Starlift

Starlift (1951)

18 Stars are in it... and more wonders than you can count!

To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.

Date of release
1951-12-14
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Music
Director
Roy Del Ruth

Casting

Interesting facts

Starlift is a 1951 American Warner Bros. Pictures musical film directed by Roy Del Ruth and written by John D. Klorer and Karl Kamb from a story by Klorer, who died before the film was released. The film stars Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Dick Wesson and Ruth Roman. Produced at the inception of the Korean War, Starlift centers on an Air Force flyer's wish to meet a film star who performs with other stars for injured men at the base.

Production

Beginning in 1950, the real Operation Starlift was a program created by Special Services and the Hollywood Coordinating Committee (successor to the Hollywood Victory Committee) to bring film stars to Travis Air Force Base to entertain wounded soldiers from the Korean War.

The flights flew the entertainers from Burbank every Saturday and returned them the following day. Shows performed for departing servicemen would usually last between two and three hours. The stars would then perform for men in the hospital auditorium. Operation Starlift concluded in November 1951 after the program had exhausted its funding.

The film was titled Starlift rather than Operation Starlift to avoid confusion with the titles of other contemporary films such as Operation Haylift and Operation Pacific.

Nearly half of Starlift was filmed on location at Travis Air Force Base.

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