Three Guys Named Mike
Director: Charles Walters
Genre: Romance Film, Comedy, Romantic comedy
Year: 1951
Country: United States of America
Starring: Van Johnson, Jane Wyman, Barry Sullivan, Barbara Billingsley, Don McGuire, Howard Keel, Jeff Donnell, Herbert Heyes, Phyllis Kirk, Hugh Sanders, John Maxwell, Percy Helton, Anne Sargent
Three Guys Named Mike is a 1951 American black-and-white film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Charles Walters. In 1979, the film entered the public domain (in the USA) due to the claimants failure to renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.
Described as a "lighthearted and lightweight story" by Turner Classic Movies, Three Guys Named Mike chronicles the story of a flight attendant (known in the 1950s as an "airline hostess" or a "stewardess") and three men.
The credits state that the film was "based on the story by Ruth Brooks Flippen, from suggestions made by Ethel 'Pug' Smith." Contemporary publicity states that Smith was a flight attendant for American Airlines; she appeared in a bit part in one scene. Since Jane Wyman, the lead actress, had a high stature, her colleagues consisted of one of MGM's leading actors and two up-and-coming actors. American Airlines provided advertising in the film and allowed the producers of the film to use American Airlines aircraft for no charge; during that time aircraft were considered to be expensive props in films. Some early scenes in the film portrayed the training given at the American Airlines school for
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