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Cinema: Coffee, Tea or Bilk?

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Come Fly with Me is one of those Three Girls in (fill in your favorite place) genre pictures, and this time the words to fill in are “the wild blue yonder.” Pamela Tiffin, Dolores Hart and Lois Nettleton are the stewardesses aboard a transatlantic jet, and their avowed purpose is to promote dates, affairs or weddings with the pilots and the passengers. Dolores is the wild one who zeroes in on a baron with a flashy gold cigarette case; Lois is blue because she is “over 30” and unwed; and Pamela is a way-out innocent on a collision course for the plane’s cleft-chinned pilot (Hugh O’Brian). Paris, Vienna and picturesque Idlewild furnish the backdrops.

The dialogue is out of some high school play. Lois reacts to the news that her Texas boy friend (Karl Maiden) has $40 million by saying: “All us girls have our price.” Dolores does not care if the baron is really an international jewel thief who has been using her as a diamond drop, “because I happen to be in love with you.” And when Pamela stomps into the cockpit to tell Pilot O’Brian that “there are plenty of other men in the world,” he probably would have slugged her if he had not been busy driving the plane.

The screenplay for Come Fly with Me is the work of William Roberts. He deserves the season’s Joe Miller Award for being mostest with the fustiest.

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