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Title: Blue Skies (1946)
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| Bing Crosby | ... | Johnny Adams | |
| Fred Astaire | ... | Jed Potter | |
| Joan Caulfield | ... | Mary O'Hara | |
| Billy De Wolfe | ... | Tony | |
| Olga San Juan | ... | Nita Nova | |
| Mikhail Rasumny | ... | François | |
| Frank Faylen | ... | Mack | |
| Victoria Horne | ... | Martha - Mary Elizabeth's Nanny | |
| Karolyn Grimes | ... | Mary Elizabeth Adams | |
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Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can't stay committed to anything in life for very long. Written by Diana Hamilton <hamilton@gl.umbc.edu>
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Johnny Adams: Song and Dance Man, that's right.
Jed Potter: He didn't remember it then, how could he know it now?
Johnny Adams: Oh, get out, I bet I could do it right now, the whole thing.
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Words and Music by Irving Berlin (1945)
Sung by Bing Crosby
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After Fred Astaire announced his retirement after completing this film, New York's Paramount Theater generated a petition of 10,000 names to persuade him to come out of retirement. See more »Goofs
Bing and Fred's Song and Dance Man number was supposed to be one of those "you remember when" moments, however, Bing just happened to have snowflakes in his pocket. See more »Quotes
Jed Potter: Song and Dance Man.Johnny Adams: Song and Dance Man, that's right.
Jed Potter: He didn't remember it then, how could he know it now?
Johnny Adams: Oh, get out, I bet I could do it right now, the whole thing.
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(Running Around in Circles) Getting NowhereWords and Music by Irving Berlin (1945)
Sung by Bing Crosby
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16 October 1946 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$3,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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For the second and last collaboration of Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, and Irving Berlin, Bing and Fred needed all of their collective charm and talent to make this one work.
Bing and Fred play the same type roles in this as in Holiday Inn. Fred's the ambitious partner of an act who wants to get to the top of the show business ladder. Bing just wants to work at the trade and go through life with the least responsibility possible. Of course they fall for the same girl as in Holiday Inn and at Paramount in the 1940s who do you think winds up with the girl?
But the real star of this film is the music of Irving Berlin. This time Paramount gave Crosby and Astaire technicolor and it's put to good use with some great numbers. Astaire does two classic dance numbers with Putting on the Ritz and Heat Wave. Crosby gets two big budget numbers with Everybody Step and C-U-B-A, the latter nicely paired with Olga San Juan.
Previous reviewers found Joan Caulfield as the object of affections performance weak. Maybe so, but she's following a trend of Crosby leading ladies who are nice girls swept up by the Crosby song and charm. It wasn't until Jane Wyman did those two films with Bing that he got a leading lady with real spirit. Sometimes Bing didn't even get the girl.
The hit song here was You Keep Coming Back Like A Song which was a recurring theme. It got Oscar nominated, but lost to Judy Garland's train excursion On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe.
Billy DeWolfe also does a nice comic turn and we get his famous Mrs. Mergitroid act which he did in nightclubs.
Though the plot is thin who cares when you can see Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire at their very best.