Slideshow
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
Sunday, February 23
11:00 – FF Jr.
Thursday, March 6
5:30
Based on a series of New Yorker stories (later published as a book) by Sally Benson, first published in The New Yorker in 1942.
U.S., 1944
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
With Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor, Tom Drake
Approx. 113 min. DCP.
In turn of the century St. Loo-ee, Judy Garland sings about trollies and pines for “Boy Next Door” Tom Drake, Margaret O’Brien braves the terrors of Halloween, Mom Mary Astor looks lovely in Technicolored middle-age, and Dad Leon Ames debates taking that Gotham job as the 1903 World’s Fair beckons.
Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film and the Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s
Reviews
“Hollywood’s great holiday musical is the sparkling adaptation of writer Sally Benson’s memoir: a movie that takes us on a Currier and Ives 1903 holiday tour of St. Louis with the postcard-perfect Smith family.”
– Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
“One of the first films to integrate musical numbers into the plot, it explores, without condescension or simple mindedness, the feelings that drive the family members apart and then bring them back together again.”
– Dave Kehr