"Late in the film, Garland's character, the 17-year-old Esther Smith, delivered a different, intimate number to cheer up her younger sister Tootie, who was distraught over the family's plans to relocate from St. Louis to New York."
"Have yourself a merry little Christmas; let your heart be light, Garland sang, as she played with the hair of her trembling, teary-eyed co-star, and as toy monkeys spun nearby."
"Some of the original lyrics had a gloomy tint in the midst of World War II. Have yourself a merry little Christmas, they read. It may be your last."
"Frank Sinatra, who recorded the song three times and gave it a cheerier postwar sheen in 1957, played a key role in popularizing it."
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