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“In a lovely note on his memories of seeing Meet Me in St. Louis as a four year old in 1951, critic David Ehrenstein writes, ‘I didn’t understand what was going on in the Halloween sequence. But then neither did (Margaret) O’Brien’s character, ‘Tootie’. She’d elected to ‘kill the Brokoffs (neighbors who lived down the street on the beautifully detailed set) by throwing flour at them as demanded by the other children. Walking away from the bonfire, wind and shadows whipping around her, she’s clearly terrified.’ But she succeeds, runs away from the Brokoff house and to her gang, the community she is now a part of, and is accorded the ultimate accolade of being the most horrible. ‘And indeed she is,’ remembers Ehrenstein,  ‘But that was in 1945. And that was in 1951. And now it’s 1998. And I’m dreaming of MGM’” ** excerpted from A Thought on a Moment in Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, USA, 1944)https://notesonfilm1.com/2014/01/10/a-thought-on-a-moment-in-meet-me-in-st-louis-vincente-minnelli-usa-1944/ It is now 2019 and MGM musicals in general, Meet Me in St. Louis in particular, and the Halloween sequence most precisely, are still the stuff that dreams are made of. . . . #halloween #halloween2019 #halloween1903 #halloween1944 #meetmeinstlouis #margaretobrien #tootie #mrbrokoff #DavidEhrenstein #classicfilm #halloweenclassic (at Epoca) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4TTlQoJzWp/?igshid=ahnug6h4zguy