular songs as "It's A Grand Night For Singing" and "It Might as Well Be Spring", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Joint musical direction was by Alfred Newman and Charles E. Henderson of orchestral arrangements principally by Edward B. Powell. This Rodgers and Hammerstein's original musical film was first adapted for the stage in 1969, for a production at The Muny in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Fair (1962 Film)
''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 Hammerstein had died in 1960, wrote additional songs, both music and lyrics, for this film adaptation of the 1932 novel by Phil Stong. While the 1933 and 1945 versions were set at the Iowa State Fair, the 1962 version was set in Texas (the family drives through Dallas where the State Fair of Texas is held). It was filmed on sound stages at Twentieth Century Fox in California and on location at various places in Texas, at Mooney's Grove park in Visalia, California and at the Oklahoma State Fair Raceway in Oklahoma City, home of the Oklahoma State Fair, where the climactic speedway sequence was shot. The novel "State Fair" would be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Fair (1976 Film)
''State Fair'' is a 1976 American made-for-television drama film loosely based on the 1932 novel of the same title by Phil Stong. It was broadcast on CBS on May 14, 1976, and starred Vera Miles as Melissa Bryant, the matriarch of the family. It is the fourth film adaptation of the novel, the previous three having been released to theaters in 1933, 1945, and 1962. As in Stong's novel and previous film adaptations, the story involves an Iowa farm family who travel to the Iowa State Fair, where the son and daughter of the family each find romance. However, in the 1976 film, most of the character names were changed (the "Frakes" of the original novel became the "Bryants"), new son and grandson characters were added, and other aspects of the story were changed and updated to reflect the 1970s. The 1976 version was made as a pilot episode for a television series, but the series was never produced. It has been included as a special feature on the DVD release of the 1945 film. Plot Mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Fair (musical)
''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. This was subsequently remade in 1962 as well as adapted into a made-for-television movie in 1976. The stage production closely follows the plot of its predecessors, providing a glimpse into the life of a farming family, the Frakes, and their three-day adventure at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines in 1946. While parents Abel and Melissa are hoping to win a few blue ribbons, siblings Margy and Wayne are more interested in finding romance on the midway. Production history In 1969, The Muny in St. Louis presented the world stage premiere of ''State Fair'' starring Ozzie and Harriet Nelson with Ron Husmann, Jerry Lanning, Bonnie Schon, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detroit
Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 census, making it the 27th-most populous city in the United States. The metropolitan area, known as Metro Detroit, is home to 4.3 million people, making it the second-largest in the Midwest after the Chicago metropolitan area, and the 14th-largest in the United States. Regarded as a major cultural center, Detroit is known for its contributions to music, art, architecture and design, in addition to its historical automotive background. ''Time'' named Detroit as one of the fifty World's Greatest Places of 2022 to explore. Detroit is a major port on the Detroit River, one of the four major straits that connect the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The City of Detroit anchors the second-largest regional economy in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the largest by area east of the Mississippi River.''i.e.'', including water that is part of state territory. Georgia is the largest state by land area alone east of the Mississippi and Michigan the second-largest. Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies. Its name derives from a gallicized variant of the original Ojibwe word (), meaning "large water" or "large lake". Michigan consists of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula resembles the shape of a mitten, and comprises a majority of the state's land area. The Upper Peninsula (often called "the U.P.") is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, a channel that joins Lak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Fair (song)
"State Fair" is a song recorded by American country music artist Doug Supernaw. It was released in August 1994 as the first single from his album ''Deep Thoughts from a Shallow Mind''. It peaked at number 55 in the United States. Content "State Fair" is a mid-tempo ballad. The narrator reminisces about an event in 1973, where him and his second cousin Calvin are heading to the state fair. On the way, they get involved in a head-on drunk-driving collision that claimed Calvin's life. The narrator survives and explains his guilt over the crash years later and talks about how he remembers his final moments with Calvin on the road trip, reaching underneath the dash and pulling out a pack of cigarettes he kept stashed. Controversy The song caused controversy by MADD advocates due to its portrayal of underage drinking, after a couple scenes in the video show two teenagers standing outside a convenience store getting an adult to purchase alcohol for them and one of the teenagers throwing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Supernaw
Douglas Anderson Supernaw (September 26, 1960November 13, 2020) was an American country music artist. After several years performing as a local musician throughout the state of Texas, he signed with BNA Records in 1993. Supernaw released four studio albums in his career: '' Red and Rio Grande'' (1993), '' Deep Thoughts from a Shallow Mind'' (1994), '' You Still Got Me'' (1995), and ''Fadin' Renegade'' (1999). Between 1993 and 1996, he charted 11 singles on the '' Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, including " I Don't Call Him Daddy", his only No. 1 single, in late 1993. Biography Doug Supernaw was born on September 26, 1960, in Bryan, Texas. He grew up in Inwood Forest, and was an avid golfer and member of his high school golf team. His mother, a fan of country music, exposed him to acts such as George Jones and Gene Watson, by whose works he would later be influenced. Supernaw later attended college on a golfing scholarship. After dropping o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
