Blue Skies (film)
- Bing Crosby: Johnny Adams
- Fred Astaire: Jed Potter
- Joan Caulfield: Mary O'Hara
- Olga San Juan: Nita Nova
- Mikhail Rasumny: François
- Frank Faylen: Mack
- Victoria Horne: Martha
- Karolyn Grimes: Mary Elizabeth Adams
The sky is blue is an American musical film directed by Stuart Heisler from the year 1946.
Action
Radio host Jed Potter told his listeners shortly after the end of World War II from a story that has not yet been completed, which has to do with a beautiful woman and is significantly influenced by Irving Berlin songs.
It is the year 1919: Jed is engaged in a revue as a dancer and loves the Chorus Girl Mary O'Hara. He wants to get her out of the Revue and start in a new revue in a better position. Both meet in a bar with Johnny Adams, who has previously occurred with Jed as vaudeville artists. Mary is immediately fascinated by Johnny and Jed tries in vain to win them for himself. He brings in a larger Revue Mary as the star out, but Mary is waiting for the premiere in vain for Johnny. He is a vagabond young man who in his past already had countless bars and they always gave up when they were going well. Elsewhere he built again and again to a new club and it all started from the beginning. Although Mary is looking a little resistant, but it can still imagine a future with Johnny. After the premiere she goes to him and makes him a marriage proposal. Johnny, who does not want to bind tightly, she rejects, and she breaks up with him. Jed makes new hopes.
Although Jed the next two years for Mary is there, she can not forget Johnny. When they meet again, both are in love as the first day and get married a short time later. Johnny wants to settle down and promises that its current nightclub the last one will be in his life, but he will soon break his word. It opens in a new state a new club and Mary follows him without complaint. You bring a girl into the world and Johnny makes a mental note to settle down for his family. One day, Mary receives a call from a buyer of the currently performed by Johnny nightclubs. She keeps Johnny from his breach of faith and presents him a choice: either his family or his neugeplanter nightclub. Johnny decides to nightclub and Mary leaves him.
Years pass and Mary's daughter grows up. Mary and Jed are engaged together in the show Heatwave, which eventually leads them to Chicago, where Johnny has just opened its current nightclub. A friend Mary is looking at Johnny, who for a long time now for the first time visited his daughter, while Mary is away from home. He learns of his daughter Mary that in the next week "Uncle Jed " is getting married. When Mary and Jed appear in Johnny's nightclub to invite him to the wedding, Johnny is gone. Mary is dismayed and Jed realizes that she still loves him. He gives Mary on now and get drunk on the day of the premiere. Although he should renounce a particularly heavy dance number at which he must dance without a backup on a hill on the edge, given his condition, he refuses to cut his program. In the finale he crashes the dance of the hill and the show needs to be canceled.
Jed says on the mic that he had danced since then never again and Mary had never seen again. Johnny, who sang during the war for GIs is with him in the studio and sing You Keep Coming Back Like a Song. Suddenly, Mary is on the studio door and she and Johnny fall into his arms and kiss. Even Jed hugs and all three leave the studio together.
Production
The sky is blue was filmed at Paramount Studios on July 16 to the end of September 1945. The film saw its premiere on October 17, 1946 in New York City. In Germany the film was first shown on 27 November 1983, the ZDF as part of a Fred Astaire number.
Originally Mark Sandrich was assigned as director of the film and was heavily involved in the preparations of the film, but died in March 1945 and was replaced by Stuart Heisler. Fred Astaire, who was replaced shortly after filming began, Paul Draper, wanted to withdraw from the film after the end of filming, then blue is the sky a rush of visitors recorded and the most successful Paramount movie of the year. In 1948 replaced Astaire but the injured Gene Kelly in Easter walk and turned in the following years more movies.
Music
In blue the sky is can be heard numerous songs by Irving Berlin. Was originally planned, 42 Berlin titles to gather in the film, 32 tracks of Berlin have been included at the end, including:
- A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody - sung by Fred Astaire
- I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now - sung by Bing Crosby
- You'd Be Surprised - sung by Olga San Juan
- All by Myself - sung by Bing Crosby and Betty Russell
- Serenade to an Old - Fashioned Girl - sung by The Guardsmen
- Puttin 'on the Ritz - sung by Fred Astaire
- I 'll See You in CUBA - sung by Bing Crosby, Olga San Juan
- A Couple of Song and Dance Men - sung by Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby
- You Keep Coming Back Like a Song - sung by Bing Crosby
- Blue Skies - sung by Bing Crosby
- The Little Things in Life - sung by Bing Crosby
- Not for All the Rice in China - sung by Bing Crosby
- Russian Lullaby - sung by Bing Crosby
- Everybody Step - sung by Bing Crosby
- How Deep Is the Ocean? - Sung by Bing Crosby
- ( Running Around in Circles) Getting Nowhere - sung by Bing Crosby
- Heatwave - sung by Fred Astaire, Olga San Juan
- Any Bonds Today? - Sung by Bing Crosby
- This Is the Army, Mister Jones - sung by Bing Crosby
- White Christmas - sung by Bing Crosby
- Always - sung by the choir
- Serenade for an Old - Fashioned Girl - sung by Betty Russell
Three of the songs were written specifically for the film: Running Around in Circles, You Keep Coming Back Like a Song and A Serenade to an Old - Fashioned Girl. After music, music it was the second time that Bing Crosby in a movie sang the song White Christmas.
Criticism
Variety wrote that all 32 tracks " are so cleverly arranged, and accompanied presented that the nostalgic music parade will not be bored. " Fred Astaire's appearance to Puttin 'on the Ritz was the outstanding moment of the film. The New York Times wrote about Astaire's Puttin 'on the Ritz in substance, that if this was Astaire's swan song from the movie, he adopted at least with one of the best dance performance of his career from the audience.
The filmdienst called blue the sky is a " revue film with brilliant dance scenes of Fred Astaire, who along with Bing Crosby appears here", but also noted the " cliche plot" to.
Awards
Irving Berlin was nominated in 1947 for You Keep Coming Back Like a Song for an Oscar for Best Song, Robert Emmett Dolan received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score.