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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.

Meet Me at the Fair
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	Universal-International Pictures
Distributed by	Universal-International Pictures
Release date	January 1953 (1953-01)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.3 million (US rentals)[1]

Synopsis

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

External links

• Meet Me at the Fair at IMDb

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