Boeing, Boeing (1965) on Netflix
Bernard Lawrence, an American journalist in Paris, is engaged to three flight attendants, each unaware of the others, and keeps them apart by airline timetables. New jets redraw the routes.
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Plot summary
Bernard Lawrence, an American journalist stationed in Paris, dates three flight attendants: Vicky Hawkins of British United, Lise Bruner of Lufthansa and Jacqueline Grieux of Air France. Their international routes do not overlap, so only one is in the city at a time. With his housekeeper Bertha swapping photographs, food and bed linens to match whoever is due, each woman treats his apartment as home during her layovers and none knows of the other two. Content in Paris, Bernard means to turn down a promotion that would move him to New York. Then the airlines put new jet aircraft into service, rewriting the route schedules, and his three girlfriends can spend more time in Paris.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Boeing, Boeing (1965)
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- Because Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis both wanted top billing on Boeing Boeing, their names spin around in a circle against an airplane nacelle at the start of the film. In the trailer the animation repeats and neither name is spoken aloud.
- Wallis insisted on casting Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis in the leads of Boeing Boeing, but director John Rich would have preferred Jack Lemmon or Dick Van Dyke in place of Lewis.
- Director John Rich said Jerry Lewis initially misbehaved on the set until he threatened him, and that the two then forged a capable working relationship.
- Boeing Boeing was the last film Jerry Lewis made for Paramount Pictures, the studio that had produced all of his films since My Friend Irma in 1949.
- Boeing Boeing was one of the first times audiences heard Jerry Lewis speak in his normal voice throughout, a departure from the clownish visual comedy his fans were used to.
- Quentin Tarantino selected Boeing Boeing for the first Quentin Tarantino Film Fest, held in Austin, Texas, in 1996.
