who played the father in meet me in st louis
Leon Ames
title: Meet Me in St. Louis text: Meet Me in St. Louis Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 American Technicolor 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. The picture stars Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Leon Ames, Marjorie Main, June Lockhart, and Joan Carroll. The film was adapted by Irving Brecher title: Leon Ames text: suffering a stroke. He was 91. He was buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. In 1980, after 50 years in show business, Leon Ames was presented with the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Leon Ames Leon Ames (January 20, 1902 – October 12, 1993) was an American film and television actor. He is best remembered for playing father figures in such films as "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944) with Judy Garland as one of his daughters, "Little Women" (1949), "On Moonlight Bay" (1951), and "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" (1953). The title: Meet Me in St. Louis text: and Fred F. Finklehoffe from a series of short stories by Sally Benson, originally published in "The New Yorker" magazine under the title "5135 Kensington", and later in novel form as "Meet Me in St. Louis". The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, who met Garland on the set and later married her. It was the second-highest grossing picture of the year, only behind "Going My Way". In 1994, the film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Garland debuted the standards "The Trolley Song", "The title: Meet Me in St. Louis text: Boy Next Door", and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", all of which became hits after the film was released. Arthur Freed, the producer of the film, also wrote and performed one of the songs. The backdrop for "Meet Me in St. Louis" is St. Louis, Missouri in the year leading up to the 1904 World's Fair. It is summer 1903. The Smith family leads a comfortable upper-middle class life. Alonzo Smith (Leon Ames) and his wife Anna (Mary Astor) have four daughters: Rose (Lucille Bremer), Esther (Judy Garland), Agnes (Joan Carroll), and Tootie (Margaret O'Brien); and a son, Lon title: Meet Me in St. Louis text: late-19th century vintage carousel in this movie could be found at Bob-Lo Amusement Park in Amherstburg, Ontario until the park closed in September 1993. It was dismantled and sold to private collectors. Meet Me in St. Louis Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 American Technicolor 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