After the massive success of Oklahoma!, Rodgers & Hammerstein were asked to write a musical film adaptation of 20th Century Fox’s 1933 family comedy State Fair. With Oscar Hammerstein II penning the screenplay and lyrics, Richard Rodgers composed a rich score, sweeping audiences to the Iowa State Fair alongside the eager and excited Frake family. Starring Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes and Vivian Blaine, State Fair was released August 20, 1945, after making a star-studded premiere at the Roxy Theatre in New York City. Directed by Walter Lang, the film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “It Might As Well Be Spring,” which soon became part of the Great American Songbook. (Mr. Hammerstein is, to date, the only Oscar to win an Oscar.)