My Blue Heaven

My Blue Heaven (1950)

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 they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.

Date of release
1950-09-15
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Drama, Music
Director
Henry Koster

Casting

Interesting facts

My Blue Heaven is a 1950 American drama musical film directed by Henry Koster and starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey. New songs by Harold Arlen and Ralph Blane.

Production

Claude Binyon was announced as director in September 1949 and Betty Lynn was cast during the early planning stages, but Lynn does not appear in the film.

Grable, who had reluctantly played roles that she did not like in the past, such as in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947), That Lady in Ermine (1948) and The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949), refused her assignment to My Blue Heaven, later saying: "I had never questioned any picture chosen for me before this, but when this one was proposed I said my first 'No.' I told them I wouldn't do it. They told me they would have to suspend me.

Twentieth Century-Fox relented, offering that Lamar Trotti, who had written Grable's earlier films Mother Wore Tights (1947) and When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948), would rewrite the script and that Henry Koster, who had recently directed Grable in Wabash Avenue (1950), would replace Binyon as director. Grable accepted, although she demanded several revisions to Trotti's screenplay.

My Blue Heaven was the third film in which Grable and Dailey has appeared together following Mother Wore Tights and When My Baby Smiles at Me. They later costarred in a fourth film, Call Me Mister (1951).

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