Blue Skies (1946)
Directed by
Stuart Heisler
Writing credits
Irving Berlin
Allan Scott (adaptation)
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Plot Summary: Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers...
User Rating: 6.3/10 (207 votes)
Complete credited cast:
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 (nurse)
Karolyn Grimes .... Mary Elizabeth
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sam Ash .... Businessman (scenes deleted)
Robert Benchley .... Businessman (scenes deleted)
Neal Dodd .... Minister (scenes deleted)
Al Hill .... Businessman (scenes deleted)
Eddie Laughton .... Businessman (scenes deleted)
John 'Skins' Miller .... Ed (scenes deleted)
Archie Twitchell .... Charlie (stage manager) (scenes deleted)
Runtime: 104 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix: Mono
Certification: Finland:K-16 / USA:Unrated
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. (more)
For the second and last collaboration of Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, and Irving Berlin, Bing needed all of his 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 dueted 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.
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