Otto Preminger directed this essentially lightweight material with his customary heavy hand, and the result was a fight between what was on the page and what was on the screen. MGM had made a fortune with MEET ME IN ST LOUIS, and Fox thought it could do the same with a musical based on
the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876. Fox was mistaken. Brennan and Gish live in Philadelphia with their two lovely daughters, Crain and Darnell. Brennan is sort of an early-day Lorenzo Jones (the radio inventor who, with his wife, Belle, charmed millions every afternoon) who invents clocks and
other things that he wants to sell to the railroad for which he works. There's not much els...
Released:
1946
Rated:
NR
Length:
104 mins