Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 American Technicolor musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 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 World’s Fair) in the spring of 1904. The film stars Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Leon Ames, Marjorie Main, June Lockhart, and Joan Carroll. A major success with both critics and audiences, Meet Me in St. Louis was the second-highest grossing picture of 1944, only behind Going My Way, and was also MGM’s most successful musical of the 1940s. In 1994, the film was deemed “culturally significant” by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Music composers were Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin, Bham-Southern student in 1940s Martin was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of Ellie Gordon (Robinson) and Hugh Martin, Sr., an architect. Ralph Blane (born Ralph Uriah Hunsecker; July 26, 1914, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
Songs with Banjo from Harold Hagler
