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Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1989 musical based on the 1944 film of the same name, which in turn is based on the 1942 novel of the same name by Sally Benson.The musical is about a wealthy lawyer's large family and household living in St. Louis, Missouri in a Victorian era style mansion and their excitement and anticipation of the family and the city on the eve of the 1904 World's Fair.
Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 American Christmas musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Divided into a series of seasonal vignettes, starting with Summer 1903, it relates the story of a year in the life of the Smith family in St. Louis leading up to the opening of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (most commonly referred to as the World's Fair) in the spring of 1904.
"Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis", better known as just "Meet Me in St. Louis", is a popular song from 1904 on the occurrence of the St. Louis World's Fair which celebrated the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The words were by Andrew B. Sterling; [1] the music by Kerry Mills. [2] The song was published in 1904 in New York by Mills's firm, F. A. Mills.
The Trolley Song. " The Trolley Song " is a song written by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin and made famous by Judy Garland in the 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis. [3] In a 1989 NPR interview, Blane and Martin reminisced about the song's genesis. They were assigned to write a song for the trolley scene in the film.
The song was written in 1943 [2] [3] [4] for the film Meet Me in St. Louis, for which MGM had hired Martin and Blane to write several songs. [4] Martin was vacationing in a house in the neighborhood of Southside in Birmingham, Alabama, that his father Hugh Martin had designed for his mother as a honeymoon cottage, located just down the street from his birthplace, and which later became the ...
The Boy Next Door (song) " The Boy Next Door " is a 1944 popular song by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane. It was introduced in the musical film Meet Me in St. Louis, where it was performed by Judy Garland to an arrangement of Conrad Salinger conducted by Georgie Stoll. It has been praised as a perfect example of how to advance story and reveal a ...
June 25 – July 1: Music in the Air MP. July 2–8: Miss Liberty MP. July 9–15: Die Fledermaus. July 16–22: Girl Crazy. July 23–29: Rodgers and Hammerstein Music Festival C. July 30 – August 5: The Bohemian Girl. August 6–12: The Merry Widow. August 13–19: The Wizard of Oz. August 20 – September 2: The Great Waltz.
Hugh Martin (August 11, 1914 – March 11, 2011) was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright.He was best known for his score for the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis, in which Judy Garland sang three Martin songs, "The Boy Next Door", "The Trolley Song", and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".