Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
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Back in 1944, "The Boy Next Door" was a popular tune sung by Judy Garland in the musical masterpiece Meet Me in St. Louis.
We've certainly come a ways since Judy Garland sang “The Boy Next Door” in Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis!
Remember an incandescent Judy Garland standing in a moonlit window in the 1944 screen musical Meet Me in St. Louis, wistfully pining for the boy next door, whom she doubts knows she even exists?
Is this his ongoing homage to the ridiculous looking Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis?
It may be that Linklater had something more family-focused in mind when he began; when Boyhood starts, sister Samantha is a delightful brat on the lines of Margaret O'Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis.
One can easily imagine walking around in the palpable, richly textured worlds of the original Star Wars trilogy, or the musical spectacles produced by Arthur Freed at MGM in the 40s and 50s (Meet Me in St. Louis, Singin' in the Rain).
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…opting instead for an old-school intimacy with his musical numbers — less West Side Story, more Meet Me in St. Louis.