Meet Me in St. Louis Quotes

Meet Me in St. Louis is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . Meet Me in St. Louis completed its run in 1970.

It features Arthur Freed as producer, George Stoll in charge of musical score, and George Folsey (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

Meet Me in St. Louis is distributed by Loews Cineplex Entertainment.

The cast includes: Judy Garland as Esther Smith, Lucille Bremer as Rose Smith, Mary Astor as Mrs. Anna Smith, Margaret O'Brien as 'Tootie' Smith, Leon Ames as Mr. Alonzo Smith, Joan Carroll as Agnes Smith, Harry Davenport as Grandpa, Tom Drake as John Truett, Henry H. Daniels Jr. as Alonzo 'Lon' Smith Jr., Robert Sully as Warren Sheffield, Hugh Marlowe as Col. Darly, Leon Ames as Mr Alonzo Smith, and Darryl Hickman as Johnny Tevis.

Meet Me in St. Louis Quotes

Mary Astor as Mrs. Anna Smith

• (Mary Astor) "Sure, don't mind what happens to your family. At a time like this you think about the chickens."

• (Katie the Maid) "Would it start a minor revolution in this household if dinner was served an hour early today?"
• (Mary Astor) "Mr. Smith hates to eat early on a hot day."
• (Katie the Maid) "Eating early on a hot day gives you more time to digest your food before retiring. Besides, I'm due at my sister's at seven o'clock on a family matter."
• (Mary Astor) "Is there something wrong with your sister?"
• (Katie the Maid) "She's having trouble with her husband. Him bein' a man."
• (Mary Astor) "Well, eating early is all right with me, but you'll have to explain it to Mr. Smith."
• (Katie the Maid) "Oh, he won't mind, seein' as how tonight's corn beef night."

• (Mary Astor) "Rose, Esther, the water's hot. We're eating early tonight, so if you're going to wash your hair, you better do it now."
• (Lucille Bremer) "All right, Mama. Es, why are we eating early?"
• (Judy Garland) "Well, you certainly don't want the whole family sitting there drinking in every word while a man proposes to you long-distance."
• (Lucille Bremer) "Proposes? I don't see why you think Warren's going to propose to me."
• (Judy Garland) "Well, why else would he be calling you long-distance? Do you know what it costs?"
• (Lucille Bremer) "I'm not even sure I'll be in. My dear, when you get to be my age, you'll find there are more important things in life than boys."

Margaret O'Brien as 'Tootie' Smith

• (Margaret O'Brien) "Poor Margeretha, I've never seen her look so pale."
• (Mr. Neely the Iceman) "The sun oughta do her some good."
• (Margaret O'Brien) "I suspect she won't live through the night, she has four fatal diseases."
• (Mr. Neely the Iceman) "And it only takes one."
• (Margaret O'Brien) "But she's going to have a beautiful funeral, in a cigar box my Papa gave me, all wrapped up in silver paper."
• (Mr. Neely the Iceman) "That's the way to go, if you have to go."
• (Margaret O'Brien) "Oh, she has to go."

• (Margaret O'Brien) "We'll fix him fine. It'll serve him right for poisoning cats -- He buys meat and then he buys poison and then he puts them all together."
• (Joan Carroll) "And then he burns the cats at midnight in his furnace. You could smell the smoke --"
• (Margaret O'Brien) "-- and Mr. Braukoff was beating his wife with a red hot poker -- and Mr. Braukoff has empty whiskey bottles in his cellar."

• (Margaret O'Brien) "And I'm taking all my dolls, even the dead ones. I'm taking everything."
• (Judy Garland) "Of course you are. I'll help you pack them myself. You won't have to leave anything behind. Except your snow people, of course. We'd look pretty silly trying to get them on the train, wouldn't we?"

• (Margaret O'Brien) "Now I remember where I left my other skate."

• (Mr. Neely the Iceman) "Well, I got a cousin who spells it the same way, and we call him "Louie"."
• (Margaret O'Brien) "He's isn't a city though, is he?"
• (Mr. Neely the Iceman) "No --"
• (Margaret O'Brien) "Is he a saint?"
• (Mr. Neely the Iceman) "Uh, no."
• (Margaret O'Brien) "Then there's no comparison."

• (Margaret O'Brien) "I wanna sleep right here."
• (Mary Astor) "Of course you will, darling."
• (Margaret O'Brien) "And I wanna wear Esther's nightgown."
• (Lucille Bremer) "I'll get it for you right now."
• (Mary Astor) "I hate to think about what your papa's going to do when he hears about all this. He may strike that Truett boy."
• (Lucille Bremer) "I'll do that, Mama."
• (Mary Astor) "All right. And I'll get you some ice cream and cake, Tootie."
• (Margaret O'Brien) "Feed a cold, starve a fever. I was drunk last night, dear Mother, I was drunk the night before. But if you'll forgive me, Mother, I'll never get drunk anymore."
• (Judy Garland) "I got him. He didn't even have a chance to scratch me."
• (Lucille Bremer) "Why, your dress is torn."
• (Judy Garland) "Oh, that must've happened while he was trying to hold me off. I bit him."
• (Margaret O'Brien) "I bit him, too."

• (Margaret O'Brien) "It'll take me at least a week to dig up all my dolls in the cemetery."

• (Margaret O'Brien) "Here comes the invalid. I have to have two kinds of ice cream. I'm recuperating."
• (Mary Astor) "If I ever catch you fibbing again like you did about John Truett, I'll give you something to recuperate about."

• (Margaret O'Brien) "Hello, Papa, I buried Maude Rockefeller today, and you missed all the fun."
• (Leon Ames) "Oh, I wouldn't say that. I've had a pretty full day. Tootie, remind me to spank you right after dinner."
• (Margaret O'Brien) "Yes, Papa."
• (Leon Ames) "Lord, we thank thee for the bountiful blessing we are about to receive. Amen."
• (Margaret O'Brien) "Agnes, if I forget to remind Papa, you remind me."
• (Joan Carroll) "All right."

Joan Carroll as Agnes Smith

• (Joan Carroll) "I can't get hungry till it gets dark."
• (Katie the Maid) "Dinner's at five-thirty. You can eat blind-folded."
• (Mary Astor) "We have to be out of the dining room by six-thirty. Warren Sheffield is telephoning Rose from New York. And Rose, if I were you, I wouldn't committ myself one way or another. After all --"
• (Lucille Bremer) "Mama, for goodness sakes."
• (Mary Astor) "After all, we know very little about him. Why, we haven't even met his folks."
• (Lucille Bremer) "It seems to me that one little phone call is causing an awful lot of excitement in this family."
• (Mary Astor) "Besides, you're entirely too young and I don't think your father will allow it."
• (Katie the Maid) "Mrs. Smith, if I'm going to keep lying to your daughters, I'll have to ask for more money."
• (Mary Astor) "Now, remember, not a word of this to your papa. You know how he plagues the girls about their beaus."
• (Joan Carroll) "Everybody knows but Papa?"
• (Harry Davenport) "Your papa's not supposed to know. It's enough we're letting him work hard every day to support the whole flock of us. He can't have everything."

• (Joan Carroll) "Katie, where's my cat?"
• (Katie the Maid) "I don't know -- a little while ago, she got in my way and I kicked her down the cellar steps. I could hear her spine hitting on every step."
• (Joan Carroll) "Oh, if you killed her, I'll kill you. I'll stab you to death in your sleep, then I'll tie your body to two wild horses until you're pulled apart."
• (Katie the Maid) "Oh, won't that be terrible, now? There's your cat."

• (Joan Carroll) "Rose, it's six-thirty and Warren hasn't called yet."
• (Margaret O'Brien) "Maybe he found another girl."
• (Mary Astor) "Quiet, you two."
• (Lucille Bremer) "Mama, I assure you that I'm not the slightest bit sensitive about Warren Sheffield."
• (Harry Davenport) "The queen has spoken."
• (Henry H. Daniels Jr.) "I suppose Warren's too young, too. Every fellow I introduce her to is too young."
• (Mary Astor) "Now, listen. Your papa will be down in a minute, and if we all eat quickly, we may still get out of here before the call comes through."
• (Judy Garland) "Warren is twenty-one and I think that's a perfect age."
• (Lucille Bremer) "He's practically a child."
• (Mary Astor) "Your father was twenty when we were married."
• (Harry Davenport) "We gave him the bachelor dinner the night before. He almost missed the wedding."

• (Katie the Maid) "Mrs. Smith, who are these boys?"
• (Joan Carroll) "It's me, Katie, it's Agnes."
• (Katie the Maid) "Saints preserve us, it is. You had me fooled."
• (Margaret O'Brien) "Mama, we fooled her."
• (Mary Astor) "Well, if you can fool our Katie, you can fool anyone."
• (Katie the Maid) "Agnes, I thought you were a drunken ghost."
• (Joan Carroll) "But I am. Tootie's a horrible ghost, and I'm a terrible drunken ghost."
• (Margaret O'Brien) "She was murdered in a den of thieves, and I died of a broken heart. I've never even been buried because everyone's scared to come near me."

Tom Drake as John Truett

• (Tom Drake) "You've got a mighty strong grip for a girl."

• (Tom Drake) "Wow, that's nice perfume."
• (Judy Garland) "Do you like it? It's Essence of Violet. I only take it out on special occasions"
• (Tom Drake) "Exactly the kind my grandmother wears."

• (Tom Drake) "This is a fine going away present I'm giving you for Christmas. I'll bet you really hate me."
• (Judy Garland) "Oh, no, John, I don't hate you. I just hate basketball."

• (Tom Drake) "Gosh, Miss Esther, I hope I'm not too presumptuous, but you don't need any beauty sleep."
• (Judy Garland) "What a nice compliment."

Harry Davenport as Grandpa

• (Harry Davenport) "Excuse me, young man, but in the great country of China, when a stranger admires one of your possessions, it's common courtesy to offer it to him."
• (Unnamed) "That's very interesting --"
• (Harry Davenport) "Well I spent many years in China, and if you want me to feel thoroughly at home, you might offer me your partner."
• (Unnamed) "Huh?"
• (Harry Davenport) "Spoken like a true gentleman."

• (Harry Davenport) "You'll all be safe with me; I've got twelve guns in my room."

• (Harry Davenport) "Ohhhhhhh."
• (Katie the Maid) "What was that?"
• (Harry Davenport) "Here are your sacks of flour."
• (Harry Davenport) "You couldn't get me out on a night like this for a million dollars."
• (Joan Carroll) "Did anyone here a noise just now?"
• (Harry Davenport) "Did it sound like this?"
• (Harry Davenport) "Ohhhhhh?"
• (Joan Carroll) "Uh-huh."
• (Harry Davenport) "I didn't hear it."
• (Harry Davenport) "If you wet the flour before you throw it, it makes it harder for the victim to remove it."

• (Harry Davenport) "That doctor must be walking."
• (Lucille Bremer) "Should I call Papa at his office?"
• (Mary Astor) "Oh, heavens no, don't call your father. What could he do? There, there, Tootie, darling."
• (Margaret O'Brien) "He tried to kill me --"
• (Mary Astor) "Now tell Mommy what happened."
• (Judy Garland) "It was the streetcar. I think it hit her."
• (Lucille Bremer) "It must have knocked her onto the sidewalk, didn't it, Tootie?"
• (Margaret O'Brien) "No, it wasn't a streetcar. It was John Truett. He tried to kill me."
• (Mary Astor) "John Truett hit you?"
• (Margaret O'Brien) "He tried to kill me, and when I screamed, he ran away."
• (Judy Garland) "Tootie Smith, that's a monstrous falsehood. John Truett would never hit a girl, least of all my sister."

Judy Garland as Esther Smith

• (Judy Garland) "John Truett. I've come here to ask you something -- What do you mean hitting a five-year-old child? -- The next time you want to hit somebody, pick on somebody your own size. If there's anything I hate, loathe, despise, and abominate, it's a bully."

• (Judy Garland) "Meeting him across the lawn for the first time would be so ordinary. I don't want to be just introduced to him. I want it to be something strange and romantic and something I'll always remember."

• (Judy Garland) "I'm going to let John Truett kiss me tonight."
• (Lucille Bremer) "Esther Smith."
• (Judy Garland) "Well, if we're going to get married, I may as well start it."
• (Lucille Bremer) "Nice girls don't let men kiss them until after they're engaged. Men don't want the bloom rubbed off."
• (Judy Garland) "Personally, I think I have too much bloom. Maybe that's the trouble with me."

• (Judy Garland) "It's our last dance in St. Louis. I feel like I'm going to cry."

• (Judy Garland) "Have yourself a merry little Christmas, let your heart be light. / Next year all our troubles will be out of sight. / Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the yule time gay / Next year all our troubles will be miles away. / Once again as in olden days, happy golden days of yore / Faithful friends who are dear to us, will be near to us once more. / Someday soon we all will be together, if the fates allow / Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow. / So have yourself a merry little Christmas now."

• (Judy Garland) "Meet me in St. Louie, Louie, meet me at --"
• (Leon Ames) "For heaven's sake, stop that screeching."
• (Lucille Bremer) "We're sorry, Papa."
• (Leon Ames) "The fair won't open for seven months, and that's all anybody ever sings about or talks about. I wish they would all meet at the fair and leave me alone."

• (Judy Garland) "I can't believe it. Right here where we live; right here in St. Louis."

Lucille Bremer as Rose Smith

• (Lucille Bremer) "Agnes Smith, you're nothing less than a murderer. You could have killed dozens of people."
• (Joan Carroll) "Oh, Rose, you're so stuck up."

• (Lucille Bremer) "Oh, Es, isn't he simply enchanting? And so mature."
• (Judy Garland) "Well, how did it happen? Where did you meet?"
• (Lucille Bremer) "I was coming out of the shop and he was coming in. We bumped into each other."
• (Judy Garland) "Accidentally?"
• (Lucille Bremer) "Almost."

• (Lucille Bremer) "What did you say, Warren?"
• (Robert Sully) "Nothing. I was waiting for you to talk."
• (Lucille Bremer) "Oh. Well, did you want to discuss anything in particular?"
• (Robert Sully) "What?"
• (Lucille Bremer) "I said, was there anything special you wanted to ask me?"
• (Robert Sully) "I can't hear you, Rose."
• (Lucille Bremer) "That's funny. I can hear you plainly."
• (Robert Sully) "Isn't this great? Here I am in New York and there you are in St. Louis and it's just like you're in the next room."
• (Lucille Bremer) "What was that?"
• (Robert Sully) "I said, it's just like you're in the next room. Uh, Rose, I hope you don't misunderstand what I'm about to say."
• (Lucille Bremer) "Yes?"
• (Robert Sully) "I don't think you better mention this call to anyone."

Robert Sully as Warren Sheffield

• (Robert Sully) "Isn't this great? Here I am in New York, and there you are in St. Louis, and it's just like you're in the next room."
• (Lucille Bremer) "What was that?"
• (Robert Sully) "I said, IT'S JUST LIKE YOU'RE IN THE NEXT ROOM."
• (Lucille Bremer) "Oh."

• (Robert Sully) "Wait, Rose. We still have -- 36 more seconds."
• (Lucille Bremer) "I have an engagement. I think I can hear Joe's voice, now."
• (Harry Davenport) "Good evening, Joe."

• (Robert Sully) "Rose Smith, we can't go on like this any longer. I've positively decided we're going to get married at the earliest opportunity and I don't want to hear any arguments. That's final. I love you. Merry Christmas."
• (Lucille Bremer) "Merry Christmas"
• (Leon Ames) "Anna, who is that boy?"
• (Mary Astor) "Now Lonny he's a very fine young man. We'll talk about it later."
• (Harry Davenport) "That young man is so excited he's liable to leave on his honeymoon without Rose."

Darryl Hickman as Johnny Tevis

• (Darryl Hickman) "Tootie, if you don't hit Mr. Braukoff in the face with flour and say "I hate you", the Banshee will haunt you forever."

Leon Ames as Mr. Alonzo Smith

• (Leon Ames) "Either I've lost some soup, or I've found a spoon."

• (Leon Ames) "Ah, corn beef and cabbage. Katie, I could smell that cabbage when I got off the trolley."
• (Katie the Maid) "Cabbage has a cabbage smell."

• (Katie the Maid) "Anybody want dessert?"
• (Leon Ames) "Dessert? What happened to dinner?"
• (Katie the Maid) "I didn't think anybody could eat meat on a hot day like this."

• (Leon Ames) "Anna, I'm curious, just when was I voted out of this family?"

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