| Screenplay | Michael Kanin |
|---|---|
| Based on | Centennial Summer by Albert E. Idell |
| Starring | Jeanne Crain Cornel Wilde Linda Darnell |
| Director | Otto Preminger |
| Producer | Otto Preminger |
| Cinematography | Ernest Palmer |
| Editing | Harry Reynolds |
| Distributor | 20th Century Fox |
| Released | August 1946 |
| Runtime | 102 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,275,000 |
| Gross | $3 million (US rentals)[1][2] |
Centennial Summer is a 1946 American musical film directed by Otto Preminger.[3][4] Starring Jeanne Crain and Cornel Wilde, the film 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.
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" (music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Jack Yellen)
- "Up with the Lark" (music by Kern, lyrics by Leo Robin)
- "All Through the Day" (music by Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II)[5]
- "In Love in Vain" (by Kern and Robin)
- "Cinderella Sue" (by Kern and Yip Harburg)
- "Two Hearts Are Better Than One" (by Kern and Johnny Mercer) was cut from the film.[6]
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.
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- ^ Schulman, Lawrence (2015-03-22). "Jerome Kern's Centennial Summer". ARSC Journal. 46 (1): 168–171.
External links
- Centennial Summer at IMDb