Meet Me in St. Louis - Honoring Composer Ralph Blane
Join us for a special screening of Meet Me in St. Louis honoring composer Ralph Blane, an Academy Award nominee and Circle Cinema Walk of Fame recipient.
TIME & LOCATION
Jul 20, 2026, 4:30 PM
4:30pm | Screen 3, Circle Cinema
ABOUT
Feature Film • Musical • 1hr 53min • English • Screen 3
$12 members, $15 non-members
Celebrate Broken Arrow's own Ralph Blane, 2026 Circle Cinema Walk of Fame inductee, with the film that made him a Hollywood legend! Blane co-wrote the songs for this beloved 1944 MGM musical, including "The Trolley Song," which earned him an Oscar nomination, and the holiday classic "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
About The Film
Set in the year leading up to the 1904 World's Fair, Meet Me in St. Louis follows the Smith family through four seasons of romance, mischief, and change in their turn-of-the-century St. Louis home. Judy Garland stars as Esther, who falls for the boy next door just as her father announces the family may have to leave it all behind for New York. Directed by Vincente Minnelli, it's a Technicolor charmer packed with warmth, humor, and some of the most enduring songs in movie history.
About Ralph Blane
Ralph Blane (1914–1995) — Born Ralph Uriah Hunsecker in Broken Arrow, Blane grew up in the Tulsa area and attended Tulsa Central High School before studying at Northwestern University and then music in New York, where he took the name Ralph Blane, reportedly because it fit better on a theater marquee. Working as a singer and vocal arranger, he began a fifty-year songwriting partnership with Hugh Martin, and over the years the two collaborated with Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers. Their most enduring work was the score for the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland, which introduced the title song and the holiday standard "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." Blane earned two Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song, both written with Martin: "The Trolley Song," from Meet Me in St. Louis, and "Pass That Peace Pipe," from Good News (1947). Blane's later credits ranged from the Broadway hit Sugar Babies (1979) to a 1989 stage adaptation of Meet Me in St. Louis that earned four Tony nominations, and he contributed lyrics to Home Alone in 1990. He retired to his hometown of Broken Arrow, where he died in 1995; at the time, ASCAP listed more than five hundred songs in his name.