Blue Skies

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Blue Skies

1946,

1h 44m,

Musical/

Romance

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Aging New York radio star and former dance sensation Jed Potter (Fred Astaire) tells his life story on the air. It comes dramatized through a series of vignettes that recount a decades-long love triangle that started between a much younger Potter, his one-time Army buddy and show-business rival, Johnny Adams (Bing Crosby) and a spitfire showgirl and nightclub singer, Mary O'Hara (Joan Caulfield). Throughout, musical numbers featuring the songs of Irving Berlin punctuate the drama.

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Frank J. Avella

Edge Media Network

Mar 28, 2022

C

Perhaps a stronger director might have jazzed things up a bit, but if you take out the musical numbers featuring Astaire you are left with a confounding cinematic mess with Caulfield at the center, an actress who has very little charm...

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Mar 26, 2022

2.5/4

The films highlight -- by far -- is Astaire's performance of Puttin' on the Ritz."

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Jack Moffitt

Esquire Magazine

Oct 7, 2020

Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and Joan Caulfield are the inhabitants of this fictional vacuum, and do their best to blow into it a breath of life. Fortunately, their best is pretty good.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Feb 18, 2007

C+

Astaire's dancing is just the best.

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Steve Crum

Kansas City Kansan

Oct 16, 2004

5/5

Gorgeous color, gorgeous talents. And Berlin classics.

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Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Nov 26, 2003

3/5

Great songs, great teaming of Crosby and Astaire, dismal script.

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Jan 27, 2019

The best musical movie ever made!

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Stuart Heisler

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Johnny Adams

Fred Astaire

Jed Potter

Joan Caulfield

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Synopsis

Aging New York radio star and former dance sensation Jed Potter (Fred Astaire) tells his life story on the air. It comes dramatized through a series of vignettes that recount a decades-long love triangle that started between a much younger Potter, his one-time Army buddy and show-business rival, Johnny Adams (Bing Crosby) and a spitfire showgirl and nightclub singer, Mary O'Hara (Joan Caulfield). Throughout, musical numbers featuring the songs of Irving Berlin punctuate the drama.

Director: Stuart Heisler
Producer: Sol C. Siegel
Screenwriter: Arthur Sheekman
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Musical, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 16, 1946, Original
Runtime: 1h 44m

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