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Centennial Summer
Centennial Summer
Directed by	Otto Preminger
Screenplay by	Michael Kanin
Based on	Centennial Summer ; by Albert E. Idell
Produced by	Otto Preminger
Starring	Jeanne Crain; Cornel Wilde; Linda Darnell
Cinematography	Ernest Palmer
Edited by	Harry Reynolds
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	August 1946;
Running time	102 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$2,275,000
Box office	$3 million (US rentals)

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.

Cast

Jeanne Crain as Julia Rogers (singing voice was dubbed by Louanne Hogan)
Cornel Wilde as Philippe Lascalles (singing voice was dubbed by Ben Gage)
Linda Darnell as Edith Rogers (singing voice was dubbed by Kay St. Germain Wells)
William Eythe as Ben Phelps
Walter Brennan as Jesse Rogers
Constance Bennett as Zenia Lascalles
Dorothy Gish as Mrs. Rogers
Barbara Whiting as Susanna Rogers
Larry Stevens as Richard Lewis Esq.
Kathleen Howard as Deborah
Buddy Swan as Dudley Rogers
Charles Dingle as J.P. Snodgrass
Avon Long as Specialty Dancer ("Cindarella Sue")
Gavin Gordon as Mr. Trowbridge, Railway president (uncredited)
Reginald Sheffield as President Ulysses S. Grant (uncredited)

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.