Dec 16th
Meet Me in St. Louis***
US 1946. MGM. 113m.
A year in the life of a St. Louis family leading up to the city's hosting of the World's Fair in 1904.
Perfectly self-contained musical family drama with no great shakes, but charming in the evocation of its own time and place (covering the same period as The Magnificent Ambersons but with more sentiment), and beautifully colourful with some nice songs that have outlasted the film.
Written by: Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe, from the novel by Sally Benson.
Producer: Arthur Freed.
Director: Vincente Minnelli.
Starring: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Leon Ames, Tom Drake, Lucille Bremer, Harry Davenport, Marjorie Main, Henry H. Daniels Jnr, Joan Carroll, June Lockhart.
Photography: George Folsey.
Musical Direction: Georgie Stoll.
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Lemuel Ayers, Jack Martin Smith.
Costume: Irene Sharaff.
Meet Me in St. Louis***
US 1946. MGM. 113m.
A year in the life of a St. Louis family leading up to the city's hosting of the World's Fair in 1904.
Perfectly self-contained musical family drama with no great shakes, but charming in the evocation of its own time and place (covering the same period as The Magnificent Ambersons but with more sentiment), and beautifully colourful with some nice songs that have outlasted the film.
Written by: Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe, from the novel by Sally Benson.
Producer: Arthur Freed.
Director: Vincente Minnelli.
Starring: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Leon Ames, Tom Drake, Lucille Bremer, Harry Davenport, Marjorie Main, Henry H. Daniels Jnr, Joan Carroll, June Lockhart.
Photography: George Folsey.
Musical Direction: Georgie Stoll.
Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Lemuel Ayers, Jack Martin Smith.
Costume: Irene Sharaff.
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