Centennial Summer (1946)
Director: Otto Preminger
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
An attempt to recapture the family nostalgia of Minnelli's Meet Me in St Louis, made two years earlier, this light musical comedy centres on the Great Exposition of 1876. Sisters Crain and Darnell both drool over dashing Frenchman Cornel Wilde, to the sound of tunes from Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern, who died shortly before the picture was completed. Director Preminger - best remembered now, perhaps, for such adult pictures as Anatomy of a Murder - did a more than adequate job.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Otto Preminger
Producer: Otto Preminger
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, William Eythe, Walter Brennan, Constance Bennett, Dorothy Gish full cast
Genre(s): Musicals
Duration: 102 mins
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