Air Hostess (1933 film)

Air Hostess
Theatrical film poster
Directed byAlbert S. Rogell
Written byMilton Raison (adaptation)
Screenplay byMilton Raison
Keene Thompson
Story byGrace Perkins (uncredited)
Produced byMartin Johnson
Osa Johnson
StarringEvalyn Knapp
James Murray
Arthur Pierson
CinematographyJoseph Walker
Elmer Dyer (aerial scenes)
Edited byRichard Cahoon
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • January 15, 1933 (1933-01-15) (United States)
Running time
67 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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.[Note 1] 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!"[2][3][4]

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.[4]) Knapp was being touted as a future star, with a starring role in Sinners' Holiday (1930), but eventually lost her A-status and was relegated to such B-fare as Air Hostess.[citation needed]

  1. ^ "Screenplay info: Air Hostess", Turner Classic Movies; retrieved March 19, 2013.
  2. ^ "Air Hostess (1933)", imdb.com; retrieved March 19, 2013.
  3. ^ Notes: Air Hostess, tcm.com; retrieved March 19, 2013.
  4. ^ a b Santoir, Christian. "Air Hostess", aeromovies.fr, February 9, 2013; retrieved March 19, 2013.(in French)


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