Norma Desmond and Betty Schaefer on the same flight
This movie is corny but has a great cast.
You also have Charlton Heston and Martha Scott, Scott played Heston's mother twice in previous films.
Right! And you also have Heston and "Augusta Summerland," formerly known as Linda Harrison. They're reunited from Planet of the Apes and its sequel Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
He was on Planet Earth the whole time!
That's right.
It's also funny that once again in this film Swanson and Olson have no interaction, just like in "Sunset Blvd".
Also, Myrna Loy and Dana Andrews from BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES. But like Swanson and Olson, they have no interaction.
"May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?"
Too bad Jeanne Crain wasn't in the plane with Dana Andrews (both in ''Hot Rods To Hell'') -she must have missed the flight-and ended up with Heston in ''Skyjacked''headed for Minneapolis'. Well, at least she survived in that one, and even got an unscheduled layover in Moscow.
shareProducer William Frye, Director Jack Smight, executive producer Jennings Lang,actors Ed Nelson and Alan Fudge, and music composer John Cacavas, all worked on a TV film just a year before they made Airport 1975. It was a thriller called Linda, which starred Stella Stevens in the titular (literally and figuratively) role.
Strange thing is Ed Nelson had the much bigger part in Linda and the plot isn't anything about Linda (I was expecting something like Laura). So I guess this explains the many preposterous incidents that take place in Airport 1975.
And......the 2001 Tim Burton reimagined "Planet of the Apes" although sadly, they did not share the screen in that one either.
Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open.
- John Barrymore
I've always thought it must be...interesting? ...to actors and actresses to meet up again on new movies -- work , not just a party -- with former co-stars. So often, cast members make a movie and never see each other again...but sometimes they do. It must have been tough for Swanson and Olsen -- who I would expect TALKED to each other on the Airport 1975 set -- to know that they had last been together on a stone cold classic.
The two actors I always noticed working together again were Anthony Perkins and Martin Balsam. In the classic Psycho(1960) Perkins famously and bloodily stabbed Balsam to death on a staircase in a blockbuster movie. They met again ten years later on Catch 22 (1970) filming in Mexico. (Balsam's Army captain in that movie speaks to Perkins' army chaplain while sitting on the toilet.) Then they met again on "Murder on the Orient Express" in 1974. Was the greeting, "Marty...my old murder victim! How the heck are you?"