Boeing Boeing (Paramount Pictures) (1965)

SYNOPSIS (Not For Publication) Bernard Lawrence (Tony Curtis), Paris correspondent for International Press, is a woman-juggler. The trick is to keep one airline hostess in hand and two in the air at all times. Vicky Hawkins (Suzanna Leigh) serves British United; Lise Bruner (Christiane Schmidtmer), Germany’s Lufthansa; Jacqueline Grieux (Dany Saval), Air France. Each thinks she’s his fiancee; none knows the other two exist; and all three share his flat with him—one, that is, at a time. To maintain the delicate balance of this life, Bernard is dependent on the airline schedules which he is forever nervously consulting, on a wrist chronometer with an alarm buzzer which is continually going off, and on an overworked American housekeeper named Bertha (Thelma Ritter) who tells him that what he needs is not a housekeeper but a Univac. The whole complicated mechanism strains to fly apart when he sees Vicky off at Orly Airport and welcomes Lise at the next ramp —split-second timing. At the apartment, where Bertha has ditched Vicky’s wardrobe in the nick of time, Lise tells him that soon they won’t be apart so long because Lufthansa is putting on a Super-Boeing with engines developing 21,000 pounds of thrust— and just then Vicky phones from the airport: she was taken off her plane at the last minute for transfer to the new VC 10 and is coming home. Bernard leaves Lise at the apartment and dashes back to Orly. He is in the bar with Vicky when Robert Reed (Jerry Lewis) turns up. His problem is that he can’t get a hotel reservation and proposes to move in with Bernard. Learning of Robert’s predicament, Vicky insists he stay in their spare bedroom. Sooner than expected, she is called to board the VC 10—and Lise enters; Lufthansa phoned her to come right over and board the Super-Boeing. From the conversation Robert now understands two thirds of his friend’s triple life, and when Lise too has left, he blackmails Bernard into letting him take that spare bedroom. Bernard surrenders the address to Robert, and then goes to the office. Jacqueline has left and Vicky is supposedly due next when Lise pops into the apartment. But Lise’s back is tired, so she permits Robert to massage her—and he puts her into a deep sleep. At the International office, meanwhile, Jacqueline surprises Bernard; she has been held over for transfer. Bernard takes her to the apartment, and Robert whispers about the unconscious Lise in the bedroom. Vicky turns up. By frantic sleight of hand, palming Jacqueline in this direction and Vicky in that one, the young men manage to prevent the three girls from discovering one another—momentarily. Then more confusion, more frantics, more juggling... The result: both Bernard and Robert are forced to run for the hills. In doing so, they grab a taxi. At the wheel is a ravishing young girl (Francoise Ruggieri). ‘I didn’t know,” says Robert, ‘‘they had girl taxi drivers in Paris.”’ ‘‘There are only three of us,’’ she says, adding that they share an apartment but never see one another because they all work different eight-hour shifts. “And what,’’ asks Bernard, perking up, “‘is your name, my dear?”’ POE EL. 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Lerpae, A.S.C.; Process Photography, Farciot Edouart, A.S.C.; Properties, Martin Pendleton & Anthony Wade; Makeup, Wally Westmore, S.M.A.; Hairdressing, Nellie Manley, C.H.S.; Script Supervisor, Marvin Weldon. | RUNNING TIME: 102 MINUTES | MATERIALS CHECK LIST REGULAR THEATRE TRAILER (Order from your local branch of National Screen Service) FREE: TV TRAILERS AND TELOP CARD — COLOR and BLACK & WHITE — Available are TWO FULL SETS of TV SPOTS dynamically created to effectively promote the film. Also available is a TY TELOP CARD. These television trailers are available in color and in black & white. (Order from Paramount Pictures Field Advertising & Publicity Dept—See coupon on back page.) FREE: RADIO SPOT ANNOUNCEMENTS MW ld if a ee Available is a FULL SET of RADIO SPOTS specifically created for maximum boxoffice sell. (Order from Paramount Pictures Field Adv. & Pub. 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