My Blue Heaven (1950), 7 Color

Betty Grable and Dan Dailey are a married song and dance team who cannot have children. The movie follows the travails as they try and adopt and keep the kids they adopt while performing on their TV show.
1h 36min | Drama, Musical | 15 September 1950 | Color
Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, David Wayne, Jane Wyatt, Mitzi Gaynor, Una Merkel, Louise Beavers.
Angela Blue ... assistant choreographer
Billy Daniel ... choreographer
Seymour Felix ... choreographer - island routine

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042767/

In the Tap! Appendix for Dan Dailey, Betty Grable.

1st of 17 films for MG. She's no extra here, playing the wannabe homewrecker, and getting her own solo dance number (ch11), and a duo with DD (ch18).

Songs performed (24 chapters with menu); all but My Blue Heaven (Donaldson & Whiting) are by Arlen & Blane:

• ch1. My Blue Heaven, Sung during the opening credits by Betty Grable, Dan Dailey and chorus 
• ch3. It's Deductible, Sung by Betty Grable, Dan Dailey and chorus 
• ch5. What a Man, Sung by David Wayne and chorus with Dan Dailey 
• ch8. Halloween, Sung and danced by Betty Grable, Dan Dailey and David Wayne 
• ch11. Cosmo Cosmetics, TV-commercial parody sung and danced by Mitzi Gaynor 
• ch12. I Love a New Yorker, Sung and danced by Betty Grable and Dan Dailey 
• ch15. My Blue Heaven, Danced by Betty Grable and Dan Dailey, MG
• ch18. Live Hard, Work Hard, Love Hard, Sung and danced by Dan Dailey, Mitzi Gaynor and Betty Grable 
• ch21. The Friendly Islands, Sung and danced by Betty Grable, Dan Dailey and chorus 
• ch23. Don't Rock the Boat, Dear, Sung and danced by Betty Grable and Dan Dailey 

A really interesting blend of musical comedy (performed on air within the film) and drama (the attempt to have children off-air.) Also interesting for being thoroughly about TV (although it starts on radio); they even named their dog "Mr. Milton". Per this website, "The first commercial color broadcast took place at 4:35PM on Monday, June 25th, 1951, when CBS offered an hour-long program entitled “Premiere” to an ad-hoc network of five stations in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington." So this film is a bit early having BG viewing DD live and in color at home.

Another good commentary track by Dr. Drew Casper; he loves Fox musicals, but is realistic about MG being a better dancer than BG. He also relates the Friendly Islands number (ch21) to the B'way musical South Pacific (Apr 7, 1949 - Jan 16, 1954), which DW jokes about earlier in the film. Casper talks fast (especially for him) in the second half of the film; he's got a lot to share. And I didn't notice any factual errors. I'm glad we've got his "lectures" on disc.

Fox, dir. Koster; 7