<P> Arthur Freed: "Meet Me in St. Louis is my personal favourite . I got along wonderfully with Judy, but the only time we were ever on the outs was when we did this film . She didn't want to do the picture . Even her mother came to me about it . We bumped into some trouble with some opinions--Eddie Mannix, the studio manager, thought the Halloween sequence was wrong, but it was left in . There was a song that Rodgers and Hammerstein had written, called Boys and Girls Like You and Me, that Judy did wonderfully, but it slowed up the picture and it was cut out . After the preview of the completed film, Judy came over to me and said, "Arthur remind me not to tell you what kind of pictures to make ." (It) was the biggest grosser Metro had up to that time, except for Gone With the Wind ." </P> <P> The film currently holds a 100% "Fresh" rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 30 critical reviews with an average score of 8.7 / 10 . </P> <P> The film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Color, Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture, and Best Music, Song (Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin for "The Trolley Song"). Margaret O'Brien received an Academy Juvenile Award for her work that year, in which she appeared in several movies along with Meet Me in St. Louis . </P> <P> In 1994, the film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry . </P>

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