The 1944 Technicolor musical , starring Judy Garland, is often identified as a Christmas movie because of the popularity of the song it introduced, , but it's really a film about an entire year in the life of the Smith family of St. Louis, from the summer of 1903 to the spring of 1904. The movie was conceived and filmed in the middle of World War II, and the people behind the film felt that audiences wanted to look back to gentler times—back to their Good Old Days.
