Buy Me Blue Ribbons was a 1951 play by Australian writer Sumner Locke Elliott.

"[7] Critic Walter Kerr later said: The play which Mr. Elliott had supplied wasn't too bad as a stock enterprise.

It moved with relatively little awkwardness, it handled its stereotyped show-business characters with an ease born of familiarity, it had a few bright lines.

But whatever small praise might have been eked out for the play was shot to pieces the min¬ ute Mr. Robinson entered it.

"[13] The play received a number of other productions, including one in San Francisco starring Robinson in 1958.

Variety wrote "Roddy McDowall did himself proud in the lead part, playing It with a mixture of gusto and understanding... Penn directed in crackerjack fashion.