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...Bing Crosby (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). A return to radio; Bob Hope, guest...
Blue Skies (Paramount) has Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and a couple of dozen old & new Irving Berlin melodies. Millions of moviegoers, happily fighting their way to the box office, will ask nothing more of this $3 million Technicolored exhibition of Old Masters...
...Bing (whose gross income this year will exceed $1½ million) has never been in better voice. Astaire, at 47, seems to step as nimbly as he ever did. The Berlin tunes and lyrics-from All Alone right up to the new You Keep Coming Back Like a Song-are as sweetly foolish and affecting as young love itself. The only real trouble with this big, pretty song & dance is the tedious plot it is hung on. Crosby and Astaire, seasoned enough showmen to know that nothing is really required of them except their standard suave recitals, treat the story...
Both boys are in love with the same beautiful blonde (Joan Caulfield). She admires Fred's hoofing, as who does hot? But no lady could be expected to hold out against Bing's crooning. Married, singer and girl plunge into a peculiar marital conflict. Bing makes his living by buying & selling successful nightclubs. He plainly enjoys his work and does well enough at it to provide the little woman with striking Edith Head gowns and the smartest interiors that Paramount's art department can whip together. But Joan is terribly depressed by it all. Bing...
...burlesque vaudeville act, called A Couple of Song & Dance Men, was comparatively easy. Fred worked it out in a mere ten days with a stand-in dancer and then taught Bing to mimic the standin. Astaire's considered critique of Crosby's hoofing: "Bing is a wonderful performer. His dancing tickles me to death. But if I said he was a good dancer, it would be the same as Bing calling me a good singer...