My Blue Heaven
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Movie Reviews of My Blue Heaven
Movie Review: Hurray!!! Finally something good on DVD!
Summary: 5 Stars
This film has always been a favorite of mine. I was lucky enough to see it and tape it from one of the cable channels a few months ago. I am surprised it has taken so long to release a 'collectors' set of Betty Grable films. What a fabulous catalog of films to choose from! The films selected to be in this set are all great, but my favorites have always been the films Betty made with Dan Dailey. They made an wonderful team, whether dancing or just acting together. I am so thrilled to finally be able to get at least some of Betty's films on DVD as many were never even available on VHS. I can only hope that this set is just the first in a series-Movie Review: MY BLUE HEAVEN BETTY GRABLE
Summary: 5 Stars
Betty Grable Queen of Technicolor here in her prime in 1950
pre Marilyn Monroe and at the height of her powers with her Million Dollar Legs with support from Dan Dailey ,and Mitzi Gaynor WAtch It and Enjoy
Movie Review: Love Dan Dailey
Summary: 5 Stars
I love Dan Dailey musicals and this is one of the best. Betty Grable at her most charming.Movie Review: one of the better musicals with great numbers and acting
Summary: 4 Stars
My Blue Heaven may not be the best musical I've ever seen; but it certainly is enjoyable. Despite the unpleasant subject matter of an auto accident resulting in a woman's not being able to have babies of her own anymore, the plot incredibly manages to come off as slightly fluffy, thoroughly entertaining and even amusing. The song and dance numbers are excellent. Look for a very young Mitzi Gaynor in her film debut as Gloria, a young hoofer who wants to get into big time show business really fast.
When the action starts, Kitty Moran (Betty Grable) gets the news from her doctor that she is going to have a baby; and her husband Jack (Dan Dailey) is thrilled just as she is. Kitty and Jack have been stars on the radio for years but they don't feel complete; they want a child of their own. They attend a party to celebrate the upcoming birth but after an auto accident Kitty can no longer have babies. At first they are crushed but when they learn that their close friends Walter and Janet Pringle (David Wayne and Jane Wyatt, respectively) adopted two of their own children, the Morans have reason to be hopeful again.
It isn't long before they cross paths with an adoption agency's cold, nasty and stuffy old woman head manager who cherishes her puritanical values; the older woman openly admits she does not like at all to place babies in the homes of actors. (I bet she could be sued for openly admitting that today.) The Morans are once again crushed but they so badly want a baby that they go through with a shady deal across the Hudson River in New Jersey to adopt a baby girl.
Of course, complications can arise from this scenario. Is their deal to get the baby from New Jersey legal? Can Kitty keep up her show business work with husband Jack and take care of a baby simultaneously? Yes, Kitty and Jack hire a nurse but she's so strict Kitty can hardly touch the child let alone feed it! How will their bosses at work react to all this? Will Gloria be able to nudge her way into their act to get Kitty bumped out of the show business act now that the Morans are on television instead of radio? No plot spoilers here, folks--just watch the movie and find out!
The DVD has an optional commentary with Drew Casper and there are a couple of trailers for other Betty Grable films.
Overall, My Blue Heaven is one of the better musicals from Twentieth Century Fox. It's not the best I've seen but then again I've got a personal, soft spot in my heart for those MGM musicals. I nevertheless recommend this film for fans of its stars; and people who like musicals will clearly want this for their collections.
Movie Review: A Throwback to Radio's Last Days and Television's Rise
Summary: 4 Stars
MY BLUE HEAVEN takes a viewer back to the last days of radio and the first days of television. Betty Grable and Dan Dailey play Kitty and Jack Moran, a husband and wife song and dance team. We discover early in the story that Kitty is pregnant with their first child, but loses the baby after a car accident. Kitty learns she may never be able to have her own child and the couple accepts the possibility of being childless until they visit two friends and colleagues Walter and Janet Pringle (David Wayne and Jane Wyatt) who have adopted some of their bustling brood, Kitty and Jack decide to adopt. They have to face a number of obstacles including a snobbish adoption service director and a mother who decides to put her child up for adoption and then wants the child back. Since this is a 1950's musical, we know that the story will all work out better than anyone could expect but like all predictable Hollywood musicals, we may know how the story will end but we want to know what will happen to get to the happy ending.
Most of the musical numbers are interwoven in the radio and television numbers, so the story has a bit of a flow to it. There is a spoof of sorts on an "operetta set in the South Pacific" which in a buffoonish way bears a bit of a resemblance to another Twentieth Century musical. Mitzi Gaynor plays a young vamp named Gloria Adams who makes a move on Jack which Kitty takes rather well. Grable and Dailey are good partners in the film and there are some moments that make viewers feel sorry for the couple when they face setbacks.
I'm assuming that this DVD will appeal primarily to film buffs and Hollywood musical lovers. It doesn't have too many special features: a collection of stills from the filming and trailers for DOWN ARGENTINE WAY and THE DOLLY SISTERS. Still it's an enjoyable film and a good example of a 1950's musical.
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