Women in the Wind
A pilot enters an aviation race in order to win enough money to pay for her brother's medical treatment, and encounters difficulty with a rival pilot.
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"Only a couple years before this film was made, Kay Francis was the highest paid and most prestigious actress at Warner Brothers. However, with the improving stature of Bette Davis in recent years, Warners decided to cut Francis loose--she was just too expensive in their eyes to justify keeping her. So here we have Kay at the end of her Warner contract consigned to star in a B-movie--my how the mighty have fallen! Ironically, she was now making the same type films David had been making when Francis was in her heyday. Soon after finishing this film, Francis landed at poverty row studio Monogram ..."
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After being the highest paid star in Hollywood in the mid-30s for Warner Brothers, Kay Francis was displaced by Bette Davis as queen of the lot. In her last years at the studio she was given B-pictures like this one, and her contract was not renewed. After this picture, her last for Warners, the studio pointedly didn't host the usual wrap party for cast and crew.
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A pilot enters an aviation race in order to win enough money to pay for her brother's medical treatment, and encounters difficulty with a rival pilot.