Women in the Wind

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Eve Arden, Sheila Bromley, and Kay Francis in Women in the Wind (1939)

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA pilot enters an aviation race in order to win enough money to pay for her brother's medical treatment, and encounters difficulty with a rival pilot.A pilot enters an aviation race in order to win enough money to pay for her brother's medical treatment, and encounters difficulty with a rival pilot.A pilot enters an aviation race in order to win enough money to pay for her brother's medical treatment, and encounters difficulty with a rival pilot.

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Anecdotes
After being the highest paid star in Hollywood in the mid-30s for Warner Brothers, Kay Francis was displaced by Bette Davis as queen of the lot. In her last years at the studio she was given B-pictures like this one, and her contract was not renewed. After this picture, her last for Warners, the studio pointedly didn't host the usual wrap party for cast and crew.

Gaffes
When Johnnie turns on the radio on his desk the music begins to play instantly. The tube type radios of this time period had to warm up, usually for 10 or more seconds, before they began producing sound.

Citations
[first lines]
[a biplane roars into the frame. Fade to the front page of the fictional New York Recorder: "ACE BOREMAN DUE SOON, CIRCLING THE WORLD WITHIN EIGHTY HOURS; FLYER NEARS NEW YORK; RECORD WELL IN HAND; SHIP STILL GOES WELL; Ace Boreman's world-circling airplane, Polly, passed over the liner Normandie at 8:00 o'clock..." Closeup on Ace and Stuffy in the cockpit, cut to a view of the southern tip of Manhattan, and back to the cockpit]
Ace Boreman: There she is!
'Stuffy' McInnes: [blankly] What "she" are you talkin' about? Don't tell me you see a dame this high up.
Ace Boreman: [laughing] I'm talking about New York.
'Stuffy' McInnes: [deadpan] Oh. Well, don't put skirts on it.
Ace Boreman: I guess there'll only be one girl in your life, eh Stuffy?
'Stuffy' McInnes: [puzzled] Yeah? Who's that?
Ace Boreman: This one: Polly.
'Stuffy' McInnes: Polly's different. She can't talk back.
[Polly rolls out of view as the scene fades to a ticker tape parade. Ace and Stuffy are in the back seat of an open touring car, waving at the throng, and covered with streamers and confetti]
Ace Boreman: I bet you never got this many cheers when you were a fighter, eh Stuffy?
'Stuffy' McInnes: Nah, all I ever heard was the referee countin'
Ace Boreman: And half the time you couldn't hear that.
Ace Boreman: [Stuffy gives him a dirty look] Wave to the free people, Stuffy.

Bandes originales
You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
(1938) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Played on Johnnie's radio

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5/10

Forget about it being a B movie - and skip the first 40 minutes

Most of six previous reviewers - yes, only six - spend time bemoaning that this is only a B movie, and suggest that the shorter length made it a waste of Kay Francis' time and talent. Unless you're a big KF fan - I'm not - that shouldn't bother you here. No, she doesn't get to wear a lot of extravagant gowns, and her character is not glamorous. If that's what you watch a Kay Francis movie for, this will really disappoint you.

The first 40 of the just past 60 minutes are uninteresting melodrama, based largely on one of the most annoying devices in movie dramadom: the character who doesn't finish their explanation of some misunderstanding, allowing that misunderstanding to continue for another character. Suffice it to say that it's about two women who love, or loved, one man, and the jealousy that results.

The last 20 minutes is the air race in biplanes solo-piloted by women (Francis and her rival, Sheila Bromley) from California to Cleveland. I was hoping that somewhere in there Warner Brothers might have used some real female aviators from the era (yes, aviatrixes, or whatever the plural is). Evidently not. More's the shame.

We do get to see some period bi-planes, which is mildly interesting.

The race ends in Cleveland, where we see mountains in the distance behind the airport. I wonder what became of those mountains??? Guess who wins the race.