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State Fair

State Fair is the title of a 1933 movie starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, and Lew Ayres, and also of a 1945 musical remake starring Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, and Charles Winninger[?], and also of a 1962 remake of the musical starring Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, and Ann-Margret.

The 1933 film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture; it has some scenes that would have been censored out a few years later. The 1945 film won an Academy Award, for Best Song, for It Might As Well be Spring by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.