Centennial Summer

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 date	July 10, 1946 (1946-07-10)
Running time	102 minutes
Language	English
Box office	$3 million (US rentals)^[1]^[2]

Centennial Summer is a 1946 musical film directed by Otto Preminger.^[3]^[4] 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 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

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
In Love in Vain
Cinderella Sue

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.

External links

Centennial Summer on IMDb

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 (1953)
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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