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Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: In an early scene you can see feathers and down floating all over the set, left over from the upcoming winter scenes.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before "Boy Next Door," Esther keeps shifting positions when sitting on her front porch with Rose Smith.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The family sings "Meet Me In St.Louis" in 1903, but it wasn't published until 1904
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: There are no footprints in the snow in the winter scene, and there is not enough snow to have allowed the children to have made snowmen without leaving any trace of the snow being rolled into place.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: It is often incorrectly claimed that an off screen male voice calls out "Hiya, Judy" (referring to actress 'Judy Garland', not her character, Esther). The voice actually says "Hiya, Johnny". This refers to Tom Drake's character, John Truett, who has been trying to catch the trolley and apparently just made it. As soon as the line is delivered Esther looks expectantly screen right but we do not see John until the end of the trolley song sequence.
  
  
• Continuity: The piece of cake that Mr. Smith eats for Halloween dessert starts out flat and later grows into a wedge.
  
  
• Continuity: As Esther comes down the stairs to the party in the parlor (with John Truett as one of the guests), she passes by the grandfather clock on the landing. In the shot just before coming to the landing, the pendulum is swinging. In the next shot, Esther is on the landing, and the pendulum is stopped.
  
  
• Continuity: When Esther and Tootie perform "Under the Bamboo Tree", Tootie's bedroom slippers are pink at the beginning of the number...but change to blue in the "cake walk" finale.
  
  
• Continuity: When the cake is first cut, it is two layers. When they return and start eating around the piano, one of the pieces is three layers.
  
  
• Continuity: After Esther sits down during the corset scene, Rose's position changes from standing next to Esther's chair in one shot to kneeling on the chair in the next.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the Trolley Song the location of the Fair was mentioned as at Huntington Park. The actual location of the Worlds Fair was Forest Park.
  
  
• Continuity: The amount of tears on Tootie's face changes as she listens to Esther singing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".
  
  
• Errors in geography: Various scenes include views of mountains. However, St. Louis does not have any mountain ranges.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Although set at the turn of the century, and with very authentic sets and costumes, all of the women inexplicably have mid-'40s hairstyles.
  
  
• Continuity: When Esther and John are looking out over the fair at the end, John remarks that he liked it better when it was a swamp and it was just the two of them. They didn't actually meet until the night before the trolley trip to see the fairgrounds, already in progress.
  
  
• Continuity: In the supper scene when they are trying to rush the meal so that Rose can take her long distance call in private, Katie the maid serves Mr. Smith his soup. The bowl looks completely empty through the whole scene until Katie comes to pick up the bowl. At that point, it is full of brightly-colored soup.
  
  
• Continuity: The way Tootie holds her bag of flour changes.
  
  
• Continuity: When Warren bursts in, the distance the door is open changes.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: A boom mic shadow is visible on the carriage when the family is leaving to go to the fair.
  
  

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