Air Hostess (1933 film)
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. 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!"
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| Directed by | Albert S. Rogell |
| Written by | Milton Raison (adaptation) |
| Screenplay by | Milton Raison Keene Thompson |
| Story by | Grace Perkins (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Martin Johnson Osa Johnson |
| Starring | Evalyn Knapp James Murray Arthur Pierson |
| Cinematography | Joseph Walker Elmer Dyer (aerial scenes) |
| Edited by | Richard Cahoon |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 67 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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.) 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.