Blue Skies (1946)
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 ... See full summary »
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Martha - Mary Elizabeth's Nanny -
Mary Elizabeth Adams
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Directors:
Stuart Heisler , Mark SandrichWriters:
Arthur Sheekman (screenplay), Allan Scott (adaptation), Irving Berlin (based on an original idea by)All Cast & Crew
Awards
Nominated for 2 Oscars.
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Trivia
Gary Cooper's name was not in the original lyrics for the song "Puttin' on the Ritz." Irving Berlin rewrote the lyrics for 'Puttin' on the Ritz' for this film in 1946, to be about watching rich people on Park Avenue. But when he originally wrote it in 1929, it was about going up to Lennox Avenue in Harlem to watch black people dressed in ill-fitting, gaudy clothes, having a "jubilee." The 1946 lines "Dressed up like a million-dollar trouper, trying hard to look like Gary Cooper, Super dooper," were originally, in 1929, "That's where each and every Lulu Belle goes, every Thursday evening in her swell clothes, rubbin' elbows." Other original lyrics include the reference to Lennox Avenue (a famous main street in Harlem) and such racist lines as, "Spangled gowns upon a bevy of high browns from down the levy, all misfits, puttin' on the Ritz." Recordings exist, on You Tube for instance, of Astaire performing the original lyrics in 1930, and of Harry Richman's performance of the original song in a production number from the 1930 film, Puttin' on the Ritz (1930) .
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.
Goofs
At the beginning of the movie, which is just after World War I, the Crosby character tells the De Wolfe character to do his Frankenstein routine. The Frankenstein character he does is based on Boris Karloff's 1931 version which some ten years or so in the future. At that time in the movie Frankenstein was just a creature in Mary Shelly's book.
Soundtracks
Everybody StepWords and Music by Irving Berlin (1921)
Sung by Bing Crosby
Danced by chorus
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Plot Summary
Genres
Comedy | Musical | RomanceDetails
Release Date:
16 October 1946Language
English, French, Spanish
Country of Origin
USAFilming Locations
Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USABox Office
Budget:
$3,000,000 (estimated)
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