My Blue Heaven

My Blue Heaven
20th Century-Fox, 1950, Color, 96 minutes, ***
Released September, 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 acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner. Complications follow amid a series of musical numbers much too good for TV!

Produced by: Sol C. Siegel
Directed by: Henry Koster
Screen Play by: Lamar Trotti and Claude Binyon
Based on a Story by: S. K. Lauren ("Stork Don't Bring Babies")
Music by: Harold Arlen
Lyrics by: Ralph Blane
Song: "My Blue Heaven" by Walter Donaldson and George Whiting
Musical Direction: Alfred Newman
Vocal Direction: Ken Darby
Orchestration: Herbert Spencer, Earle Hagen
Dances Staged by: Billy Daniel
"Friendly Island" Number by Seymour Felix
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, Joseph C. Wright
Set Decorations: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox
Wardrobe Direction: Charles Le Maire
Makeup Artist: Ben Nye
Sound: Arthur L. Kirbach, Harry M. Leonard
Director of Photography: Arthur E. Arling
Color by Technicolor
Technicolor Color Consultant: Richard Mueller
Film Editor: James B. Clark

Cast: Betty Grable [Kitty Moran], Dan Dailey [Jack Moran], David Wayne [Walter Pringle], Jane Wyatt [Janet Pringle], Mitzi Gaynor [Gloria Adams], Una Merkel [Miss Irma Gilbert], Don Hicks [Young man], Louise Beavers [Selma], Laura Pierpont [Mrs. Johnston], Bill Baldwin [Announcer], John Hedloe [Announcer], Billy Daniel [Dance Director], Elinor Donahue [Bratty Autograph Seeker], Bess Flowers [Party Guest], Irving Fulton [Specialty], Barbara Pepper [Susan, Waitress]

Musical Program: [0:00] My Blue Heaven (sung behind credits by Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, and Chorus; also used as their program theme song); [0:05] It's Deductible (sung by Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, and party guests); [0:11] What a Man (sung by David Wayne, Dan Dailey and party guests); [0:23] Halloween (sung and danced by Betty Grable, Dan Dailey and David Wayne); [0:33] Cosmo Cosmetics (TV commercial sung and danced by Mitzi Gaynor); [0:35] I Love a New Yorker (sung and danced by Betty Grable and Dan Dailey); [0:50] My Blue Heaven (instrumental arrangement with some choral vocals danced by Betty Grable and Dan Dailey on TV); [1:02] Live Hard, Work Hard, Love Hard (sung and danced by Dan Dailey, Mitzi Gaynor and Chorus on TV; sung and danced by Betty Grable at home); [1:18] Cosmo Cosmetics (TV commercial sung and danced by Mitzi Gaynor introducing the following number); [1:19] The Friendly Islands (production number sung and danced by Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, and Chorus); [1:30] Don't Rock the Boat, Dear (sung and danced by Betty Grable and Dan Dailey); [1:35] My Blue Heaven (reprised by Chorus at end of film)