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Iowa Farmer Frake (Charles Winninger), his wife (Fay Bainter), their son Wayne (Dick Haymes) and their daughter Margy (Jeanne Grain) go to the big State Fair. Farmer Frake's heart is set on winning the Grand Award with his titanic boar. Blue Boy. Mrs. Frake's hopes reside in her crock of heavily spiked mincemeat. Wayne meets and falls for a redhead (Vivian Blaine) who sings with Tommy Thomas' band, and Margy picks up with a Des Moines reporter (Dana Andrews...
Blue Boy, melancholic with love for a redheaded sow, acts his age in time to triumph. One of the judges yields to the beast in him when he tastes Mrs. Frake's brandied mincemeat, so she too triumphs. The son and daughter also finally win their hearts' desires. (Good bit: Margy's and the reporter's innocent embrace when "their" horse wins a harness race, their embarrassed withdrawal, their sudden, serious kiss...
...midway, full of booths with popcorn, and whirling wheels; banners blazon forth the particular peculiarities of the inhabitants of the side show; and above it all, the calliope sounds the motif of a gala occasion in the life of every farmer--the state fair. Into this bucolic paradise, Abel Frake drives his Ford, his family, and his Hampshire boar Blue...
...influence of a comely sow who makes eyes at him from the next pen, wins the blue ribbon. Wayne, Abel's son, takes revenge on a loquacious spieler who had gulled him the year before, but immediately falls under the hypnotic influence of an acrobat in the show. Margy Frake meets Pat Gilbert, a newspaper man from the big city, whose influence with the judges wins the prizes for Mrs. Frake's pickles and mincemeat. Thoroughly satisfied with the week's entertainment, the Frakes drive home to another year of hog-raising and gloating over their six blue ribbons...
...Fair" is the squelching of Will Rogers and his comments on national affairs. He confines his activities almost exclusively, to Blue Boy's exhibition pen where he seems more at home than in the halls of King Arthur's court. Others in the cast, particularly Louise Dresser as Melissa Frake, and victor Jory as the barker, outshine their more highly paid companion, Janet Gaynor...