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Bookmark this pageMeet Me in St Louis (1944)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Minnelli's captivating musical still comes up fresh as paint with each successive viewing, as charmingly, romantically nostalgic as an old valentine. One reason, quite apart from the wit and warmth of the characterisations or the skill with which Minnelli integrates the numbers, is that the seismic little shudders of dismay that shake the St Louis family of 1903 - threatened with a move to New York, where father has a better job waiting - seem to hint at the end of an era and the disappearance of a world where such uncomplicated happiness can exist. It's a feeling which the self-enclosed formality of the film encourages, with its division into four acts, each introduced by a filigreed tintype from the family album which gradually springs to life. One of the great musicals.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Producer: Arthur Freed
Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Leon Ames, Mary Astor, Tom Drake, Lucille Bremer, Marjorie Main, June Lockhart, Harry Davenport full cast
Genre(s): Musicals
Rated: U
Duration: 113 mins
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