Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis is a musical film made by MetroGoldwynMayer 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 Worlds Fair in the spring of 1904. The picture stars Judy Garland, Margaret OBrien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Leon Ames, Marjorie Main, June Lockhart, and Joan Carroll.

The backdrop for Meet Me in St. Louis is St. Louis, Missouri in the year leading up to the 1904 Worlds Fair.It is summer 1903. The Smith family leads a comfortable uppermiddle class life. Alonzo Smith Leon Ames and his wife Anna Mary Astor have four daughters Rose Lucille Bremer, Esther, Agnes, and Tootie and a son, Lon Jr. Henry H. Daniels, Jr. Esther, the second eldest daughter Judy Garland, is in love with the boy next door, John Truett Tom Drake, although he does not notice her at first. Rose is expecting a phone call in which she hopes to be proposed to by Warren Sheffield Robert Sully. ........

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