Bye Bye Blues


Release Information: September 9, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 9, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 9, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 9, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 9, 1989; Vancouver; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 9, 1989; Vancouver; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 9, 1989; Vancouver; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 9, 1989; Vancouver; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 9, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 9, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 9, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 9, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 9, 1989; Montréal (Français dub: Parisien 1); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 9, 1989; Montréal (Français dub: Parisien 1); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 9, 1989; Montréal (Français dub: Parisien 1); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 9, 1989; Montréal (Français dub: Parisien 1); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 15, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 15, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 15, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 15, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 15, 1989; Vancouver; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 15, 1989; Vancouver; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 15, 1989; Vancouver; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 15, 1989; Vancouver; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 15, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 15, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 15, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 15, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 15, 1989; Montréal (Français dub: Parisien 1); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 15, 1989; Montréal (Français dub: Parisien 1); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 15, 1989; Montréal (Français dub: Parisien 1); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); September 15, 1989; Montréal (Français dub: Parisien 1); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); October 6, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); October 6, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); October 6, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); October 6, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); October 6, 1989; Vancouver; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); October 6, 1989; Vancouver; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); October 6, 1989; Vancouver; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); October 6, 1989; Vancouver; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); October 6, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); October 6, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); October 6, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); October 6, 1989; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); October 6, 1989; Montréal (Français dub: Parisien 1); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); October 6, 1989; Montréal (Français dub: Parisien 1); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); October 6, 1989; Montréal (Français dub: Parisien 1); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); October 6, 1989; Montréal (Français dub: Parisien 1); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); March 16, 1990; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); March 16, 1990; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); March 16, 1990; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); March 16, 1990; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); March 16, 1990; Vancouver; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); March 16, 1990; Vancouver; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); March 16, 1990; Vancouver; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); March 16, 1990; Vancouver; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); March 16, 1990; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); March 16, 1990; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); March 16, 1990; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); March 16, 1990; Toronto; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); March 16, 1990; Montréal (Français dub: Parisien 1); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); March 16, 1990; Montréal (Français dub: Parisien 1); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); March 16, 1990; Montréal (Français dub: Parisien 1); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); March 16, 1990; Montréal (Français dub: Parisien 1); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)


Funding Sources: Alberta Funding
National Film Board
Private
Feature Film Fund (Telefilm Canada)

Budget: Budget: $4,500,000

Production Details


Executive Producer: Anne Wheeler; Tony Allard; Tony Allard; Tony Allard; Arvi Liimatainen; Arvi Liimatainen; Arvi Liimatainen; Anne Wheeler; Anne Wheeler; Vic Sarin

117 minutes, 1988

No summary has been provided for this film.

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Bye Bye Blues Commentary

Anne Wheeler’s 30-year career as a Canadian filmmaker has been punctuated by many fine moments, among which was the release in 1989 of her third feature film, Bye Bye Blues. Nominated for thirteen Genie awards and winner of three awards for best...
Cordélia Commentary

Based on an historical court case and inspired by the Quebecois novel, La Lampe dans la fenêtre by Pauline Cadieux, Cordélia (Cordelia) tells the story of what it costs to be different and female in a small community. At the end of the 1890s, a...
A War Story Commentary

Anne Wheeler’s feature film, Bye Bye Blues (1989) about how her mother fed her family of three boys during World War II by singing in a dance band is more widely known than her earlier docudrama, A War Story (1981), which was about her father’s...

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