Meet Me at the Fair (1953)

In 1904 Doc Tilbee medicine show huckster and champion talltale 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 doesnt 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 Claraall amid nostalgic musical numbers