Flight Angels (1940)

Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary Norvell and Nan Hudson, Graves persuades ... See full summary »

Director:

Lewis Seiler

Writers:

Maurice Leo (screen play), Jerry Wald (original story),

Stars:

Virginia Bruce, Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Virginia Bruce	...	Mary Norvell
Dennis Morgan	...	Chick Farber
Wayne Morris	...	Artie Dixon
Ralph Bellamy	...	Bill Graves
Jane Wyman	...	Nan Hudson
John Litel	...	Dr. Barclay
Margot Stevenson	...	Rita
Dorothea Kent	...	Mabel
John Ridgely	...	Lt. Parsons
Lucile Fairbanks	...	Thelma
Maris Wrixon	...	Bonnie
Jan Clayton	...	Jane Morrow
Lynn Merrick	...	Marilyn (as Marilyn Merrick)
Phyllis Hamilton	...	Phyllis
Carol Hughes	...	Texas

Storyline

Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing. Aided by Mary Norvell and Nan Hudson, Graves persuades Chick to take a job as teacher in the school for airline hostesses, and Chick and Mary get married. He learns that the Army is going to test a stratosphere plane that he and Artie Dixon designed and feels that he should make the first flight but permission is refused.

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Plot Keywords:

airline | teacher | eyesight | pilot | doctor | 

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Taglines:

Women Are TOUGH Angels... They Can Handle Anything That Flies... Except A Pilot!

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Genres:

Romance | Comedy | Drama

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Certificate:

TV-G

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 May 1940 (USA)

Also Known As:

Flight Eight

Filming Locations:

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros

Technical Specs

Runtime:

74 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Sonny Bupp is supposedly in this movie as "Boy" but was not seen.

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Goofs

When the passengers are entering the plane at the beginning of the film, the door says the aircraft is named "Flagship Illinois." However, when the same plane begins to taxi from the gate the name painted on the nose is "Flagship Tennessee." When the passengers are debarking, the door says the plane has again become the "Flagship Illinois."

User Reviews

Enjoyable B Film

Enjoyed this 1940 film starring Virginia Bruce, Mary Norvell) and Jane Wyman, (Nan Hudson) was are American Airlines Stewardesses and are Flight Angeles who fly from Points A to B to C & D. The pilots are Dennis Morgan, (Chick Farber) and Wayne Morris, (Artie Dixon) who have a good time with all the stewardesses and plenty of laughs. The stewardesses are a rough bunch of gals who can stand up to any man and between their flights they are gossiping and fighting with each other which makes for some good comedy scenes. Chick Farber works in between flights on a super secret aircraft as a test pilot and is married to Mary Norvell and the couple get along just fine. One day Chick decides to take this special aircraft up in the sky for a test flight and runs into different problems which changes the direction of this film and causes Mary & Chick to break up their marriage. This is a very entertaining B Film and it was great seeing how young Jane Wyman looked in this picture, Jane was once married to President Ronald Reagan. Enjoy.