Boeing Boeing (1965 film)
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| Directed by | John Rich |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis |
| Screenplay by | Edward Anhalt |
| Based on |
Boeing-Boeing play by Marc Camoletti |
| Starring |
Jerry Lewis Tony Curtis Thelma Ritter Christiane Schmidtmer Dany Saval Suzanna Leigh |
| Music by | Neal Hefti |
| Cinematography | Lucien Ballard |
| Edited by | Warren Low Archie Marshek |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English French German |
| Box office | $3 million (est. US/ Canada rentals) 1,128,519 admissions (France) |
Boeing (707) Boeing (707) (alternately titled Boeing Boeing) is a 1965 American bedroom farce comedy film, based on the 1960 French play Boeing-Boeing, and starring Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis. It was released on December 22, 1965, and was the last film Paramount Pictures made with Lewis, who had made films exclusively with the studio since My Friend Irma (1949).
Bernard Lawrence (Tony Curtis) is an American journalist stationed in Paris, France. A playboy, he has devised an ingenious system for juggling three different girlfriends: by dating stewardesses who are assigned to international routes on non-intersecting flight schedules, only one woman is in the country at any given time. He has their comings and goings timetabled with such precision that he can drop off his British United Airways girlfriend (Suzanna Leigh) for her outgoing flight and pick up his inbound Lufthansa girlfriend (Christiane Schmidtmer) on the very same trip to the airport—while his Air France girlfriend (Dany Saval) is in a holding pattern elsewhere.
With help from his long-suffering housekeeper Bertha (Thelma Ritter)—who swaps the appropriate photos and food in and out of the apartment to match the incoming girlfriend—none of the ladies is aware of each other's presence in the apartment. They regard Lawrence's flat as their "home" during their Paris layovers.
Bernard is so happy with his life in Paris that he intends to turn down an imminent promotion that would require him to move to New York City.
Bernard's life is turned upside down when his girlfriends' airlines begin putting new, state-of-the-art aircraft into service. These faster airplanes change all of the existing route schedules and allow the stewardesses to spend more time in Paris. Most alarming for Bernard, his three girlfriends will now all be in Paris at the same time.
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