“My Blue Heaven” is a musical film featuring Dan Dailey and Betty Grable as radio stars who decide to adopt a baby after she suffers a miscarriage. This engrossing dramatic storyline keeps the audience engaged in between the wonderful song-and-dance segments. Director Henry Koster (“Harvey” 1950) kept the production on track and seamless for the 96 minute running time.
He was helped out by the excellent screenplay by Claude Binyon and Lamar Trotti and the musical direction by Alfred Newman. Harold Arlen wrote the music for the songs, and Ralph Blaine the lyrics. The theme song was penned by Walter Donaldson and George Whiting.
Co-stars with Dailey and Grable include David Wayne, Jane Wyatt, Una Merkel, Louise Beavers, Laura Pierpont, Phyllis Coates, Mae Marsh, and Mitzi Gaynor in her feature film debut. Elinor Donahue has a small part; a few years later she would co-star with Wyatt in the CBS sitcom “Father Knows Best” (1954-1960).
The watchable heavenly musical “My Blue Heaven,” filmed in Technicolor, was popular in theatrical release for producer Sol C. Seigel and 20th Century Fox. This was the third of four films that Betty Grable and Dan Dailey would star in together: “Mother Wore Tights” (1947), “When My Baby Smiles at Me” (1948), and “Call Me Mister” (1951).
My Blue Heaven (1950)
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“My Blue Heaven” is a musical film featuring Dan Dailey and Betty Grable as radio stars who decide to adopt a baby after she suffers a miscarriage. This engrossing dramatic storyline keeps the audience engaged in between the wonderful song-and-dance segments. Director Henry Koster (“Harvey” 1950) kept the production on track and seamless for the 96 minute running time.
He was helped out by the excellent screenplay by Claude Binyon and Lamar Trotti and the musical direction by Alfred Newman. Harold Arlen wrote the music for the songs, and Ralph Blaine the lyrics. The theme song was penned by Walter Donaldson and George Whiting.
Co-stars with Dailey and Grable include David Wayne, Jane Wyatt, Una Merkel, Louise Beavers, Laura Pierpont, Phyllis Coates, Mae Marsh, and Mitzi Gaynor in her feature film debut. Elinor Donahue has a small part; a few years later she would co-star with Wyatt in the CBS sitcom “Father Knows Best” (1954-1960).
The watchable heavenly musical “My Blue Heaven,” filmed in Technicolor, was popular in theatrical release for producer Sol C. Seigel and 20th Century Fox. This was the third of four films that Betty Grable and Dan Dailey would star in together: “Mother Wore Tights” (1947), “When My Baby Smiles at Me” (1948), and “Call Me Mister” (1951).