Boeing Boeing (Paramount Pictures) (1965)

THE WINNING COMBO JERRY LEWIS AND TONY CURTIS Still #10232/123 ALL IS NOT WELL! Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis are teamed for the first time in “Boeing-Boeing,” Hal Wallis’ Technicolor adaptation of Europe’s reigning stage comedy of the decade Which: -OPens:.....< <mvscros situs es at thie! 3 cate te ae oes Theatre. French star Dany Saval, Germany’s “liebesbombe” (love bomb), Christiane Schmidtmer, and Britain’s Suzanna Leigh co-star as the girls in this Paramount Picture. Set-In-France “Boeing-Boeing” Marks U. S. Screen Debut For England’s uzanna Leigh Beautiful young English aristocrat Suzanna Leigh received a royal welcome from “Boeing-Boeing” stars Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis, when she joined them to make her American film debut in the Hal Wallis Technicolor production for Paramount Pictures, opening .......... The red carpet reception accorded the lovely actress was planned by Curtis and Lewis, two of Hollywood’s most expert ambassadors, with gallantry and forethought. They knew she was a member of British society and had decided to greet her and treat her in the style to which she was accustomed. In the screenplay by Academy Award-winner Edward Anhalt, Miss Leigh co-stars with Dany Saval, France’s newest sex kitten; Christiane Schmidtmer, West Germany’s love goddess; and Thelma Ritter, the delightful, veteran American actress. Sensuous Suzanna portrays one of the three international airline hostesses who make up the revolving harem of an American newspaper correspondent, a role tailor made for the romantic-comedy talents of Curtis. In regular succession, according to their flight schedules, the Misses Leigh, Saval and Schmidtmer move into his Paris flat and depart from it one at a time. Lewis, who lights up the screen as a sophisticated comedian in the role of a rival journalist, proves to be the fly in the ointment when he discovers the love nest and tries to take over. Keeper of the schedules and housekeeper of the madcap menage is Miss Ritter, who returns to pictures after a long absence. Miss Leigh first came into contact with the international comedy hit by Mare Camelotti, upon which the film story is based, in London. It has run three years in her hometown on the Thames and six years at the . {223200 Theatre. on the Paris stage. A member of England’s Establishment, who has met the Queen at tea and danced with Prince Philip, Miss Leigh came to producer Hal Wallis’ attention while trying to be her own fairy godmother in a Cinderella story that had everything but white mice. Trying to shock London society with her arrival at an annual opera ball, she spent approximately 3,000 pounds ($8,400) on her costume. She had Mme. Du Barry’s courtpresentation dress copied, hired a sedan chair, which was made especially for her, and four footmen, and indulged herself with a coiffure that consumed six hours of preparation. She was being carried to the masked ball in Mayfair’s Grosvenor House, costumed as the mistress of Louis XV, when one of her footmen slipped in the snow. Suzanna, sedan chair and all went spilling into the street. The next day, Wallis saw pictures of the beautiful bumbler in the newspapers, summoned her for an audition, and she won the role in “Boeing-Boeing,” which was filmed in both Hollywood and Paris. Previously, she had apveared in English films and had attracted attention on British television. The fetching twenty-year-old actress not onlv looks like the Grace Kelly that Hollywood once knew, but she breathes comparably rarefied air. She has been “presented” at Buckingham Palace, lives in London’s fashionable Belgrave Square, and moves in England’s jet set. Hal Wallis “Boeing-Boeing” Jets In: A Spicy Saga Of Flight-Age Casanovas Two enterprising Casanovas, Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis, explore the advantages of the Age of Flight as the stars of Hal Wallis’ saucy and sparkling “Boeing-Boeing,” a new Paramount Pic ture in Technicolor, opening Vistas of female beauties beyond the dream of sailors are opened to Curtis and Lewis, rival American newspapermen based in Paris, with a trio of airline hostesses. The lovely ladies keep dropping out of the blue and vanishing back into it with clocklike regularity, one no sooner gone than another is deposited on the next ramp. Co-starring as the delectable dishes in the screen version of Europe’s reigning stage comedy of this decade are three international beauties. They are Dany Saval, honey-blonde French star; West Berlin’s queen-size, blonde “liebesbombe” (love bomb), Christiane Schmidtmer; and the aristocratic English glamor girl, Suzanna Leigh. Thelma Ritter has returned to the screen after an eighteen-month absence to share co-star billing as the indispensable fourth woman in the boys’ lives. She is the housekeeper, charged with keeping the right girl’s wardrobe in place and the wrong ones’ out of sight, while preserving the proper chronology of crepes and souffle, knockwurst and sauerkraut, and scones. Producer Wallis can rest assured that “Boeing-Boeing” will maintain his position in the upper echelon of filmmakers. He is a prolific and abundantly-versatile independent whose pictures have ranged the spectrum of entertainment. Over the years, his films have gathered a total of 33 Academy Awards and 121 nominations in various categories. He twice has won the Thalberg Trophy for consistently high standards of production. At the same time, his record attests to a highly developed sense of box office values, amply displayed again with his new production. Among the stars whom he has brought to the screen, in addition to Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, are Elvis Presley, Shirley MacLaine, Charlton Heston, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Carolyn Jones and Shirley Booth. In “Boeing-Boeing,” he introduces a new Jerry Lewis to audiences. Gone are the comic’s famous and endearing slapstick trademarks —the rubber legs, crossed eyes and clown mouth, The new Jerry is a debonair and sophisticated comedian, running competition to romantic comedian Curtis, who has become one of Hollywood’s finest talents, on his own ground. Wallis assigned Edward Anhalt to write the screenplay. Their previous collaboration as producerwriter was the prestigous “Becket,” for which Anhalt won his second Academy Award. The first was for the script of “Panic in the Streets.” For “Boeing-Boeing,” Anhalt’s script led to the streets of Paris, where all exterior scenes were filmed, and the original Mare Camoletti play was born. Locations included some of the City of Lights most beautiful sites—Orly Airport, the Bois de Boulogne, the Champs Elysees, the Etoile with its Are de Triomphe, the Place de Conogorde, and the area around the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Another Academy Award winner associated with the comedy is the internationally noted fashion designer, Edith Head. Miss Head has accumulated seven Oscars and twenty additional nominations, dressing many of the screen’s most glamorous women. She describes this assignment as “talking seduction in three fashion languages.” Copyright © 1965 by Hal B. Wallis and Joseph H. Hazen. Permission granted for newspaper and magazine reproduction. (Made in U.S.A.) rf SO bb bt tt Still #10232/8 decade opening .......... SEDI DDD DDD bbb bbb bbb bbb bbb bbb bbb bbb bbb bbb bbb ibibo by Neal Hefti. bbb bt INTUITION Multi-award-winning producer Hal Wallis consistently combines high standards of production with a highly developed “feel” for box office values, as revealed again in his latest Technicolor production, “Boeing-Boeing,” a Paramount Picture starring Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis as Jet Age Casanovas, which ODENS iia. 345.4 tabs aleve at ne) ose eae bees Innovator Wallis convinced comedienne Thelma Ritter to return to the screen after an absence of eighteen months, and “imported” three international beauties—Dany Saval from France, Suzanna Leigh from England and _ Christiane Schmidtmer from West Germany —to co-star in the saucy comedy. “Boeing-Boeing,” directed by John Rich, was written for the screen by Academy Award-winner Edward Anhalt from the international stage hit by Mare Camoletti. PII IIAIAISI AIA AAA AA SAS SAAS SSAS SSCS SSSSCSCSSISISCSACSSI ISAAC IAA ACA. What A Way To Go! FI IIIA IIA IA AAA AIA SAS ASA AAS ASASSSACSCSCSSCSSCSCSSCSSCSCSSICSC SSSI SASICSA ACSC BEWILDERED BY BEAUTY—Germany’s luscious “love bomb,” Christiane Schmidtmer cheers up Jerry Lewis while Tony Curtis gets most of the attention from French star Dany Saval and Britain’s Suzanna Leigh. For the first time, Lewis and Curtis are teamed together in Paramount’s “Boeing-Boeing,” Hal Wallis’ Technicolor adaptation of Europe’s reigning stage comedy of the WUANOY ei ie oes Theatre. With Christiane Schmidtmer, Dany Saval and Suzanna Leigh as the girls, the comedy also co-stars Thelma Ritter as the distracted housekeeper. “Boeing-Boeing” was directed by John Rich from a sereenplay written by Academy Award-winner Edward Anhalt. Fashions in the film are the creations of famed international designer, Edith Head, with a musical score composed and conducted PIII IIIIAAIAAI AAI AASAS AAI ASA ASS AS SASSI SS SASSI SACS SISA ACA IK asses AC ips . waekwae ce ERORTe. >t Mat 2B SDD bbb bbb bbb bbb bb bbb bbb bbb bbb bb bbb ibbibaiobbioioioiibibi iat ibibo bib bi iibibibt ttt THE PERFECT COMBINATION The Academy Award-winning duo, producer Hal Wallis and screen writer Edward Anhalt, teamed together again for “BoeingBoeing,” a new Paramount Picture in Technicolor, starring Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis and opening sey gat WE ae Bb ENO 05:5 snevebernreree Theatre. Their previous effort, which won 12 Oscar nominations and _ the Award for Anhalt, was the prestigous drama, “Becket.” This time around, Wallis and Anhalt apply their acclaimed talents to a sophisticated comedy, based on the longrunning international stage hit by Mare Camoletti. “Boeing Boeing,” directed by John Rich, also boasts a scintillating music score composed and conducted by Neal Hefti.