Meet Me at the Fair

Jan 1, 1953

1h 27m

★ 7.0

Overview

In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions (the result of political graft) are being investigated by new appointee Zerelda Wing, who doesn't know that her fiancée is one of the politicians responsible. Tad wants to stay with his new friend Doc, who is attracted to Zerelda, to the discomfiture of his old flame Clara...all amid nostalgic musical numbers.

Genres

Music

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Doc Tilbee

Dan Dailey

Zerelda Wing

Diana Lynn

Enoch Jones

Scatman Crothers

Tad Bayliss

Chet Allen

Chilton Corr

Hugh O'Brian

Clara Brink

Carole Mathews

Pete McCoy

Rhys Williams

Billy Gray

Thomas E. Jackson

Sheriff Evans

Russell Simpson

Deputy Leach

George Chandler

Mrs. Spooner

Virginia Brissac

Mr. Spooner

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