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Centennial Summer is a 1946 American musical film directed by Otto Preminger. [3] [4] Starring Jeanne Crain and Cornel Wilde , the film is based on a novel by Albert E. Idell. It was produced in response to the hugely successful 1944 MGM musical film Meet Me in St. Louis .
Centennial Summer: Directed by Otto Preminger. With Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, William Eythe. In 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters vie for the affections of a Frenchman who's come to town to prepare the French pavilion for the Centennial exposition.
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- History, Music, Romance
- Otto Preminger
- 1946-08
The film's title card reads, "Jerome Kern's Centennial Summer."When Twentieth Century-Fox purchased the rights to Albert E. Idell's best seller in 1943, it apparently did not intend to make the property as a musical, as indicated by early 1944 screenplays in the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Arts-Special Collections Library.
- Otto Preminger, Robert Hill, Arthur Jacobson
- Jeanne Crain
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Philadelphia in the summer of 1876 and lots of celebration to mark America's first hundred years. The Rogers family are visited by their aunt Zenia (Constance Bennett), who brings with her a young Frenchman, Philippe Lascalles (Cornel Wilde), who is in charge of the French pavillon. Rogers family daughters, Julia (Jeanne Crain) and Edith (Linda ...
Centennial Summer (Otto Preminger, 1946) 8/10 Twentieth Century Fox's answer to MGM's "Meet Me in St Louis" is set in 1876 Philadelphia during the Centennial Exposition. This lavishly produced film with songs, subtly directed by Preminger, is dazzlingly filmed in technicolor with superb production values and Jerome Kern's last score.
