During the 1940s and 1950s, musical films from MGM musicals regularly premiered. These works included: "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944), "Easter Parade" (1948), "On the Town" (1949), "An American in Paris" (1951), "Singin' in the Rain" (1952), "The Band Wagon" (1953), "High Society" (1956), and "Gigi" (1958). During this time, films outside the Arthur Freed unit at MGM included, "Holiday Inn" (1942), "White Christmas" (1954), and "Funny Face" (1957) as well as "Oklahoma!" (1955), "The King and I" (1956), "Carousel", and "South Pacific" (1958). These films of the era typically relied on the star power of such film stars as Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Ann Miller, Kathryn Grayson, and Howard Keel. They also relied on film directors such as Stanley Donen and Vincente Minnelli as well as songwriters Comden and Green, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and the Gershwin Brothers.