In the Good Old Summertime

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In the Good Old Summertime

Directed by	Robert Z. Leonard Buster Keaton (uncredited)
Produced by	Joe Pasternak
Written by	Miklos Laszlo Samson Raphaelson Albert Hackett Frances Goodrich Ivan Tors Buster Keaton (uncredited)
Starring	Judy Garland Van Johnson S.Z. Sakall Spring Byington Clinton Sundberg Buster Keaton Liza Minnelli
Music by	Fred Spielman George Evans Betti O'Dell George E. Stoll Jimmy Wakely
Distributed by	MGM
Release date(s)	July 29, 1949
Running time	102 min.
Language	English
Budget	$3,400,000
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In the Good Old Summertime is a 1949 musical film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. It starred Judy Garland, Van Johnson and S.Z. Sakall.

The film is a musical adaptation of the 1940 film, The Shop Around the Corner, but is set in the United States at the turn of the 20th century. Garland and Johnson play co-workers who dislike each other, while carrying on a secret pen-pal relationship, without realizing the identity of their pen-pals. It was filmed between October 1948 and January 1949. Garland's three-year-old daughter Liza Minnelli makes her film debut in the musical, walking alongside her mother and Van Johnson during the closing scene.

The film was made during the height of strain on the relationship between Garland and the MGM production company. In the Good Old Summertime was the second to last film that the two made together (with the final being Summer Stock). MGM terminated Garland's contract in September 1950.

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The film was remade in 1998, as You've Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

This is also the name of the song created by George Evans and Ren Shields in 1902 and included these lyrics sung in 3/4 time in tempo di valse:

There's a time in each year that we always hold dear,
Good old summertime
With the birds and the trees'es and the sweet scented breezes,
Good old summertime
When your day's work is over then you are in clover,
And life is one beautiful rhyme
No trouble annoying,
Each one is enjoying,
The good old summertime

In the good old summertime,
In the good old summertime
Strolling thro' the shady lanes with your baby mine
You hold her hand and she holds yours,
And that is a very good sign,
That she's your tootsey-wootsey in the good old summertime