Come Fly with Me ** (1963, Dolores Hart, Hugh O’Brian, Karlheinz Böhm, Pamela Tiffin, Lois Nettleton, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 9318

Director Henry Levin 1962 grounded Come Fly with Me tells the romantic tale of three empty-headed air hostesses (Dolores Hart as Donna Stuart, Pamela Tiffin as Carol Brewster and Lois Nettleton as ‘Bergie’ Bergstrom) looking for husbands during a flight over the Atlantic from New York to Paris.

Come Fly with Me is faded escapism, with a rather vacuous if harmless script by William Roberts, based on the novel by Bernard Glemser. But at least it looks a treat in Oswald Morris’s cinematography and there are a lovely tours of Paris and Vienna too.

Karl Malden (as recently widowed older millionaire Walter Lucas), Karlheinz Böhm [Karl Boehm] (as the diamond sumuggler Baron Franz Von Elzingen) and Hugh O’Brian (the plane’s womanising pilot, First Officer Ray Winsley) are the more interesting men in the hostesses’ lives.

Also in the cast are Dawn Addams, Richard Wattis, Andrew Cruickshank, James Dobson, Lois Maxwell, Guido Wieland, Maurice Marsac and Robert Easton, George Coulouris, André Maranne, Ferdy Mayne, Robert Nichols, Victor Rietti and Hans Schumm.

The song Come Fly with Me has Music by Jimmy Van Heusen and Lyrics by Sammy Cahn and is sung by Frankie Avalon.

It is Dolores Hart’s last film. In 1963 she left Hollywood for good and became a nun.

Dolores Hart was born on 20 October 1938.

Dolores Hart was born on October 20, 1938 in Chicago. She is now called the Reverend Mother Dolores Hart, prioress of the Roman Catholic abbey of Regina Laudis (Queen of Praise) in Bethlehem, Connecticut. She is the only nun to be a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and stays active as an Academy voter by reviewing films.

She recalled: ‘I did not grow up wanting to be a nun. I wanted to be an actress. I’d done two movies with Elvis Presley [Loving You and King Creole]. I’d been around Hollywood for a while – and saw how needlessly competitive and negative it could be.’ On kissing Elvis and becoming a nun: ‘How much closer to Heaven can you get?’

Come Fly with Me is directed by Henry Levin, runs 108 minutes, is made by De Grunwald Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, MGM, is written by William Roberts (story and writer), based on the novel by Bernard Glemser), is shot by Oswald Morris (Metrocolor), produced by Anatole de Grunwald and scored by Lyn Murray, with Art Direction by William Kellner.

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