The Sky's the Limit (1943) on Netflix
NR19431h 29mComedyMusicRomance
Flying Tiger ace Fred Atwell slips away from his squadron's morale tour for a few days in New York. There he pursues photographer Joan Manion, posing as a jobless stranger named Burton.
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Plot summary
Lieutenant Fred Atwell, a triple ace with the Flying Tigers, is back in the United States with fellow pilots Reginald Fenton and Richard Merlin for a parade and a ten-day leave that is meant to be spent on a morale tour. Fred leaves the train at a rural stop and reaches New York City in civilian clothes, where he watches Joan Manion walk into a nightclub. Joan photographs celebrities for Eyeful Magazine, wants a wartime assignment, and has a publisher, Phil Harriman, who keeps her close and keeps asking her to marry him. Fred intrudes on her work, hides behind the name Burton, and rents a room across the hall from hers. Joan, who believes he has neither a job nor any ambition, lets him take her out.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Sky's the Limit (1943)
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- The film's technical adviser was Robert T. Smith, a real former Flying Tiger pilot who was on leave before joining the Army Air Forces, the same situation as Fred Astaire's character, a Flying Tiger pilot on leave.
- Fred Astaire's script for the film gave him his first opportunity to act in a serious dramatic role, and it also contains his famous solo performance of "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)", which he described as "the best song specially written for me".
