Alonzo Smith and his wife Anna have four daughters: Rose, Esther, Agnes and Tootie, and a son, Lon Jr. In the summer of 1903, the Smith family leads a comfortable upper-middle class life. Louis, Missouri, in the year preceding the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair. Margaret O'Brien and Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. The film's producer Arthur Freed also wrote and performed one of the songs. 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. In 1994, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. It became the second-highest grossing film of 1944, behind only Going My Way, and was also MGM's most successful musical of the 1940s. Louis was both a critical and a commercial success. Tony Award-winning designer Lemuel Ayers served as the film's art director. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, who met Garland on the set and later married her.
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Finklehoffe from a series of short stories by Sally Benson originally published in The New Yorker magazine called "The Kensington Stories" and later in novel form as Meet Me in St. The film was adapted by Irving Brecher and Fred F. The film stars Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Leon Ames, Marjorie Main, June Lockhart and Joan Carroll. 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. 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 is a 1944 American Christmas musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. By being so spot on by choosing someone on the cusp of getting a little older yet with plenty of playful, youthful vigor we sense the conflict and the melancholy.Meet Me in St.
It is not so much Clooney's acting that is a marvel as the casting, which was perfect. For example the use of the smart phones in the new techno/relationship world is not simply put in as a momentum mechanism but is used as a symbol to satirize contemporary society. There were also some smart satirical illustrations of contemporary times in business, relationships, how people interact and the recession. We are all too familiar with the fiercely independent, non-committal, cockily at ease bachelor and we have also come across the, sharp, type A, ivy league know it all yet with an obvious naivety especially shown with her declaration of the specific laundry list of traits that her partner must have. The two main characters, although not the most true to life characters ever created, were brilliant satires of people we all know.
And it was still interesting and entertaining to watch the contemporary witticisms. Part of the story took a dull meandering at times, however there were unconventional plot twists that made something that was seemingly Hollywood predictable not that way at all. A Monotone mood is established, that gave a bland aspect as though nothing substantial was happening. By taking a definitive stance the movie provides interesting commentary on those that for whatever reason (not necessarily for work) don't stay put. What the movie really is about is lifestyle choices, and relationship choices, choosing independence and freedom versus commitment and well established interpersonal relationships. Her ideas clash with his personal lifestyle choices. He meets a young ambitious woman that joins his company and who wants to change the system. About a man whose unique job is to fly around the country to inform people that they are fired. We are drawn in by interesting, unique storyline and smart satirizations.
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