Centennial Summer

Centennial Summer
Directed byOtto Preminger
Screenplay byMichael Kanin
Based onCentennial Summer
by Albert E. Idell
Produced byOtto Preminger
StarringJeanne Crain
Cornel Wilde
Linda Darnell
CinematographyErnest Palmer
Edited byHarry Reynolds
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • August 1946 (1946-08)
Running time
102 minutes
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2,275,000
Box office$3 million (US rentals)[1][2]

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.

  1. ^ "60 Top Grossers of 1946", Variety 8 January 1947 p8
  2. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 221
  3. ^ "Centennial Summer". FilmAffinity. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  4. ^ "Centennial Summer". AFI. afi.com. Retrieved 24 December 2015.