Meet Me in St. Louis
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Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 romantic musical from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which tells the story of four sisters living in St. Louis at the time of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair in 1904. It stars Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Leon Ames, Tom Drake, June Lockhart, and Marjorie Main.
The movie was adapted by Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe from the novel by Sally Benson. It was directed by Vincente Minnelli. Minnelli and Garland met on the set and married the next year. In this film, Garland debuted the now classic song "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Color, Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Music, Song (Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin for "The Trolley Song") and Best Writing, Screenplay.
Meet Me in St. Louis was remade in 1959 for television, starring Jane Powell, Jeanne Crain, Patty Duke, Walter Pidgeon, Ed Wynn, Tab Hunter and Myrna Loy. It was directed by George Schaefer from the original Brecher and Finklehoffe screenplay.
It was remade again for television in 1966. This was a non-musical version starring Shelley Fabares, Celeste Holm, Larry Merrill, Judy Land, Rita Shaw and Morgan Brittany. It was directed by Alan D. Courtney from a script written by Sally Benson herself. This was to be a pilot for a TV series, but no network picked it up.
The 1944 film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
External links
- The Judy Room "Meet Me In St. Louis" Section (http://www.thejudyroom.com/louis.html)
- Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) at the IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037059/)