Synopsis
M·G·M's glorious love story with music!
In the year before the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.
1944 Directed by Vincente Minnelli
In the year before the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.
Die große Liebe nebenan, Die törichten Jungfrauen, Le chant du Missouri, Cita en San Luis, Agora Seremos Felizes, 세인트 루이스에서 만나요, Срещни ме в Сейнт-Луис
judy garland herself said “make the yuletide gay” so we have no choice but to do just that
DO 👏 THEY 👏 EAT 👏 THE 👏 KETCHUP 👏 THAT 👏 KATIE 👏 MADE 👏 AS 👏 SOUP 👏 AT 👏 DINNER? 👏 I'VE WATCHED THIS MOVIE 4 TIMES AND I STILL CAN NOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME FIGURE IT OUT
part of my february watchlist: favorites
When the Father’s singing voice convinces the girls to eat their Halloween cake - wow!
This movie is awesome 👏
Really one of the saddest films you can think of. Minnelli's colors, his trinket-ization of bourgeois interiors, and Judy Garland's Cake Walk dances are manic attempts by the Smith family to keep their depression at bay, to delay the growing up of the Smith sisters. As soon as the fun parts of the day end (John Truitt turning off his warm winter orange lights after asking Esther to marry him), darkness creeps in (Esther and Tootie cloaked in deep-dark blues — the shade of sorrow — they will be moving to a foreign place where they know nobody and won't be able to talk with anybody "like we do in St. Louis"). Judy Garland only infrequently smiles; in the ostensibly…
"next year all our troubles will be miles away."
"until then we'll have to muddle through somehow."