My Blue Heaven Reviews

A paper-thin plot that essentially served to reunite Grable and Dailey after their success in WHEN MY BABY SMILES AT ME. It also served to introduce a pert, energetic, and brunette Mitzi Gaynor to the movies. Dailey and Grable are a successful radio team, about to jump into TV, and happily expecting a child. But they get into a car accident, and Grable loses the child and is told it will be impossible for her to bear another. Their best friends are Wayne and Wyatt, who have five children (Plowman, Blunt, Pagett, Stevens, and McKenzie) and the sight of the happy family causes Dailey and Grable to try adoption. But they are stymied by the red tape and the fact that the adoption agencies dislike theater people, no matter how successful they may be. They manage to get a baby, but not for long. After the head of an orphanage gets them a different child, they then get the first one back, so they now have two. Suddenly, Grable discovers she is pregnant, despite what the doctors said, and they wind up with an instant family. Along the way, there are a few good satires of TV commercials for cosmetics and a number of songs, including the title tune, written by George Whiting and Walter Donaldson and sung by Grable and Dailey, and several more by Ralph Blane and Harold Arlen: "Live Hard, Work Hard, Love Hard" (sung by Gaynor), "What a Man," "It's Deductible," "Don't Rock the Boat, Dear," "Friendly Islands," "I Love a New Yorker," and "Halloween." Other than the title song, none of the others rocked the charts.