FIRST TIME WATCHING "MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS" (REACTION & REVIEW)
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- Опубликовано: 12 дек 2020
- FIRST TIME WATCHING "MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS" - REACTION & REVIEW & RATING!
First reaction video. More to come! Had so many issues along the way but learned a lot.
Starring: Judy Garland
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Featuring: The Trolly Song and Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
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I think the antagonist of the movie is the imminent move, not the father himself. Their family is happy in St Louis. They're obviously not struggling for money. They have a house big enough for their grandpa to live with them. Moving to NY would have changed their family life drastically- and most likely, not for the better. So I think the father realized that more money wasn't going to buy them the happiness they already had in St Louis. "don't look under their carpets" haha! I hope you do some more reactions to old musicals. loved it.
Good points! I didn't mention it, but I actually enjoyed the unconventional structure of this movie. The father ultimately had the biggest character arch in the movie, which would support your idea that the move itself is the antagonist...as he had the final decision. After the Christmas movies, I would LOVE to do more classics and older musicals!! Glad you enjoyed :)
@@thebeeshow6496 the antagonist is New York City
Dude... Back in the day ... a LOT of families use to sing ALL THE TIME... many families had a piano and someone in the family always
knew how to PLAY IT... they would use it for entertainment... ... watch a show like the Waltons... One of the boys played the piano...
😀
My favorite musical of all time! Love Judy Garland!
Judy was phenomenal in this!
IMO the greatest performer of the last 100 years
I love this movie, I think everyone should watch it. It’s so beautiful and lighthearted, something different from modern movies and it also provides you with sort of a history lesson which I think is cool. It’s very nostalgic too. Great video!!
Thanks! And I agree! I enjoyed it a lot!
and ... back in the day... many families would gather around the piano and sing for entertainment... someone in almost every family could play the piano... and many families back in the day had a piano... so singing around the house isn't so unusual... I grew up in a musical family... I STILL sing around the house all the time.
I wish people still did that
@@thebeeshow6496 (we would have MUCH better world... IF THEY DID...our secret!)
YUP... this is where the song (have yourself a merry little Christmas) is from... THEE greatest secular Christmas tune of all time...
Hers is by far the best version
@@thebeeshow6496 FOR SURE... no contest...
Totally agree.
DUDE it was the 1904 WORLDS FAIR....
EVERYONE MISSES THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS... INCLUDING YOU... it's ALL about the FABULOUS 1904 Worlds FAIR... and an entire Family is anticipating its arrival a year before the event... we go through the season and holidays with them in anticipation of THAT event... everything else... is a side story... THE expectation of THE FAIR is the central theme... lucky for us, the two eldest girls fall in love... there's some drama with the Father possibly moving the family to NYC... which would put a big dent in "Judy's" love interest plans... oh yah... and prevent the family from seeing the WORLDS FAIR... the movie starts with family members singing "Meet me in St Louis, meet me at THE FAIR... ..." THE movie ends with the ENTIRE family on the opening day of THE FAIR... IT'S ALL rather cyclical... that is, we start and end on the same theme...
yes, very good point that I missed!
i really do appreciate that cyclical quality.
I'm still surprised that there wasn't a big ensemble moment at the fair even if they all just. sang "meeeet me at the faaaaaiiiirrr!" I was craving it lol
@@thebeeshow6496 That would have made sense... proably the movie went on to long and they had to bring it to a close... (you know... back in those days, the Worlds Fair ALSO included The Olympics"... the photos are hysterical... they were LITERALLY swimming and diving into a large pond... LOL
Only in for 10 minutes and your making me laugh like crazy!! Seriously, your comments are like mine when I watch a show for the first time!! Haha
Haha! Thanks for watching! So glad you enjoyed :)
"This child is going to grow up a serial killer".
Yeah, she freaked me out too.
Hahaha. Right?
LOVED your review. its a wonderful old movie
Thanks so much 🙏 Great movie! Glad I finally saw it :)
Re-view this film once more in detail & you will find the set designs, costumes, scenic effects & lighting all part of Vincent Minelli’s vision for this beautifully shot film even down to the seasonal placards…he once admitted :
‘Remember it’s not St Louis in 1903 as it actually was - it is St Louis in the 1903 that we wish could have been…’
The nearly 22-year old Judy Garland did not want to play the teenage role of Esther (‘I’ve been playing teenagers for 10 years & I want to play a Woman!’ )
And it took some cajoling on Vincent Minelli’s part (they became engag’d soon after shooting the film) and the studio execs to explain to her that this would be a marvelous transition into playing a young woman by the end of the film - and after not playing the part with much credibility during the first 2 weeks of shooting Vincent sat her down & explain’d exactly how her character should act and that she should BELIEVE it too so the audience would … and she felt that he struck a chord in her soul about how to act which chang’d her whole attitude towards acting from that moment on - and she went on to play Esther beautifully -
The character of Tootie (10 year old Margaret O’Brien) had a ghoulish undertone (her character was always seeing the sordid sides of life & especially death (‘I buried Maude Rockefeller to-day, you miss’d all the fun !’ or ‘I’m taking all my dolls with me-the dead ones too…’ )
On set Margaret us’d to re-arrange the tableware set during the hour long pauses between the various takes - which at one point had Vincent Minelli threatening to take her off the picture … and later, to get her to cry during the Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas scene he told her that he just got a note from her mother saying that her pet dog had died -and after the scene was over explain’d the ‘fib’ was only to get her to act - she didn’t like it much …
Brooklyn born Tom Drake in real life had a very bad temper & when he heard they were going to pull the song ‘Have yourself a merry little Christmas’ because Judy & the songwriter hated the sordid original lyrics (‘Have yourself a merry little Christmas - it might be your last - next year we’ll all be living in the past…’
(which the overly proud Ralph Blaine refuse’d to change a word) until Tom Drake exploded with rage at him telling him he ‘wasn’t writing a grand tragic opera & who did he think he was, William Shakespeare ?’ which brought him down a little closer to earth & rewrote the final version of the song we know to-day to everybody’s satisfaction - even Judy’s… !!
One final note - the Trolley Song was shot in single takes (including closeups) without reshoots - thanks largely to Judy’s great powers of concentration - when she only put to use when she REALLY wanted to …
Amazing! Thanks for all this!
Wonderful commentary. Thank you.
HATE to tell you... but St Louis... is like that.. we have a LOT of "Indian Summer days" in the winter... all the time... one minute it's in the low 20's.. two days latter... sunny and in the 70's... got to LOVE St Louis!!!!
I would love to visit!!
Also “ oh the trumpet lady fell right on her arse “ this whole reaction is gold. Keep doing these Bee.
Lol
Thanks for this fun look at this movie.
A couple of points that might add to future viewings:
The calendar of the story is building up to the Worlds Fair at the end: this is why everyone sings the song: they are excited about the World's Fair - the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis was an important event for the city, and in introducing several points of progress and food. So it was a big deal to the family, to whom the city meant a great deal in any event.
Vincente Minnelli asked to make this movie, and met opposition because of the absence of a strong plot. He explained that he wanted to show a year in the life of a family. The structure is the course of year, starting in summer, moving through Halloween and Christmas, ending with the Fair. He and Judy Garland met while making this movie. Therefore, if you decide to watch this again, you might "ride through it" more easily understanding what the motivation of making the movie was.
The maid was Marjorie Main, a delightful, eccentric character actress who specialized in rough-and-ready truth-telling women. She and Garland are together in another musical, "The Harvey Girls", where you can also see a young and very beautiful Angel Lansbury. Ray Bolger, who was the Scarecrow in "Wizard of Oz" is also in "The Harvey Girls" and has a very fun number late into the movie.
The youngest daughter is played by Margaret O'Brien, who was in many movies during this period. She and June Allyson were very good at crying for the camera, and were known as "the town cryers". She is a very good actress, and I hope you will be able to see her in more movies to see her ability to feed and support her fellow actors. I especially like her in "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes", where she plays the daughter of a gentle, lovely Edward G. Robinson, and a no-nonsense, loving Agnes Moorehead. O'Brien and June Allyson are together in "Little Women", along with Mary Astor as Mrs. March - Mary Astor is the mother in "Meet Me In St. Louis".
Thanks again for sharing your review of this movie.
Great insight! And thank you for the I put :)
Great reaction video!
I love Judy Garland and I love
"Meet Me in St. Louis"!
You have a marvelous sense of humor 🤩!
Thanks so much! :)
An interesting side note to MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS : two of the top cast members are still alive. 1) Tootie = Margaret O'Brien. Miss O'Brien does regular speaking engagements still. 2) Lucille Ballard = June Lockhart. Known now as Mother from tv series LASSIE & LOST IN SPACE. June was part of the Lockhart acting family. Look for her with Bette Davis in ALL THIS AND HEAVEN, TOO.
Mother here is played by Mary Astor, recently departed from Warner Bros. Mary could actually play the piano in real life, hence the number of shots of her hands playing across the key board. Unfortunately as much as she loved this film, her stay at M-G-M led to alcoholism and a nervous collapse. Films = RED DUST, DODSWORTH, MALTESE FALCON, THE GREAT LIE, FIESTA, RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE, HUSH, HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE.
Marjorie Main was a respected character actress used to add grit and "reality" among the M-G-M froth. She began at Goldwyn. Films = STELLA DALLAS, DEAD END, THE WOMEN, THE HARVEY GIRLS, THE EGG AND I, THE LONG LONG TRAILER.
Grandpa is portrayed by Harry Davenport. See Doctor Meade in GONE WITH THE WIND. Also in ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO, see above.
Check out Margaret's last M-G-M film THE SECRET GARDEN.
Joan Carroll has a featured role in THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S with Bing Crosby, and Ingrid (cough, cough) Bergman.
Judy's voice is such like silk milk and honey
JUDY GARLAND IS THE G.O.A.T - Greatest performer of all time!
You making me laugh so hard! 😂
🙂🙂 Glad you enjoyed!
The extras on the DVD give context to Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and the fact that the end of WWII was in sight, "next year all our troubles will be out of sight/ miles away....
Really enjoyed your reaction!! Thanks!!😊😊😊😊😊
These aren’t really gender types from the 40’s, since this is supposed to take place in the early 1900’s (even though they hadn’t changed all that much by the. WWII will soon change that immensely).
Very true. I had missed that :)
I love this movie and am so happy you watched it and enjoyed it. Your reviews are adorable and so are you!
*this is taking a turn* 😂 loved this. Also HEY! It’s AnxietyAngel.
So glad you liked! And thanks for checking it out!
Yass yass yass went the trolleyyyyyy
Love this movie. It shows a time in America that is long gone…. a time for families that will never be again.
It just so happened that today in Facebook world, someone had posted a photo of Judy and Mary (her mother in the film) and mentioned a deleted scene. So, I took it upon myself to scour RUclips to see if I could find any deleted St. Louis scenes and low and behold, I stumbled across your video review and I just had to watch it.
Dude, you were cracking me up! I loved your little side comments - especially about Tootie's bad behavior however, you didn't say anything about her bashing down the snow people.
I enjoyed your review very much so I'm gonna spend some time checking out some of your other reviews. Plus...you're kinda easy on the eyes! :)
It’s one of my favorite movies ever. It’s based on a book that was a compilation of vignettes
Marjorie Maine played the nanny. She was one of the most famous MGM contract players for quite some time. Her Ma and Pa Kettle movies are some of the greatest comedies ever made.
I should check them out, she was great!
Regarding the Trolley Song: I hear that in the early part of the 20th century prostitutes rode the trolleys looking for johns to pick up. And here is sweet Judy Garland singing joyfully about falling for some strange man on a trolley! Little did she know what she was really singing about...
Interesting!
Great movie, and geez… you’re a handsome man by the way! Cheers mate!
Enjoyed ur reaction, ur very funny. I’m 56 and my sister is 50 and we’ve been saying “And I wanna wear Esther’s nightgown” in that silly affected voice to each other all our lives whenever we want anything 😛
Probably my favorite Christmas movie of all time. Definitely one of my top 3 favorite movies ever.
It was great! Can see why it's a classic!
"Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Make the yuletide gay. Spend it in a bath house somewhere far awayyyyy."
😆🤣😂
My favorite movie period. and i'm also from st louis . And no... we do NOT pronounce it st louie. Lol
Oh, man, the dance card is suuch a lovely, patriarchal, creepy old-timey thing. Look it up on Wiki. You will not be disappointed. You may be horrified, but not disappointed.
😆 will do. Seems like a very odd concept
It’s a gas lamp and the bottom that they are putting the stick to is the way you turned the gas up or down…
If you ever watched the old Lost in Space series, the actress who played Lucille in this movie played the mother on the series
A wonderful movie directed by Judy's husband or ex-husband or soon to be husband Vincent Minnelli. Her singing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is the quintessential Christmas song that always brings a little bit of a tear to my eye. Judy Garland is probably the greatest talent of all time in classic film and you can add Mickey Rooney to that list as well. They were best friends and there's never been a more talented duo of and that they worked at the same time for the same studio is classic. There will never be anybody else like Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.
Nice reaction. You remind me of Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
Thanks! He is one of my acting idols!
A dance card is one where the men would be allowed to sign up to dance with the girl of their choice but if the card was full…no luck
it's St Louis... NO long E at the end!
I was so confused lol
I wanted to give you a like for watching a classic musical, and did after you said you said you liked them. After watching and realizing you don't and would rather just put today's thoughts and actions over anything else I am resending the like. Yes, Trudy was a terrible little girl and deserved punishment, there was so much history on display that you ignored.
Ok, half way through your "reaction" which seems less a reaction than it does an opinion about a classic film that has little to do with Christmas, except for one very famous song and a few scenes and being rather cynical. You, in just a few minutes have pretty much tried, without success, to guess who everyone is and what they were going to do and if they were going to do it in song or without. Again, this is not a Xmas song but a film many people enjoy during the holidays due to ONE song and the scene attached to it. I have an idea....why not research the film, first....without spoiling it for yourself? Check out what St. Louis was like at the turn of the last century, who the other actors are, etc? Therefore, you'd have a base knowledge of what the film is, more or less, going to show you. You said "attempted murder" so many times which, to me, showed you were not in any way involved with the film and when it took place as all you could think about in regards to that scene, placing a straw stuffed dummy on the trolly tracks. I hope the next half of the film, you redeem yourself but in any case, if you're "reacting" to this film done in the early 40's or to "Schindler's List", you have a general background of what is happening when it is happening and why it is happening. Don't have to read the story, just do 10 minutes of research, first. Just a thought. I wish you well. Ok...finished it. Now, to share some information, the film was created to take place in 4 seasons and the colors changed for every season. They were not a "rich" family (though that is relative) but a middle class family where the father worked for a living, hardly aristocratic. Yes, he chose to move to better his prospects and those of the family and no, she, Judy/Esther, did not want to stay for the boy but because St. Louis was her home and he happened to be there and again, no, she didn't accept him after 3 encounters but that time spread was over nearly a year, 4 seasons, at Christmas. I believe you were watching a typical 40's musical that took place 40 pears prior with a 21st century mentality. Maybe try to envelop yourself into the filming and the time it was filmed as well as the time it took place before commenting on the housekeeper/aunt/grandmother, Marjorie Maine, one of the great character actresses of all time in a carer spanning from the 30's until the 60's. Like I said before, do a tiny bit of research about the film before beginning your reaction so it makes a little more sense. In 1900, for example, it was the job of the young women to find suitable husbands to wed.....though some women were beginning to go to university. I will watch another, not "Trading Places", though, as I've seen it too many times and have my own reaction to it. Please, try to appreciate a film for when it was made and how.. Cannot compare this musical to "West Side Story" or "Chicago"! Different eras and different stories and much different effects. Again, not a Xmas film and I wish you well. Nice try.
Have you ever seen a presentation on satanism in hollywood... so I was watching this and my first red flag was the scene when the little girl walked in the house with soaked translucent pajamas, singing about dancing the hooch koochey and seeing his pooppey woopsey.... with obvious repetitive scenes of her bare butt cheeks... ?
Then, Garland is turning out the lights in her house with a guy and walks in a room with that headless bent backwards figure in the background....
Blew my mind.
Then the bone structure of Garland tells me she was probably born a boy.
Idiotic comment.
@@jeffreguett1511 God rebuke you.