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Meet Me in St. Louis would mark Bremer's film debut. Rounding out the cast of Meet Me in St. Louis were Leon Ames as family patriarch Alonzo Smith, Mary Astor as his wife, Tom Drake as Esther's boy-next-door love interest, Harry Davenport as Grandpa, and Marjorie Main as Katie, the Smiths' no-nonsense maid.
- Vincente Minnelli, J. E. Jennings
- Judy Garland
Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 American Christmas 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 (most commonly referred to as the World's ...
Background. Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) is a delightful, classic, nostalgic, poignant, and romanticized musical film - and one of the greatest musicals ever made. It tells the story of a turn-of-the-century family in suburban, midwestern St. Louis of 1903, who live in a stylish Edwardian home at 5135 Kensington Avenue.
Harry Davenport. Grandpa. June Lockhart. Lucille Ballard. Henry H. Daniels Jr. Lon Smith Jr. Joan Carroll. Agnes Smith. Hugh Marlowe. Col. Darly. Robert Sully. Warren Sheffield. Chill Wills. Mr. Neely. Sidney Barnes. Hugo Borvis (uncredited) Judi Blacque. Girl on Trolley (uncredited) Victor Cox. Driver (uncredited) Donald Curtis.
His roles include Dr. Meade in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Grandpa in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). Bette Davis once called Davenport "without a doubt [. . .] the greatest character actor of all time." [2] [3] Early life. Harry Davenport was born January 19, 1866, [4] in Canton, Pennsylvania, where his family lived during the holidays.
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Dec 9, 2017 · Eighteen-year-old Rose (Lucille Bremer) is waiting for her boyfriend away at college to propose; 19-year-old Lon (Harry H. Daniels, Jr.) has just been dumped; and 10-year-old Agnes (Joan...
Dec 5, 2019 · Dec. 5, 2019 7 AM PT. If you’ve watched the classic 1944 musical “Meet Me in St. Louis,” you know it’s hard not to get misty at the poignant sequence in which Judy Garland sings “Have...
