I Wanted Wings | |
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Directed by | Mitchell Leisen |
Screenplay by | Sig Herzig Beirne Lay Jr. Richard Maibaum |
Story by | Eleanore Griffin Frank Wead |
Based on | book I Wanted Wings by Lt. Beirne Lay Jr. |
Produced by | Arthur Hornblow Jr. |
Starring | Ray Milland William Holden Veronica Lake |
Cinematography | Leo Tover |
Edited by | Hugh Bennett |
Music by | Victor Young |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 135 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,262,454.87[1] or $1,050,000[2] |
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 William Holden. The supporting cast includes Wayne Morris, Brian Donlevy, Constance Moore and Veronica Lake. I Wanted Wings features Lake's first major film role. Her career took off shortly thereafter; the same year, she starred in Sullivan's Travels.[3] Lake would become one of the most popular and successful actresses of the early 1940s.[N 1]
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