Blue Skies is a 1946musicalfilm. The story and music are by Irving Berlin. It stars Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. ... Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989), born Israel Isidore Baline, in Tyumen, Russia (or possibly Mogilev, Belarus), was an American composer and lyricist, one of the most prodigious and famous American songwriters in history. ... Harry Lillis Crosby, better known as Bing Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was one of the most popular and influential American singers and actors of the 20th century whose career flourished from 1926 until his death in 1977. ... Fred Astaire Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. ...
His last two films, Ziegfeld Follies and Yolanda and the Thief, had been awkward flops, and he was on the far side of 45, not a pleasant place to be for a dancer or a leading man.
The film was a very big hit, and Astaires Puttin on the Ritz number, intended to be his farewell to the screen, received enormous publicity.
BlueSkies is available on a budget twofer DVD, with another Bing Crosby flick, Birth of the Blues, a true curiosity.
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