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Director Henry King went to the 1932 Iowa State Fair and Exposition in Des Moines with Stong and a camera crew at the invitation of the fair and filmed background material there. Joseph A. Valentine and Edwin Hammeras photographed background plates, atmospheric shots and race sequences at the fair and used the new Eastman Grayback Background Negative film stock. The rest of the production was shot an Eastman Supersensitive Negative stock and used two cameras wherever possible. Fox purchased three hogs from the fair, including the grand champion, Dike of Rosedale, who was cast as "Blue Boy."

The storekeeper says that Henry VIII had eight wives. He had six.

Most of the credits appear as posters being put up on billboards by workmen. In the film's final scene, there is a heavy rain, and as it washes away the poster bearing the title "State Fair", we see that it was pasted over another poster that says "The End".

The original version had a bedroom scene in which Emily and Wayne are heard talking offscreen with Emily's negligee lying on a chair, suggesting that they were in bed together for illicit sex. This scene was cut in 1935 from all existing prints in order to get an approval certificate from the PCA for a re-release. The scene is not included in the print that the Fox Movie Channel currently broadcasts.

Featured in Lest We Forget (1937)