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Wow, here were are 17 years later. I signed up for MovieChat because I am seeing Meet Me in St. Louis for the first time. It's charming and I love it, except...Margaret O'Brien. There were (and are and always have been) children who can sing and dance; Margaret O'Brien doesn't appear to have been one of them. My ears were bleeding from her off-key tone-deaf warbling, and she had no sense of rhythm in her "dance" number. Why was she cast? And the character of Tootie is grating, obnoxious, and just repellent. As to the Halloween sequence--while watching I kept wondering why it made the final cut. It took me completely out of the movie. It feels bolted on the side and doesn't flow in any way. It should have been excised. Would love to know the backstory on why Margaret O'Brien was cast--given her--not even average--but truly awful unmusical voice (I get it--she is cute-looking but cute kids who can act are/were a dime a dozen--that's irrelevant to my point) AND why that Halloween scene was included. I also wonder what contemporaneous audiences thought of Tootie's weird disturbed character.
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