"The second best “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”: You can’t beat Judy Garland introducing the song in Meet Me in St Louis, but there’s an ironic reprise in Carl Foreman’s The Victors (1963)"
The firing squad scene in this movie truly is some good, bleak, black-humor cinema (although I recall they used the Sinatra recording of the song). BTW, am I the only one on earth who thinks Judy Garland was creepy and overrated?
No, I think that Garland in her later years looked rather zombie-like. She did a few songs very well but most of it struck me as over-sylized to the point of parody (especially in her later years).