Celebrating the holiday season this year, the AFI Catalog shines a spotlight on the Christmas classic MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944), which first played in theaters 80 years ago this month after its world premiere in late November 1944. Aside from being the film that famously connected Judy Garland with her future husband, director...

A bittersweet story told in seasonal vignettes, director Vincente Minnelli’s MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1945) stars the incomparable Judy Garland, who was named by AFI among the greatest screen legends of all time. The film had two songs included among AFI’s accounting of the art form’s greatest music – and was also named as...

MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS is ranked as one of the greatest movie musicals of all time – with “The Trolley Song” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” landing on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Songs list of the greatest movie songs in cinematic history.  Watch Mary-Louise Parker announce today’s film. Movie Trivia about MEET ME…