Meet Me in St. Louis Ending Scene - Judy Garland
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- In the year leading up to 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.
It is so sweet if only there was more movies like this.
I guess you don't watch movies much... lol
Watch the hallmark channel 😜
Actually back then there was🙃😏
"Grandpa they'll never tear it down will they?" Yup they did. Only one building standing now.
And may all who did it take a long walk off a short pier.
The buildings were intended to look ornate and extravagant but were in fact also intended for removal after the fair to restore Forest Park as a park. This was true of almost all major fairs and exhibitions. One element still left is the staircase from the World Fair Pavilion north of the Zoo and its stairway and lamps down to a fountain which when I was a kid turned different colors. That was in the 1940s and 1950s on torrid summer nights families camped out by the fountain. By the way, MGM sent a team to St. Louis to personally see the park and what was left from the fair. And the film debuted in St. Louis.
@@waynebrasler thank you for facts and personal stories!
Why!?
@@kylikuykendall5752 They were made out of plaster and wood not built to last. As with most expos from the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
I absolutely love the spring white dresses 0:23
I'm proud the family decided to stayed in their hometown (St Louis). Home is where the heart is.
Sally Benson wrote the original series of short stories, based on her own life, from which the movie was made. She was of great help to the producers in getting the wardrobe and period interiors just right. According to Ms. Benson, the family actually did move to New York and did not return for the world's fair. (There was some discussion, at one point, about a sequel called "Meet me in Manhattan", but it never developed.)
I wish movies were like this again
Hmm Ok Even though I was born in the 90’s, I wish I can travel to the 40’s.
@@manuelorozco7760 I wish I could travel back in time as well.
Michael Morris Awesome
@@michaelmorris1804 I wish you all could, you would have loved the 1930s and 1940s...it was a remarkable time, truly something out of joy, just don't go south, they were horridly harsh, some of them.
@@manuelorozco7760 me too
This is my city! I’m not crying you’re crying!!
This scene was so amazing it was a happy ending like every movie and meet me in St. Louis is my favourite movie there ever was in the olden days 1944 I will always watch these scenes
Music in movies back then was so beautiful
The little girl made reference to the Mud Flood Event .
Yes. The lies are exposed.
I don't understand why they would laugh after she said it was horrible and full of dead bodies.
There are tartarian buildings😅 everywhere in Saint louis 💙
@@danielreyes4360they are all over america and the entire world.
@@terranitup8608 She a child that his children are.
Really the biggest character in the movie is St.Louis itself --and a more moving, fun cinematic tribute to a city there never was!
In fact sant louis does exist, is a City in missouri
@@natyforero5403 they were saying that no tribute to a city has ever existed than was more fun and moving. I doubt they don’t know St. Louis is real
I love that beautiful instrumental reprise of "Meet Me in St. Louis"
I would have preferred a choral reprise
Mud Flood researchers: be aware there was an exhibit at the 1904 St. Louis worlds fair about the Galveston flood that recreated the disaster as a miniature diorama. Just to add context to what the girl said. The other dialogue in the scene is more telling regarding alternate history in my opinion.
This was literally the only reason why I watched this movie. Too much sing but I stayed for Judy.
That's why I'm here!
@P PA1 I think the film you mean is "In the good old summertime", which is also set in the 1900s. Liza appears at the very end, in the role of Judy's little daughter 😊
Went here to hear the comment about the mud flood. Those Fairs were certainly like education camps, all about the reset back then. Now it’s time for a new one. The great one?🤔
@@MoonlightDuchess The World’s Fair in Dubai, UAE just ended in March 2022 after a 6-month run….192 nations participated and it was a spectacular event. The next expo will be in Osaka, Japan in 2025.
54 years ago the world lost Judy Garland❤️❤️
R.I.P. Judy Garland
June 10th 1922 - June 22nd 1969
Today this movie is so funny and silly, so innocent and so naive, this film genre doesn't even exist anymore, it would be outrageous to make this type of film because it is old fashioned for todays standards...
And yet...the film has lost none of its charm.
I grew up in St. Louis in the 1940s and 1950s and believe the town was still then not far from the mark of "Meet Me In St. Louis." Twas a wonderful place for kids, very family oriented and yes there was a certain innocence about it. I was a kid on radio, hung around the one T.V. station in town, edited my summer camp newspaper, made a few records and acted. There were so many opportunities in St. Louis and there still are. I was kidnapped to Chicago in 1964 but I still come home and in fact do the alumni newspaper for my high school! And it's not just a little brochure; it is 11 x 17 and has been as large as 68 pages. St. Louisans keep their friendships! My dad was a motorman on the streetcar line which ran behind the Benson house on Kensington. The house is gone, the streetcar right-of-way is still there.
Well for people like you and I it's never too old fashioned I prefer movies and dressing styles like this, because you feel as though you were in their shoes and experiencing what I'd be like living in that time period or at least that's how I feel.
Beautiful memories
Nikola Mitrovic Hollywood is not the same but they can still produce movies that are a thing of beauty as this.
I have seen this movie more times than I count. Each time is like the first ! ❤
Same here. I was lucky to see it in a theater a couple of times.
1:23 HER VOICE IS SO ADORABLE
to the louisiana purchase exposition! so cute margaret
I love the dresses the girls wore to the Fair. But you would need a few sisters to help get dressed.
Yep because of the corset thing but I wished corsets never existed because it seems painful for those woman’s to wear back in the olden days
Mary Rudac Actually, apparently from what I’ve learned, properly fitted corsets do not hurt and aren’t uncomfortable and were like a bra fro girls back then since bras didn’t exist. A corset isn’t meant to hurt.
Sunny COOKIE Killer* ohh ok thanks for telling me so now I know that corset is basically bras
I've worn a corset before, they're not that bad, if they're too tight then you got a problem.
Nice dresses😍
Look at that house. Look at those clothes. That family must have been VERY rich.
I have pictures of my grand mother and her sisters in a dress like that. They were not rich. My grand mother had like five dresses in her closet in 1980🥰
The family, in real life, was certainly not rich but they were middle class. They did not live in a palatial home but in one side of a duplex on Kensington. The street is still there but, alas, the duplex is not. I've also read that the family did, indeed, move to New York and did NOT attend the fair.
Nope. Middle class. That's how it is when the govt. Doesn't take all your money.
@@PatroniFanyes!!! This was middle class!!!
2:00 Tootie’s talking about the Mud Flood event and everyone is laughing at her
She is talking about the exhibit on the Galveston Hurricane and Flood, which had just occurred in 1900. They're laughing because she was always exaggerating things. I don't know if you've seen the movie, but she does that all through it.
One of Garland‘s best performances! During the filming of Meet Me in St. Louis, Garland and Minnelli had an initial falling out, but they soon started a relationship and married on June 15, 1945.
Liza arrived in 1946!
Liza has claimed in interviews that it's obvious to her from the way that Vincente has framed Judy in the shots of this film that he was absolutely smitten with her. Pity it couldn't last.
i still maintain what st louis really needs to do is to rebuild the fair today but this time permanetly i have been trying to do this since 2002 but actual i restared it all back in 1986! rebuilding the fair today!
It would now cost billions to rebuild the St. Louis World’s Fair buildings in permanent form. World’s Fairs are still happening and the most recent one in Dubai, UAE closed in March 2022 after a 6-month run….it was participated in by 192 nations and was a spectacular event! The next expo will be in Osaka, Japan in 2025.
Literally in my top 3 faves ever. Along with Harvey Girls, and GWTW.
MGM knew what they were doing. A lost art today.
tootie is right they never should have torn it down!
Those wildly ornate buildings they have the old world's fares were made of plaster they were not met to last I've been to saint Louis and the zoo and the grounds where the fair was many times a few of the buildings were built to the last and they're still there But most of them are gone because like I said they were just plaster.They would have literally dissolved after a few years of rain!
@@beverlybarnes3122 yes, unfortunate as it is. Same going for 1893s, the greatest Columbian Exposition. My grandparents went In Chicago, they said it was a parallel to Heaven, something so impossible yet right in front and around them.
They could just go to Corona Park! Never torn down...
1:55 Pay Attention to what the little girl says
The music kind of blurs out what she says at the start.
@@BadwolfGamer *“Papa we saw the... turn flat, big waves came up and flooded the whole city, and when the water went back it was all muddy and horrible, full of dead bodies”*
@@CoercedJab Interesting that they should even add that.
Galveston flood.
Tootie is mentioning that they saw the Galveston Flood attraction on “The Pike” amusement street at the World’s Fair.
Happy 101th birthday Judy Garland❤️🎉
Happy 100th birthday Judy Garland🎉
I need more films like this one
I wish I could like this video multiple times
i esagre this is just what we really do need once again!
The wildly ornate buildings of the old world's fares were not meant to last. They were literally made of plaster. They would have dissolved after a few years of rain.I've been there at the zoo and the grounds of the fair many times. Some of the buildings were built to last .And their still there.
3:10
1893 Chicago Columbian exposition:
Am I a joke to you?🎡🎠🎠🎠
1:57 why is this line in the movie? Unusual thing for anyone to say especially a little girl. It doesn't seem to fit, in relation to the context of the movie
*“Papa we saw the... turn flat, big waves came up and flooded the whole city, and when the water went back it was all muddy and horrible, full of dead bodies”*
@@CoercedJab ".....we saw the Galveston flood....."
She is talking about seeing the Galveston Flood attraction on “The Pike” amusement street at the World’s Fair.
The character Tootie loves gruesome and horrible things. She’d be delighted at an exhibit like that
She's referring to the Mud Flood.
Thank you so much!!!
Must be really amazing to have a World’s Fair if it ever happened today. Even after the virus has passed. But will at least kill MGM to have a choral reprise of the title song?
The World’s Fair in Dubai, UAE just ended in March 2022 after a 6-month run. 192 nations participated and it was a spectacular event! The next expo will be in Osaka, Japan in 2025.
@@expoguy2 No way
It was more than a simple fair, it was Tartaria
@@ca294 I don’t know what it means
@@manuelorozco7760 The old world it was more than the oficial history says my friend
As a St. Louis native living here a century later after the fair, this makes me want to cry. St. Louis is crumbling to the ground
The demographics are to blame entirely.
@@Lava1964 excuse you
What happened in St Louis? Its so violent now
@@pinkiesue849 the industrial economy in America is now outsourced to child labor in China. Entry level factory jobs that created the middle class are no longer an option. The Great Depression put a strain on the city’s infrastructure, along with WWII, while blacks also migrated north to look for said factory jobs. There was a housing stock shortage for the boomers which resulted in veterans building and purchasing newer houses in the suburbs using VA loans. White flight became prevalent as we started to integrate black people. Entire neighborhoods or “slums” were demolished for highways. Saint Louis city is an “independent city”, meaning the city is its own county that’s completely separate from Saint Louis county, therefore, municipal tax dollars vanished along with the rich, white people who left. The city became fragmented, the population dropped, and poverty rates increased. When a city built for a million people loses over half the population, services aren’t getting enough funding. Residents feel cheated by the government. Everyone starts smoking crack in the 1990s. Desperate people do crazy things. We love our guns in Missouri
How did they get that shot of the World's Fair, with all the lit up buildings? Miniature?
Not sure about the mechanics of it, but this was filmed on a soundstage on the MGM lot in Los Angeles, so assuming the same way they made the emerald city in the wizard of oz
Combination of matte painting and miniatures. Common for big studio films of this era.
Musicals were the BIG tent pole films of the 30s-60s; akin to today's blockbuster superhero films. They had large budgets and could afford to build big sets, lavish costumes, and 'special' effects.
1:36 wow fantastic ❤
Was it because it was a World’s Fair and it was such a different time technologically that it was a big thing?
St. Louis’ main objective was to surpass all previous expositions, which it accomplished except for attendance….being closed on Sundays was its downfall in that regard.
World’s Fairs were where new products and inventions were introduced to the public from the first international expo in London 1851 until New York 1939-40. After WWII World’s Fairs changed with the advent of television and became more travel & tourism oriented. The latest expo in Dubai, UAE from October 2021 - March 2022 was participated in by 192 nations and was a spectacular event!
Now i see where Hallmark channel got their material from :)
I’ve seen some of their Xmas movies in recent years
"There's never been anything like it in the whole world." No! There was Chicago in 1893. The lighting system was an improvement on the ones in Omaha in 1898 and Buffalo 1901 . . . Hollywood never gets anything right. Buffalo was really quite spectacular. No, I'm not from Buffalo. This buffalo is from Omaha.
Buffalo’s lighting was quite spectacular, though not at all on the scale of the St. Louis World’s Fair….whose centerpiece was Art Hill, which included Festival Hall, the Colonnade of States, two Restaurant Pavilions and the three Cascades all surrounded by beautiful gardens and statuary. St. Louis’ main objective was to surpass all previous expositions, which it accomplished except for attendance….being closed on Sundays was its downfall in that regard.
@@expoguy2 You couldn't beat Festival Hall at night! I love seeing color photogravures from those Expos. Rinehart did some beauties of the Trans-Mississippi in 1898. I love this stuff!
Wasn't Prez McKinley shot dead at the Buffalo fair?
can someone upload the full movie plz.
Spectacular 💚☘️
What were they looking at? The lit up buildings? I know it's 1904 and the ending makes me feel happy for everyone but I'm still confused by their reactions to the lit up buildings. Is that why they were so inspired and proud? Something as big and new in St Louis of all places?
There were scores of fabulous pavilions set up for the exposition, and of course electric light on this scale would be new and rare. As with all of these expositions, the buildings were grand, but cheaply built, so torn down shortly after the end of the fair.
@Thomas S
@Thomas S
Mud Flood 👀
I wonder in what order does those nuns in 2:10 associated with?
Good question...
Can you explain more?
Why did the film show these nuns right at the end? They said nothing
I'm sure they just used actors in generic nuns attire.
That would be easier than contacting convents and interviewing actual nuns and bringing them in for a 30 second scene.
There's also the possibility of breaking some rule in the actors guild or something by not hiring union actors for the part so the nuns were hired actors.
Since the nuns do not speak in this film their names are not required to be listed in the credits so no further research is possible at this point on time.
Hello Springtime
Where are tootie’s roller skates?
god it's so sad what's happened there :,(
1:23 To The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
i sometimes think i wanted to live back in them days ,when just about everything was simple, no crimes ,no drugs no gangs, no shootings, ,just happy people back then living life
Getting reeducated and indoctrinated into a fake world view ???
I'll pass
And decorum and good manners. And common decency!!
Bro saint louis and East Saint louis have always been know for shootings and gang drug crime , is part of the history 😅you tube the history of East Saint louis makes you question everything
Go watch a James Cagney film, nothing change from today.
You could buy cocain and morphine over the counter back then. Drug and alcohol addiction were a significant issue. That's why the U.S. ended up with prohibition! Crime has ALWAYS been an issue. The violent crime rate has significantly _lowered_ since the beginning of the 20th century.
There were no antibiotics. People died of simple infections and what are now easily treated conditions, like diabetes or asthma, regularly. Polio, measles, TB, and syphilis ravished the population. Malnutrition was common. Infant mortality was high.
Your conception of an idealized past is just about as fantastical as one were people rode around on dragons.
The comments tell us that we are catching up slowly a, probably as planned .
I hear ya! I came here from another channel where this closing scene is being discussed.
Now I want to watch the entire movie and look for other clues they put in it.
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I wish I was in the world's fair i would wear a purple dress
but they tore it down so fast little judy lol.
Mud flood. Treaty of peace and friendship. Peace to the Moors and Moslems
2:22 An Arab 2:34 and more Arabs walking among the Americans :P
@Sunny N I commented it because it was rare present Arabs in old Western films.
The reason is they had different cultural exhibits at these type of world fairs. Like an African exhibit and an Arab one and indigenous tribes from the Amazon, etc.