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Meet Me in St Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis poster.jpg
Theatrical poster
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Produced by Arthur Freed
Screenplay by Irving Brecher
Fred F. Finklehoffe
Based on Meet Me in St. Louis
by Sally Benson
Starring Judy Garland
Margaret O'Brien
Mary Astor
Lucille Bremer
Tom Drake
Marjorie Main
Cinematography George J. Folsey
Edited by Albert Akst
Production
company
Distributed by Loew's, Inc.
Release date
  • November 22, 1944 (1944-11-22) (St. Louis)
  • November 28, 1944 (1944-11-28) (New York)
Running time
113 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $1,885,000
Box office $6,566,000 (original release)
$12,800,000

Meet Me in St. Louis is a musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and released in 1944. 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 (more commonly referred to as the World's Fair) in the spring of 1904. The picture stars Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Leon Ames, Marjorie Main, June Lockhart, and Joan Carroll.

The movie was adapted by Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe from a series of short stories by Sally Benson, originally published in The New Yorker magazine under the title "5135 Kensington", and later in novel form as Meet Me in St. Louis. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, who met Garland on the set and later married her. It was the second-highest grossing picture of the year, only behind Going My Way.

Garland debuted the standards "The Trolley Song", "The Boy Next Door", and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", all of which became hits after the film was released. Arthur Freed, the producer of the film, also wrote and performed one of the songs.


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