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Meet Me in St. Louis [Blu-ray]
by Judy Garland (Esther Smith),
Margaret O'Brien (Tootie Smith),
Lucille Bremer (Rose Smith),
Mary Astor (Mrs. Smith),
Leon Ames (Alonzo Smith),
Joan Caroll (Agnes Smith),
Tom Drake (John Truett),
June Lockhart (Lucille Ballard),
Marjorie Main (Katie),
Henry Daniels Jr. (Lon Smith Jr.,Lon Smith Jr.),
Chill Wills (Mr. Neely),
Hugh Marlowe (Col. Darby),
Harry Davenport (Grandpa),
Robert Sully (Warren Sheffield),
Donald Curtis (Dr. Terry),
Mary Jo Ellis (Ida Boothby),
Ken Wilson (Quentin,Quentin),
Robert Emmett O'Connor (Motorman,Conductor),
Darryl Hickman (Johnny Tevis),
Leonard Walker (Conductor),
Victor Kilian (Baggage Man),
John Phipps (Mailman),
Major Sam Harris (Mr. March),
Mayo Newhall (Mr. Braukoff),
Belle Mitchell (Mrs. Braukoff),
Sidney Barnes (Hugo Borvis),
Myron Tobias (George),
Victor Cox (Driver),
Kenneth Donner (Clinton Badger),
Buddy Gorman (Clinton Badger),
Joe Cobbs (Clinton Badger),
Helen Gilbert (Girl on Trolley),
Gary Gray (Boy at Pavilion),
Joan Carroll (Agnes Smith),
Sid Newman (Boy on Trolley),
Dorothy Tuttle (Girl on Trolley),
Vincente Minnelli (Director),
Vincente Minnelli (Director),
Irving Brecher (Screenwriter),
Irving Brecher (Screenwriter),
Fred Finklehoffe (Screenwriter),
Fred Finklehoffe (Screenwriter),
Arthur Freed (Producer),
Sally Benson,
George Folsey (Cinematographer),
Roger Edens (Composer),
Roger Edens (Composer),
Conrad Salinger (Composer),
Conrad Salinger (Composer),
Albert Akst (Editor),
Lemuel Ayers (Art Director),
Cedric Gibbons (Art Director),
Charles Walters (Choreographer),
Victor Heerman (Screenwriter),
Victor Heerman (Screenwriter),
William Ludwig (Screenwriter),
William Ludwig (Screenwriter),
Sarah Y. Mason (Screenwriter),
Sarah Y. Mason (Screenwriter),
Douglas Shearer (Sound Effects),
George Folsey Jr. (Cinematographer),
Jack Martin Smith (Art Director),
Ralph Blane (Composer),
Ralph Blane (Composer),
Hugh Martin (Composer),
Hugh Martin (Composer),
Edwin Willis (Set Design),
Paul Huldschinsky (Set Design),
George Stoll (Composer)
George Stoll (Composer)
Format: Blu-ray
ISBN: 888574678906
Publication Date: 04/24/2018
Sally Benson's short stories about the turn-of-the-century Smith family of St. Louis were tackled by a battalion of MGM screenwriters, who hoped to find a throughline to connect the anecdotal tales. After several false starts (one of which proposed that the eldest Smith daughter be kidnapped and held for ransom), the result was the charming valentine-card musical Meet Me in St. Louis. The plot hinges on the possibility that Alonzo Smith (Leon Ames), the family's banker father, might uproot the Smiths to New York, scuttling his daughter Esther (Judy Garland)'s romance with boy-next-door John Truett (Tom Drake) and causing similar emotional trauma for the rest of the household. In a cast that includes Mary Astor as Ames' wife, Lucille Bremer as another Ames daughter, and Marjorie Main as the housekeeper, the most fascinating character is played by 6-year-old Margaret O'Brien. As kid sister Tootie, O'Brien seems morbidly obsessed with death and murder, burying her dolls, "killing" a neighbor at Halloween (she throws flour in the flustered man's face on a dare), and maniacally bludgeoning her snowmen when Papa announces his plans to move to New York. Margaret O'Brien won a special Oscar for her remarkable performance, prompting Lionel Barrymore to grumble "Two hundred years ago, she would have been burned at the stake!" The songs are a heady combination of period tunes and newly minted numbers by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin, the best of which are "The Boy Next Door," "The Trolley Song," and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." As a bonus, Meet Me in St. Louis is lensed in rich Technicolor, shown to best advantage in the climactic scenes at the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904.
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