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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.
The stories were first written as short vignettes in a series, 5135 Kensington, which The New Yorker published from June 14, 1941 to May 23, 1942. Benson took her original eight vignettes and added four more stories for a book compilation with each chapter representing a month of a year (from 1903 to 1904). [1]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
MGM's Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) was one of the more popular movies made during World War II. The stories in Sally Benson's book Meet Me in St. Louis were first written as short vignettes in a series titled 5135 Kensington, which The New Yorker published from June 14, 1941 to May 23, 1942. Benson took her original eight vignettes and added ...
Judy Garland and chorus perform "The Trolley Song" in Meet Me in St. Louis "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 ...
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