<P> 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 Jr . ( Henry H. Daniels , Jr . ) . Esther , the second eldest daughter , is in love with the boy next door , John Truett ( Tom Drake ) , although he does not notice her at first . Rose is expecting a phone call in which she hopes to be proposed to by Warren Sheffield ( Robert Sully ) . </P>
<P> 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 Jr . ( Henry H. Daniels , Jr . ) . Esther , the second eldest daughter , is in love with the boy next door , John Truett ( Tom Drake ) , although he does not notice her at first . Rose is expecting a phone call in which she hopes to be proposed to by Warren Sheffield ( Robert Sully ) . </P>
who played the father in meet me in st louis
who played the father in meet me in st louis
Leon Ames
Leon Ames