Centennial Summer

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Centennial Summer

Directed by	Otto Preminger
Produced by	Otto Preminger
Written by	Michael Kanin
Starring	Jeanne Crain Cornel Wilde Linda Darnell
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	July 10, 1946
Language	English

Centennial Summer is a 1946 film directed by Otto Preminger. The musical, that stars Jeanne Crain and Cornel Wilde, is based on a novel by Albert E. Idell.

It was produced in response to the hugely successful MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis

The movie was nominated twice at the 1946 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.

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 - Julia Rogers
Cornel Wilde - Philippe Lascalles
Linda Darnell - Edith Rogers
William Eythe - Ben Phelps
Walter Brennan - Jesse Rogers
Constance Bennett - Zenia Lascalles
Dorothy Gish - Mrs. Rogers

External links

Centennial Summer at the Internet Movie Database

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)
The Fan (1949)
Whirlpool (1949)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
The 13th Letter (1951)
Angel Face (1952)
The Moon Is Blue (1953) / Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1954)
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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