My Blue Heaven (1950)

Betty Grable and Dan Dailey are a married song and dance team who cannot have children. The movie follows the travails as they try and adopt and keep the kids they adopt while performing on their TV show.

Director:

Henry Koster

Writers:

Claude Binyon, S.K. Lauren (story "Stork Don't Bring Babies")

Stars:

Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, David Wayne

1 nomination.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Betty Grable	...	Kitty Moran
Dan Dailey	...	Jack Moran
David Wayne	...	Walter Pringle
Jane Wyatt	...	Janet Pringle
Mitzi Gaynor	...	Gloria Adams
Una Merkel	...	Miss Irma Gilbert
Don Hicks	...	Young Man
Louise Beavers	...	Selma
Laura Pierpont	...	Mrs. Johnston
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Harry Seymour	...	Undetermined Minor Role (scenes deleted)
Robert R. Stephenson	...	Undetermined Minor Role (scenes deleted)

Storyline

Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby, finally acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner. Complications follow amid a series of musical numbers.

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Plot Keywords:

halloween costume | halloween song | doctor's office | doctor | radio show | 

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Genres:

Drama | Musical

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Certificate:

Approved

Did You Know?

Trivia

Feature film debut of Mitzi Gaynor - who had only been in a previous film short billed as 'Mitzi Gerber.'

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Goofs

During the Cosmo Cosmetics number, all of the monitors in the television control room are in color. Expensive color sets would never have been used in a real TV control room, and in fact weren't even available in 1950.

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Connections

Referenced in Film Geek (2005)

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Soundtracks

Live Hard, Work Hard, Love Hard
(uncredited)
Music by Harold Arlen
Lyrics by Ralph Blane
Sung and danced by Dan Dailey, Mitzi Gaynor and Betty Grable

User Reviews

Like The Song Says, "And Baby Makes Three"

My Blue Heaven which starred Dan Dailey and Betty Grable are a happy show business couple who started in vaudeville and now are going into that happy new medium television. This was one of the first films that dealt with the phenomenon of television. As Dailey says during the course of the film, right now only Milton Berle and Howdy Doody are in it, the field is wide open.

Dailey and Grable are a happy couple, but they'd even be happier with a child, in fact Betty loses a baby almost at the beginning of the film. Friends and sponsors, David Wayne and Jane Wyatt suggest adopting because three of their six are adopted. The rest of the film is a lighter treatment of the themes from A Penny Serenade. Things go a lot happier for Dailey and Grable than they did for Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.

Because they are a musical performing couple Grable and Dailey get a whole lot of numbers and there's even a few tossed in for Mitzi Gaynor who was doing her second film. What a pity she came along as late as she did, she would have been a Grade A star in the Thirties. Gaynor plays an eager young understudy who'd just as soon Grable stay out on maternity leave.

Other than the title song, there's nothing terribly memorable in the score that Harold Arlen and Ralph Blane wrote for My Blue Heaven. Of course very few songs are as memorable. Until Bing Crosby introduced White Christmas in Holiday Inn, My Blue Heaven was the largest selling song in history with Gene Austin's version topping the charts.

My Blue Heaven is a pleasant enough diversion. Grable and Dailey work well as a team together, you'll enjoy them.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 December 1950 (Mexico)

Also Known As:

My Blue Heaven

Filming Locations:

20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1