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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; 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 ...
Liza Minnelli — daughter of Garland and Meet Me in St. Louis director Vincent Minnelli — told PEOPLE earlier this month that the song remains her favorite Christmas Carol. “It’s a family ...
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.
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 ...
Aug. 14—Joplin Stained Glass Theatre's production of "Meet Me in St. Louis" will kick off its new season this week. Kelly Weaver, director, said many people might be familiar with the musical ...
She appeared in nearly 30 films for the studio, including The Wizard of Oz (1939), Meet Me in St. Louis ... Related: The 8 best Judy Garland movies to stream for her 100th birthday. Frank Morgan ...