State Fair (1945) - Quotes

A Celebration of Joyful Emotions

Taglines: YOUR HEART WILL SING OUT LOUD!

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A Celebration for All Ages and Hearts

Taglines: For the young in heart! And romantic oldsters, too!

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Disillusionment with the Fair Experience

Margy Frake: [leaving the fair] I never want to see another fair.

Wayne Frake: You can say that again!

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Unconditional Love in State Fair

Margy Frake: Pat!

Pat Gilbert: Yes?

Margy Frake: I was only talking. I couldn't marry anybody but you. Ever!

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Desire for Change at the Fair

Melissa Frake: I don't know what's gotten into you lately. All you do is sit around and mope.

Margy Frake: I don't sit around and mope.

Melissa Frake: Well, stop moping now, and finish your packing.

Margy Frake: Always saying she doesn't know what's got into me. I'll be glad to get to the fair. Hear something different. See something different for a change. What has got into me anyway?

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A Game of Chance and Choices

Wayne Frake: [throws embroidery hoop] Thank you, mister. And now I think I'll have a try at the fancy brass clock. Yes, that one. There you are.

Margy Frake: Wayne?

Wayne Frake: That's a nice string of pearls. I think I'll have a go at them. Oh, I know they're fakes. but...

Margy Frake: Wayne! What are you doing?

Wayne Frake: How long have you been there?

Margy Frake: Oh, just a little while.

Wayne Frake: Then why didn't you say something, instead of just standing there?

Margy Frake: Who were you talking to? And does Mother know you have her embroidery hoops out here?

Wayne Frake: Look, just leave me alone, will you, and stop prying in other people's affairs?

Margy Frake: Speaking of affairs, Eleanor's on the phone.

Wayne Frake: Eleanor? Well, Christmas, why didn't you tell me?

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Modern Farming vs. Traditional Values

Margy Frake: Got a house on it?

Harry Ware: Yeah, but it's too old. We'd have to build a new one.

Margy Frake: Oh, I like old houses.

Harry Ware: Oh, it wouldn't fit in with our kind of farm. You know, I plan to do everything my old man won't let me do on his place. Scientific irrigation. Electric milking. Separate hen roosts. No horses. All tractor power. You see what I mean? Everything modern.

Margy Frake: Ohh... but the house you live in...

Harry Ware: It's got to be the same. No old clapboard shingle business. There is a new kind of plastic, pre-fabricated job. I want you to see it at the catalog home.

Margy Frake: Is it pretty?

Harry Ware: Sure, but what's more important it's termite proof. Wait til you see it. They tell you how to furnish it too. No rugs or carpets, they're just dust collectors.

Margy Frake: What's on the floor?

Harry Ware: Linoleum - through the whole house. Wait until you see the pictures. It's sleek and smooth, easy to keep clean. Well, it's like every room in the house was a bathroom.

Margy Frake: Sounds real cozy...

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Recipe Discrepancy Between Family Members

Melissa Frake: Mmm, I don't know.

Abel Frake: Let me taste. Don't taste like Grandma Stitch's.

Melissa Frake: I followed the recipe.

Abel Frake: You left something out.

Melissa Frake: Abel Frake, I am not going to put liquor in my cooking!

Abel Frake: Making mincemeat without brandy? No such thing.

Melissa Frake: I don't approve of it, and I won't do it.

Abel Frake: You'll be sorry. You know, those judges at the fair, they like a little snifter now and then.

A Playful Exchange on Spelling and Size

Harry Ware: Biggest boar in the world, I bet.

Margy Frake: All depends on how you spell it.

Nostalgia and Disappointment in Simple Rhymes

McGee: [putting a drunk Wayne to bed] One shoe off and the other shoe off. Diddle diddle dumpling my son John. Hey, that don't rhyme like it used to.

Award Presentation and Its Rarity

Mr. Hippenstahl: [quite drunk] As you are undoubtlessly aware, this distinguished award is given out only under the rarest shircum- circul- We don't give it out much...