I Wanted Wings is a 1941 American drama film directed by Mitchell Leisen and based on a book by Lieutenant Beirne Lay Jr. The film stars Ray Milland and...
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Arizona (1940), then at Paramount he was in a hugely popular war film, I Wanted Wings (1941) with Ray Milland and Veronica Lake. He did another Western at...
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new girl to play the part of a nightclub singer in a military drama, I Wanted Wings (1941). Hornblow changed the actress's name to Veronica Lake. According...
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making his motion picture debut in Mitchell Leisen's 1941 war movie, I Wanted Wings. In 1946, he played Ernest Hemingway's protagonist Nick Adams in Robert...
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Argentine Nights (1940); Lady with Red Hair (1940) at Warner Bros; and I Wanted Wings (1941), at Paramount. During World War II he served in the United States...
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the defense of the United States in a war many recognized as coming, I Wanted Wings (Spring, 1941);[citation needed] and Diamonds Are Forever, begun 1970...
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forces, especially the U.S. Army Air Corps. Give Us Wings joined 20,000 Men a Year (1939), I Wanted Wings (1941), Flying Cadets (1941) and others of that...
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into Fox's Brigham Young: Frontiersman (1940). He was fourth-billed in I Wanted Wings (1941); then MGM borrowed him to support Robert Taylor in Billy the...
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1941 in film (section I)
Footsteps in the Dark 10 March Flying Wild 21 March The Sea Wolf 26 March I Wanted Wings 28 March Man Made Monster April 1941 4 April The Devil and Miss Jones...
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(uncredited) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) - Young Priest (uncredited) I Wanted Wings (1941) - Cadet (uncredited) Affectionately Yours (1941) - Hospital Intern...
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he was soon engaged as a contract player appearing in such films as I Wanted Wings, Sullivan's Travels and This Gun for Hire . During World War II he reenlisted...
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lead single. However, after hearing the final version of "I Want It That Way," the group wanted to move more maturely by utilizing a mid-tempo track as...
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Aircraft in fiction (section Fokker Dr.I)
Flying Fortress") were featured in the 1941 Paramount Pictures film I Wanted Wings, based on the novel of the same title by 1st Lt. Beirne Lay Jr. In William...
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a full designer for Paramount Pictures. In 1941, his first film was I Wanted Wings, for which he created the look for its star, newcomer Veronica Lake...
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appearing in more action pictures. He starred as a wannabe pilot in I Wanted Wings (1941) with Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, and William Holden. This was...
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autobiographical book about his experiences in pilot training titled I Wanted Wings, published by Harper Brothers in 1937. He was approached by Hollywood...
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Now (1940) - Betty Gilbert Las Vegas Nights (1941) - Norma Jennings I Wanted Wings (1941) - Carolyn Bartlett Buy Me That Town (1941) - Virginia Paradise...
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(voice, uncredited) Meet John Doe (1941) – Photographer (uncredited) I Wanted Wings (1941) – Corporal (uncredited) Barnacle Bill (1941) – Sailor (uncredited)...
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as Corey Lake The Quarterback (1940) as Jimmy Jones and Billy Jones I Wanted Wings (1941) as Tom Cassidy Badmen of Missouri (1941) as Bob Younger Three...
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photographic effects were by John Fulton and the sound effects by John Hall. I Wanted Wings won the Oscar for Special Effects. At the time of its release, this...
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died in 1980. He was buried in Los Angeles National Cemetery. 1941: I Wanted Wings – Montgomery – Co-Pilot (uncredited) 1946: O.S.S. – Trainee (uncredited)...
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flight instructor in Monogram's Wolf Call (1939) and in Paramount's I Wanted Wings (1941) (also appearing in the latter in support of Ray Milland and William...
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he beat himself winning the Academy Award for his work in 1941 on I Wanted Wings with Farciot Edouart against his second nomination for Aloma of the...
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Engineering Effects" to the first Best Picture Oscar winner, the World War I flying drama Wings. Producer David O. Selznick, then production head at RKO Studios...
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September 28, 1940, page 154. Schallert, Edwin (May 27, 1940). "Timely 'I Wanted Wings' Set for Early Shooting: Retrenchment Urge On Quinn Tested for 'City'...
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Grandpa Ed Carson I Want a Divorce (1940) as Grandpa Brokaw Meet John Doe (1941) as Former Bulletin Owner (uncredited) I Wanted Wings (1941) as 'Sandbags'...
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and a Gob (1941) as Recruiting Officer The Penalty (1941) as Craig I Wanted Wings (1941) as Flight Commander The Cowboy and the Blonde (1941) as Gilbert...
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Citizen (1939) The Great McGinty (1940) Rhythm on the River (1940) I Wanted Wings (1941) Champagne for Caesar (1950) Henry Aldrich for President (1941)...
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Civilization (Bob Hilliard and Carl Sigman song) (redirect from Bongo Bongo Bongo I Don't Want to Leave the Congo)
Broadway musical Angel in the Wings, sung by Elaine Stritch. The song is sometimes also known as "Bongo, Bongo, Bongo (I Don't Want to Leave the Congo)", from...
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depicting the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Obława (2012) Miasto 44 (2014) I Wanted Wings (1941) A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941) Keep 'Em Flying (1941) One of Our...
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