
Out now on Blu-ray is Vincent Minnelli's Meet Me In St. Louis (Warner Brothers). This timeless Technicolor movie stars Judy Garland as a member of the Smith family and their fears of having to move from their home town when Mr. Smith gets a job in New York. The film follows their lives right up to the 1904 World's Fair. Filled with memorable musical numbers like "The Trolley Song" and "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas," the film also features a scene-stealing Margaret O'Brien as the impressionable baby of the family, Tootie (O'Brien won a special small Oscar in 1944 for her performance.). It's a gorgeous color postcard of a bygone era and looks lustrous on Blu-ray. The special features include an introduction by Liza Minnelli, audio commentary by Garland biographer John Fricke with Margaret O'Brien plus a rare TV pilot starring Shelley Fabares and, as a boy friend, a young Michael Blodgett (who memorably played studly Lance Rocke in Russ Meyer's Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls).
