BackgroundMeet Me In St.Louis(1944) is a delightful, classic, nostalgic, poignant, and romanticized musical film - and one of the greatest musicals ever made.They are actors in the roles.] Speaking about his successful marriage, the balding husband talks directly into the camera with his white haired wife next to him:I was sitting with my friend Arthur Kornblum, in a restaurant, it was a Horn and Hardart Cafeteria, and this beautiful girl walked in - [he gestures toward his wife] - and I turned to Arthur and I said, "Arthur, you see that girl? I'm going to marry her.With this, he could have studied life on the other planets." The wounded alien was ordered by a Colonel to be immediately transported to Walter Reed Hospital for treatment." Heart-of-gold Gus advises his loner pal to lay off holdups for a while, due to recent step-ups in police efforts to curb crime on the boulevard: "Take my advice and knock off for a while.