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

Fox tried to get James Cagney and Fred Astaire for the male lead before Dan Dailey was cast.

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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 Up the Down Staircase (1967)

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Soundtracks

It's Deductible
(uncredited)
Music by Harold Arlen
Lyrics by Ralph Blane
Sung by Betty Grable, Dan Dailey and chorus

User Reviews

Some lines seem risque at the time

Can't remember much about the movie, except my parents were a little disgusted at some of the dialogue. One that stands out: Grable and Dailey, a married couple, announced she was pregnant.

At a party (or something)where they announced the news, somebody said something like, "Well, we had better go because they probably want to be alone."

To which David Wayne, in whatever role he was playing, said, "Listen, if what these two kids said is true, they've been alone."

That was one pretty risque line for 1950. Would that dialogue today were as tame as that.

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