For the motorcycle club, see Women in the Wind (motorcycle club).
Women in the Wind
Theatrical film poster
Directed by
John Farrow
Written by
George Bricker (contributing writer) Lawrence Kimble (contributor to treatment)
Screenplay by
Lee Katz Albert DeMond
Based on
Women in the Wind: A Novel of the Women's National Air Derby (1935 novel) by Francis Walton[1]
Produced by
Bryan Foy
Starring
Kay Francis William Gargan Victor Jory
Cinematography
Sidney Hickox
Edited by
Thomas Pratt
Music by
M.K. Jerome
Production company
Warner Bros.
Distributed by
Warner Bros.
Release date
April 15, 1939 (1939-04-15)
Running time
65 min.
Country
United States
Language
English
Women in the Wind is a 1939 film directed by John Farrow and starring Kay Francis, William Gargan and Victor Jory. The plot concerns women pilots competing in the so-called "Powder Puff Derby", an annual transcontinental air race solely for women.[Note 1]
^"Women in the Wind." Abe Books. Retrieved: July 17, 2015.
^Read 1992, p. 11.
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