The movie was adapted āĻĻā§āĻŦāĻžāĻ°āĻž Irving Brecher and āĻĢā§āĻ°ā§āĻĄ F. Finklehoffe from a series of short stories āĻĻā§āĻŦāĻžāĻ°āĻž Sally Benson, originally published in The New Yorker magazine under the āĻļāĻŋāĻ°ā§āĻ¨āĻžāĻŽ "5135 Kensington", and later in novel form as Meet Me in St. Louis