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3 unusual facts about Flight for Freedom


Flight for Freedom

Flight for Freedom was produced by RKO, whose CEO, Floyd Odlum, was married to Jacqueline Cochran, one of Earhart's close friends and a renowned aviator in her own right.

Film historians and Earhart scholars consider Flight for Freedom an "a-clef" version of the Amelia Earhart life story concentrating on the sensational aspects of her disappearance during her 1937 world flight.

Other characters are loosely drawn from real life, such as Earhart confidant and instructor, Paul Mantz as well as Fred Noonan, albeit in the role of pilot Randy Britton.



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