I just don't get how it adds to the story or why it was so long. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. In fact, the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission includes a recipe for the cake on its website and calls it “one of St. Louis’ popular, quirky foods.” It is a sweet, wonderful dessert! The piece of cake that Mr. Smith eats for Halloween dessert starts out flat and later grows into a wedge. Unlike today, most of these pranks were tolerated. 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 (more commonly referred to as the World's Fair) in the spring of 1904. It's the Halloween sequence. There's one sequence, though, that I can't quite wrap my head around. - Duration: 3:32. Can't stop thinking about it. ... On Halloween night, Agnes and Tootie walk up to the children having the bonfire. When they ask who it is, Agnes incorrectly says, "It's me! Arthur Freed had been assembling a platoon of personnel, mostly from Broadway, to populate his little kingdom. The piece of cake that Mr. Smith eats for Halloween dessert starts out flat and later grows into a wedge. A CLOSEUP. Derek sent me a photo of how the Meet Me in St. Louis house looked in 1970, just before it was demolished: In 1970, MGM auctioned off most of its property, including St. Louis Street. St Louis Street, the MGM back lot where the streets were lined with Victorian homes built for Meet Me in St. Louis, is now sadly gone. The house, torn down just a few years ago, was a row house, though, not the sprawling Victorian mansion shown in the film. The rise in happiness can be partly attributed to Minnelli, Meet Me In St. Louis, Kay Thompson and the rest of the legendary "Freed Unit." As America moved into the 19th century, pranks were a popular tradition for Halloween; greasing doorknobs and jamming doorbells were some favorites. Everything that made the "Freed Unit" so special first burgeoned with Meet Me In St. Louis. The other day I saw Meet Me In St. Louis for the first time, and I loved it. JUDY GARLAND: 'THE CAKE WALK' WITH TOOTIE, SINGING 'UNDER THE BAMBOO TREE'. Episode 25: Meet Me in St. Louis for Some Gooey Butter Cake May 1, 2017 April 26, 2017 Andrea Ballard Fresh off a thrilling Preheated Help Desk call, we learn that listener Mary Beth (creator of the always reliable Mary Beth’s Pie Crust recipe ), freezes her pies in mason jars, so she always has a stack of single serving pies in her freezer. The custom appears in the vignette "October 1903" in 5153 Kensington more or … And, just as sweet and wonderful is the movie, Meet Me in St. Louis starring Judy Garland. The family sings "Meet Me In St. Louis" in 1903, but it wasn't published until 1904. One Halloween custom that appears in Meet Me in St. Louis that must seem bizarre to many today is throwing flour on individuals, those individuals then being said to have been "killed." Michele Bell 133,863 views When the cake is first cut, it is two layers. If you want the full "Mary" treatment for Meet Me in St. Louis you have to listen to the John "I Am Judy" Fricke commentary on the DVD version. Trivia: The address - 5135 Kensington Ave. - sung about by Judy Garland in "The Boy Next Door" was a real St. Louis address located near the World's Fair grounds. I didn't feel the ramifications of that moment moving forward.