• 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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    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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    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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    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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    Young Lions (1958) I Wanted Wings (1941) We Were Soldiers (2002) Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) What Price Glory (1952) Windtalkers (2002) Wings (1927) Wild America...
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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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    (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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    experience. He would have another uncredited part in the 1941 production of I Wanted Wings. The German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, signaled the opening...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Aviator on 17 April 1920; his wife, Minnie "Min" Wead, pinned his golden wings to his uniform. On Saturday, 5 June 1920, Lieutenant Wead was appointed...
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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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    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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    he cannot find a reason to dismiss poesy: They faded, and, forsooth! I wanted wings:     O folly! What is Love? and where is it? And for that poor Ambition...
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