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Released
1944 · FILM

Meet Me in St. Louis

A bright‑eyed teenage girl in turn‑of‑the‑century St. Louis strives to keep her close‑knit family together as love, ambition and the excitement of the upcoming 1904 World’s Fair test their bonds and hopes.

“Glorious love story with music!”

Directed by
Vincente Minnelli
Written by
Irving Brecher, Fred F Finklehoffe
Runtime
114 min
ComedyDramaFamily

Synopsis

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle-class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Albert AkstShot by George J FolseyScored by Frederick Herbert

Box Office

1944 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$7.6M

Budget$1.7M
Worldwide gross$7.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

2019679 theaters
$629K($814K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Also known as

  • Die große Liebe nebenande
  • Die törichten Jungfrauende
  • Heimweh nach St. Louisde
  • Cita en San Luises
  • Le Chant du Missourifr
  • Incontriamoci a Saint Louisit

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