Esther switches her dance card with Lucille's and takes on the clumsy and awkward partners.
She suggests that Warren should be with Rose, allowing her to be with Lon. They are surprised to find that Lucille is warm, friendly and not a snob. At the ball, Esther and Rose plot to ruin the evening of Warren's date Lucille Ballard by filling her dance card with losers.
Esther is relieved when her grandfather offers to take her to the ball instead. John cannot take Esther because he was too late to pick up his tuxedo. Smith is also upset, she reconciles with her husband and they sing a tender duet at the piano.Īn elegant ball takes place on Christmas Eve. Esther is also aghast because they will miss the World's Fair. The family is devastated by the news, especially Rose and Esther, whose romances, friendships and educational plans are threatened. Smith announces that he is to be sent to New York City on business and they will all move there after Christmas. Upon learning the truth, Esther apologizes to John and they share their first kiss. After Esther returns, Tootie and Agnes confess the truth: John was trying to protect them from the police after a dangerous prank went wrong. Esther confronts John, physically attacking and scolding him. Later, after Tootie appears with a split lip and lost tooth, she claims that John tried to kill her. On Halloween, Tootie and Agnes attend a bonfire. Rose, the eldest daughter, hopes in vain to receive a marriage proposal from Warren Sheffield.Įsther finally meets John properly when he is a guest at the Smiths' party and hopes to meet him again on a trolley ride to the construction site of the World's Fair. Esther, the second-oldest daughter, is in love with the boy next door, John Truett, although he does not notice her at first. 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.
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If you have any corrections, feel free to drop me a line. I know, I know, I still need to get the character names in there.I'm workin' on it, trust me. The entire dialogue script, all the quotes, the whole shebang. Louis transcript is here for all you fans of musical movies.
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