Wings in the Dark is a 1935 motion picture starring Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. Originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, her career prospects improved following her portrayal of Nora Charles...

 and Cary Grant

Cary Grant

Archibald Alexander Leach , better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later took U.S. citizenship...

 focusing on a daring aviatrix and an inspired aviation inventor thrust into an unbearably desperate situation. Wings in the Dark was the first film that Loy and Grant made together, although Loy's biographer Emily Leider says that the film "wastes their talents and prompts an unintentional laugh fest." The movie remains notable as a rare movie depiction of a blind protagonist

Blindness

Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...

 (played by Cary Grant) during the 1930s, and is also known for its accomplished aerial photography.

Nell Shipman

Nell Shipman

Nell Shipman was a Canadian actress, author and screenwriter, producer, director, and animal trainer. She was a Canadian pioneer in early Hollywood. She is best known for her work in James Oliver Curwood stories and for portraying strong, adventurous women...

, one of the writers of the original story "Eyes of the Eagle," which pivoted upon a fictionalized version of Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Mary Earhart was a noted American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first woman to receive the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean...

, whom Shipman knew personally, was extremely disappointed by Myrna Loy's performance and the virtual exclusion of a seeing eye dog

Seeing Eye Dog

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 as one of the main characters. Graham Greene

Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH was an English author, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world...

, in a review, called the film "as sentimental as it is improbable," but "as exciting as it is naive." Wings in the Dark was one of a number of poorly done aviation movies made during the early part of the Depression

Great Depression

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.

The film was directed by James Flood and produced by Arthur Hornblow, Jr.

Arthur Hornblow, Jr.

Arthur Hornblow, Jr. was an American film producer. His father, Arthur Hornblow , was a noted playwright.-Biography:...

Cast

Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. Originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, her career prospects improved following her portrayal of Nora Charles...

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Sheila Mason

Cary Grant

Cary Grant

Archibald Alexander Leach , better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later took U.S. citizenship...

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Ken Gordon

Roscoe Karns

Roscoe Karns

Roscoe Karns was an American actor. He appeared in nearly 150 films between 1915 and 1964.He played the title role in the popular DuMont Television Network series Rocky King, Inside Detective from 1950 to 1954...

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Nick Williams

Hobart Cavanaugh

Hobart Cavanaugh

Hobart Cavanaugh was an American character actor in films and on stage.Born in Virginia City, Nevada, Cavanaugh made his film debut in San Francisco Nights...

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Mac

Dean Jagger

Dean Jagger

Dean Jagger was an Academy Award winning American film actor.-Career:Born Ira Dean Jagger in Columbus Grove, Ohio, Jagger made his film debut in The Woman from Hell with Mary Astor...

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Top Harmon

Russell Hopton

Russell Hopton

Russell Hopton was an American film actor. He appeared in 110 films between 1926 and 1945.He was born in New York, New York and died of an overdose of sleeping pills in North Hollywood, California....

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Jake Brashear

Matt McHugh

Matt McHugh

Matt McHugh was an American film actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1931 and 1955, primarily in small parts.-Career:...

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1st Mechanic

Graham McNamee

Graham McNamee

Graham McNamee was a pioneering broadcaster in American radio, the medium's most recognized national personality in its first international decade....

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Radio Announcer

External links

Wings in the Dark at the Internet Movie Database

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