MEET ME AT THE FAIR
Saturday, August 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Siskel Film Center
screening
1953, Douglas Sirk, USA, 87 mins. In English | Format: 16mm from the Chicago Film Society. A tuneful, rosily nostalgic slice of Americana about an orphan on the run who joins up with a traveling medicine show headed by the charming Doc (Dan Dailey) and his assistant (Scatman Crothers, making his Hollywood debut). A lively slice of Americana filtered through the eye of German émigré and melodrama master Sirk, featuring romance, small town corruption, and showbiz hustle in Technicolor.