Meet Me in St. Louis
by Sally Bensonliterary work· published 1942
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Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1942 novel by Sally Benson. It is the basis for the Academy Award-nominated musical film Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). The stories comprising the novel were originally written as eight vignettes in a series, 5135 Kensington, published by The New Yorker magazine from June 14, 1941 to May 23, 1942. Benson collected the eight and added four more to create a book-length portrait of the large Smith family living in a Kensington Avenue house in St. Louis at the start of the 20th century. The novel is sometimes referred to as "The Kensington Stories". Each chapter corresponds to a month during the twelve-month period from June 1903 to May 1904, when the St. Louis World's Fair opened.
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Meet Me in St. Louis was adapted into a 1944 film.
Meet Me in St. Louis1944 · film · 113 min · dir. Vincente Minnelli · IMDb ↗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.
