Blue Skies (1946) on Netflix
Approved19461h 39mComedyMusicalRomance
Jed Potter recalls 1919, when he loves chorus girl Mary O'Hara and hopes to make her a Broadway lead. She is drawn to nightclub owner Johnny Adams, his former vaudeville partner.
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- Netflix3.3/5
- IMDb6.4/101,690 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes67%
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Plot summary
Jed Potter, a New York radio star who once danced on Broadway, shares with his listeners a tale he has not yet finished, one about a woman. The story moves to 1919, when he is a rising dancer appearing in a show alongside Mary O'Hara, a chorus girl. He urges her to take a part in a new Broadway production of Charles Dillingham's, telling her it could lift her out of the chorus and into a leading role. Mary refuses, but that evening she goes with him to a club run by Johnny Adams, a crooner who was Jed's partner in vaudeville and a fellow soldier. At a party afterward the pair dance and speak of what they feel. Mary then accepts the Broadway part.
Cast
- Jean Aloiseas Dancer(uncredited)
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Blue Skies (1946)
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- Tap dancer Paul Draper was the first choice to partner Bing Crosby in Blue Skies, but during the first week of production his speech impediment and his trenchant criticism of Joan Caulfield's dancing led Crosby to insist on replacing him with Fred Astaire, who was then 47.
- Mark Sandrich was originally slated to direct Blue Skies but died of a heart attack during pre-production, and Stuart Heisler was drafted in to replace him.
- Director Stuart Heisler wanted Joan Caulfield replaced in Blue Skies, but Bing Crosby, who was having an affair with her, protected her.
- The "Puttin' On the Ritz" number was filmed after the rest of Blue Skies had been completed and, by Astaire's own account, took five weeks of "back-breaking physical work" to prepare.
- Astaire's "Puttin' On the Ritz" routine ends with him sweeping aside curtains to show a chorus of nine Fred Astaires, created by filming three separate versions of Astaire and interleaving them.
- Astaire's tap solo in the "Heat Wave" number was shot in one take and used music he composed himself, the only time his music was used in a film.
- In Blue Skies, the lyrics of "Puttin' On the Ritz" were updated, replacing references to ritzy Harlemites with wealthy whites strutting their stuff up and down Park Avenue.
