12/05/2009

25 Days of Christmas Music: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

If you've never seen Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), for shame. It's a little too slow for me at the beginning, but it has some great moments full of great ways to get a guy (turning down lamps and snuffing candles, amiright?) and culturally sensitive musical numbers (during a wild teen party, obvs). Anyway, at one point the well-intentioned, but totally out of touch father plans to move the family from St. Louis for a better paying job--and just when Judy Garland's character was getting together with the boy next door! But she puts on a brave face for her little sister and sings "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" the night before their moving date.

Here's the original version of the song with our love-stricken girl still dressed up for the dance:

3 comments:

  1. I love the film, but the song makes me cry. My beloved aunt passed six years ago on Thanksgiving and the line "...we all will be together, if the Fates allow..." I just sob, because we'll never be together again. That said, it's gorgeous and one of my favorites. Thanks for this.

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  2. I love the film, but the song makes me cry. My beloved aunt passed six years ago on Thanksgiving and the line "...we all will be together, if the Fates allow..." I just sob, because we'll never be together again. That said, it's gorgeous and one of my favorites. Thanks for this.

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  3. This is one of the movies I would watch over and over at my grandma's house when I was little...I always related to Margaret O'Brien except that I thought she was creepy and weird in wanting to bury her "dead" dolls...something that I would never do. I love it, though.

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