Centennial Summer
1946 film
- August 1946 (1946-08)
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Centennial Summer is a 1946 American musical film directed by Otto Preminger.[3][4] Starring Jeanne Crain and Cornel Wilde, the film is based on a novel by Albert E. Idell.
It was produced in response to the hugely successful 1944 MGM musical film Meet Me in St. Louis.
Plot
The movie is about two sisters growing up in Philadelphia in the 1870s. They both fall for a Frenchman who has to prepare the pavilion for the Centennial Exposition.
Cast
- Jeanne Crain as Julia Rogers (singing voice was dubbed by Louanne Hogan)
- Cornel Wilde as Philippe Lascalles (singing voice was dubbed by Ben Gage)
- Linda Darnell as Edith Rogers (singing voice was dubbed by Kay St. Germain Wells)
- William Eythe as Ben Phelps
- Walter Brennan as Jesse Rogers
- Constance Bennett as Zenia Lascalles
- Dorothy Gish as Mrs. Rogers
- Barbara Whiting as Susanna Rogers
- Larry Stevens as Richard Lewis Esq.
- Kathleen Howard as Deborah
- Buddy Swan as Dudley Rogers
- Charles Dingle as J.P. Snodgrass
- Avon Long as Specialty Dancer ("Cindarella Sue")
- Gavin Gordon as Mr. Trowbridge, Railway president (uncredited)
- Reginald Sheffield as President Ulysses S. Grant (uncredited)
Awards
The movie was nominated twice at the 19th Academy Awards. One of those nominations was for Best Original Song for the song All Through the Day, written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. In Kern's case, the nomination was posthumous, as he had died on 11 November 1945.
Songs
- "The Right Romance"
- "Up with the Lark"
- "All Through the Day"[5]
- "In Love in Vain"
- "Cinderella Sue"
- "Two Hearts Are Better Than One" was cut from the film.[6]
References
- ^ "60 Top Grossers of 1946", Variety 8 January 1947 p8
- ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 221
- ^ "Centennial Summer". FilmAffinity. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ "Centennial Summer". AFI. afi.com. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ Gilliland, John (197X). "Show 16" (audio). Pop Chronicles. University of North Texas Libraries.
- ^ Schulman, Lawrence (2015-03-22). "Jerome Kern's Centennial Summer". ARSC Journal. 46 (1): 168–171.
External links
- Centennial Summer at IMDb
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Films directed by Otto Preminger
- Die große Liebe (1931)
- Under Your Spell (1936)
- Danger – Love at Work (1937)
- Kidnapped (1938)
- Margin for Error (1943)
- In the Meantime, Darling (1944)
- Laura (1944)
- A Royal Scandal (1945)
- Fallen Angel (1945)
- Centennial Summer (1946)
- Forever Amber (1947)
- Daisy Kenyon (1947)
- That Lady in Ermine (1948) (uncredited)
- The Fan (1949)
- Whirlpool (1950)
- Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
- The 13th Letter (1951)
- Angel Face (1953)
- The Moon Is Blue (1953) / Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1953)
- River of No Return (1954)
- Carmen Jones (1954)
- The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
- The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
- Saint Joan (1957)
- Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
- Porgy and Bess (1959)
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- Exodus (1960)
- Advise & Consent (1962)
- The Cardinal (1963)
- In Harm's Way (1965)
- Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
- Hurry Sundown (1967)
- Skidoo (1968)
- Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)
- Such Good Friends (1971)
- Rosebud (1975)
- The Human Factor (1979)
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