Coffee, Tea, or Me? Boeing Boeing Screens at Oddball Films March 13, 2009

Event: Coffee, Tea, or Me?: Sex in the Age of the Stewardess Guest curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present the rarely screened 1965 film Boeing Boeing. Starring Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis and Thelma Ritter, this sex farce has playboy Tony Curtis juggling three stewardess girlfriends at his bachelor pad in Paris, with the help of his housekeeper Thelma Ritter and no help from houseguest Jerry Lewis. Out of print on VHS and not available on DVD, this is a beautiful Technicolor 16mm print. Select jet age shorts, trailers and commercials will also be screened.
Date: Friday, March 13, 2009 at 8:30PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco 94110
Admission: $10.00 RSVP Only to: 415-558-8117 or [email protected]
Web: http://oddballfilm.com/resources/events_parent.html

On Friday, March 13, Guest Curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present Boeing Boeing, the rarely screened, Hal Wallis produced 1965 feature film starring Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis and Thelma Ritter. Playboy Bernard (Tony Curtis) is juggling three girlfriends at his bachelor pad in Paris with the help of his housekeeper (Thelma Ritter). Each is a stewardess on different schedules with no knowledge of each other, until new, faster jets are introduced, throwing a monkey wrench into the works. To make matters worse, old friend Robert Reed (Jerry Lewis) shows up and insists on staying in the apartment- where he schemes to take over!

The last of the Hal Wallis/Jerry Lewis collaborations, Boeing Boeing teams the red hot Tony Curtis and veteran character actor Thelma Ritter with the sex symbol of times: the stewardess, long before they were de-sexed in the late 1970’s to flight attendants. Boeing Boeing started life in the early 1960’s as a Broadway stage production. In 1985 there was a lavish Indian re-make. And a new stage production just finished a smash run on Broadway in January this year (and will soon be on tour). Out of print on VHS and not available on DVD, this is a beautiful Technicolor 16mm print. Don’t miss it! In addition, short films about the jet age and stewardesses will be screened before the feature. Showtime is 8:30PM and admission is $10.00. Seating is limited so RSVP is preferred to: [email protected] or 415-558-8117.

PLUS: Clips, shorts, trailers and commercials including Operation Jetliner (b&w, 1960s), Airplane Trip by Jet (b&w, 1960s), Pan Am’s World (color, 1970s), Superchick trailer (color, 1973), more.

Curator Biography:
Pete Gowdy (aka DJ Chas Gaudi) is host of San Francisco’s Shellac Shack, a weekly 78 rpm listening party and a DJ specializing in vintage sounds: soul, jazz, country, punk and new wave. A graduate of the Vassar College Film Program, he is an associate producer of Marc Huestis Presents, the long-running movie legend tributes at the Castro and Victoria Theatre.

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