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I Wanted Wings
Theatrical poster
Directed byMitchell Leisen
Screenplay bySig Herzig
Beirne Lay Jr.
Richard Maibaum
Story byEleanore Griffin
Frank Wead
Based onbook I Wanted Wings
by Lt. Beirne Lay Jr.
Produced byArthur Hornblow Jr.
StarringRay Milland
William Holden
Veronica Lake
CinematographyLeo Tover
Edited byHugh Bennett
Music byVictor Young
Production
company
Paramount Pictures
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • March 26, 1941 (1941-03-26)
Running time
135 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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]

  1. ^ "Notes: I Wanted Wings." Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved: September 11, 2014.
  2. ^ "Cinderell Girl of '41". Chicago Daily Tribune. 23 February 1941. p. 3.
  3. ^ Lenburg 2001, p. 33.
  4. ^ Weil, Martin. "Veronica Lake, Ex-Actress, Dies." Washington Post, July 8, 1973, p. C8.


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