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.

They both fall for a Frenchman who has to prepare the pavilion for the Centennial Exposition.

In Kern's case, the nomination was posthumous, as he had died on 11 November 1945.