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Air Hostess is a american film of genre Drama directed by Albert S. Rogell released in USA on 15 january 1933 with Evalyn Knapp

Air Hostess (1933)

Air Hostess
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Released in USA 15 january 1933
Length 1h7
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating58% 2.9102052.9102052.9102052.9102052.910205

Air Hostess is a 1933 American Pre-Code aviation-themed melodrama based on a serial published in a 1919 True Story Magazine article called Air Hostess by Grace Perkins, also known as Dora Macy. Director Albert Rogell who had moved from shorts to B-films, had been interested in aviation having already helmed a similar feature, The Flying Marine (1929). In Air Hostess, the studio had attempted to merge flying and romance. Advertising stressed, "A date in the skies ... a rendezvous in the heavens...where love zooms with thrill after thrill ... but finds a happy landing!"

Evalyn Knapp plays a TWA air hostess attracted to a grandstanding pilot, despite the better advice of the blind mechanic and other employees who watch over her. (In reality, TWA did not initiate the use of air hostesses until 1935, when the Douglas DC-2 was introduced.) Knapp was being touted as a future star, with a starring role in Sinner's Holiday (1930), but eventually lost her A-status and was relegated to such B-fare as Air Hostess.

James Murray appears here five years after his triumph in The Crowd. Another notorious drinker and former baseball star Mike Donlin appears as "Mike", a few months before his fatal heart attack.

Synopsis

In World War I, pilot Bob King is shot and killed in France. His friends Ted "Lucky" Hunter (James Murray) and Pa Kearns (J.M. Kerrigan) pledge to look after his daughter, Kitty (Evalyn Knapp). Years later, after the war, Kearns, now blind, works at an airport as an engine expert while Kitty is a TWA stewardess. Her father's friends still look after her as meddling chaperones.

Actors

Evalyn Knapp

(Kitty King)James Murray

(Ted Hunter)Jane Darwell

(Ma Kearny)J. M. Kerrigan

(Pop Kearny)Thelma Todd

(Mrs. Sylvia C. Carleton)
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