Come Fly with Me (film)


Come Fly with Me is a 1963 British comedy film about three beautiful international air hostesses looking for romance and excitement. The film has dramatic or soap opera elements to it, and was a vehicle for glamorizing the jet age and the prestige, adventure and romance that came with being an air hostess. It is based on Bernard Glemsers 1960 chicklit novel Girl on a Wing, which was published again in 1969 under the title, The Fly Girls.

Three air hostesses, based in New York City, are working for the fictional airline Polar Atlantic Airways. The three serve on a Boeing 707 making regular flights between New York, Paris and Vienna. Along the way, air hostess Donna Stuart Dolores Hart, meets Baron Franz Von Elzingen Karlheinz Bhm, an impoverished Austrian baron who turns out to be a diamond smuggler. Southern belle Carol Brewster Pamela Tiffin develops a crush on the planes First Officer, Ray Winsley Hugh OBrian, who himself is having an affair with a married woman Dawn Addams. The third air hostess, Hilda Bergie Bergstrom, Lois Nettleton gets noticed by a multimillionaire widower from Texas named Walter Lucas Karl Malden.The film was shot in Panavision and Metrocolor, during 1962, in New York, Paris and Versailles, Vienna and the Woerther See with studio interiors shot at MGM British Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England. The shoot tookweeks. ........

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