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6.7/10   22 votes
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Writer:
Frank Wead (writer)
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Release Date:
19 February 1939 (USA) more
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Plot:
Flyer enters a cross-country aerial derby, becomes rival to a wealthy society flyer, competes in parachute jumps and has love affairs. more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Alice Faye ... Trixie Lee

Constance Bennett ... Gerry Lester
Nancy Kelly ... Lois Allen
Joan Davis ... Babe Dugan
Charles Farrell ... Bud

Jane Wyman ... Alabama
Kane Richmond ... Lt. Dick 'Tex' Price
Wally Vernon ... Chick
Joan Valerie ... Sunny
Edward Norris ... Speed Allen
J. Anthony Hughes ... Al Moore
Harry Davenport ... T.P. Lester
Mary Gordon ... Mrs. Lee
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Robert Allen ... Charlie (scenes deleted)
Eddie Dunn ... Eddie, Mechanic (scenes deleted)
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Runtime:
84 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

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"Go In and Out the Window" (music by Lew Pollack, lyrics by Walter Bullock), sung by Alice Faye, was cut from the film. Miss Faye's prerecording still exists. more
Quotes:
Bud: Say, don't you know better than to smoke around gasoline?
Babe Dugan: Oh, don't be so superstitious!
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Soundtrack:
Are You in the Mood for Mischief? more

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9 out of 9 people found the following review useful.
Entertaining Little Soaper, 9 October 2007
8/10
Author: Futura-2 from Here

Quite a change of pace for an Alice Faye film. Gone are the glorious gowns and exotic locales, but instead we find our Miss Faye as an aviatrix, trying to make ends meet and win the Cleveland Air Races. Her arch rival is the society belle Gerry Lester, played with an arched eyebrow by Constance Bennett.

The performances are a bit overwrought, but that's part of the fun. Faye only gets one song in the final cut, but it's a great sultry number called "Are You in the Mood for Mischief?" Throw in an awkward slap fight in the powder room, a dash of tragedy, and you've got a fun cinematic soapie/tearjerker/stand up and cheer kind of film.

Basically an A-picture that plays like a B, with all the entertaining trappings that implies.

Joan Davis is great fun as the comic relief. Nice rainy-Saturday entertainment.

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