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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 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; Based on: Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 film by Vincente Minnelli: Written by: George Baxt: Directed by: George Schaefer: Starring: Tab Hunter Jane Powell Walter Pidgeon: Music by: Franz Allers: Country of origin: United States: Original language: English: Production; Producer: David Susskind: Running time: 120 minutes ...
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 song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” is a holiday classic, but its genesis goes back to Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis. It turns out, she helped this melancholy Christmas ...
June Lockhart (born June 25, 1925) is an American retired actress, beginning a film career in the 1930s and 1940s in such films as A Christmas Carol and Meet Me in St. Louis. She acted primarily in 1950s and 1960s television and with performances on stage and in film. On two television series, Lassie and Lost in Space, she played mother roles.
Arguably her most memorable role was in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), opposite Judy Garland [citation needed]. For her performance in this film as the younger sister "Tootie", she was awarded a special juvenile Oscar in 1944 [citation needed]. Margaret and June Allyson were known as "The Town Criers" of MGM. "We were always in competition: I ...
For Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Freed again hired Minnelli to direct. Framed around the four seasons, the film tells of the Smith family and their conflicts, with the conclusion focused on the family's celebration of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. [71] Judy Garland was cast as Esther Smith, though she felt her role would be overshadowed by ...