Centennial Summer - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Centennial summer 1946

Centennial Summer is a 1946 musical film directed by Otto Preminger. The musical, that stars Jeanne Crain and Cornel Wilde, is based on a novel by Albert E. Idell.

Plot

The movie is about two sisters growing up in Philadelphia in the 1870s. They both fall for a Frenchman who has to prepare the pavilion for the Centennial Exposition.

Cast

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Jeanne Crain as Julia Rogers (singing voice was dubbed by Louanne Hogan)

Cornel Wilde as Philippe Lascalles (singing voice was dubbed by Ben Gage)

Linda Darnell as Edith Rogers (singing voice was dubbed by Kay St. Germain Wells)

William Eythe as Ben Phelps

Walter Brennan as Jesse Rogers

Constance Bennett as Zenia Lascalles

Dorothy Gish as Mrs. Rogers

Barbara Whiting as Susanna Rogers

Larry Stevens as Richard Lewis Esq.

Kathleen Howard as Deborah

Buddy Swan as Dudley Rogers

Charles Dingle as J.P. Snodgrass

Avon Long as Specialty

Awards

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The movie was nominated twice at the 19th Academy Awards. One of those nominations was for Best Original Song for the song All Through the Day, written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. In Kern's case, the nomination was posthumous as he had died on 11 November 1945.