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Saw part of this great movie this AM on Turner classic.They fly those F3F "Flying Barrel" aircraft. Red Skelton appears in a small role in Flight Command, his third movie.
Flight Command was shot on location at a major Navy base in San Diego, California, with the full cooperation of the Navy's Air Corps, which would become standard practice for all branches of the service in the production of World War II movies. This top gun of a film stars Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey,
Flight Command also introduced its star, Robert Taylor, to a favorite new hobby. A biography of the actor's wife, [Barbara] Stanwyck by Axel Madsen, noted that "for his navy ensign role Bob decided to take flying lessons. He found soaring into the air from Burbank airport liberating and exhilarating and soon began spending every spare moment at airstrips with instructors, flyers, and "hangar jocks," as general aviation enthusiasts were called." This was particularly distressing to Stanwyck who hated to fly. Taylor's interest in this new pastime got so obsessive that, at one point, his MGM bosses encouraged him to see the studio psychiatrist. Taylor refused to give up flying, though, and when the US entered World War II, he joined the United States Navy Air Corps despite major resistance from MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer who feared for his star's safety. Taylor ended up serving as a flying instructor for the Navy for the reminder of the war.
Flight Command was shot on location at a major Navy base in San Diego, California, with the full cooperation of the Navy's Air Corps, which would become standard practice for all branches of the service in the production of World War II movies. This top gun of a film stars Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey,
Flight Command also introduced its star, Robert Taylor, to a favorite new hobby. A biography of the actor's wife, [Barbara] Stanwyck by Axel Madsen, noted that "for his navy ensign role Bob decided to take flying lessons. He found soaring into the air from Burbank airport liberating and exhilarating and soon began spending every spare moment at airstrips with instructors, flyers, and "hangar jocks," as general aviation enthusiasts were called." This was particularly distressing to Stanwyck who hated to fly. Taylor's interest in this new pastime got so obsessive that, at one point, his MGM bosses encouraged him to see the studio psychiatrist. Taylor refused to give up flying, though, and when the US entered World War II, he joined the United States Navy Air Corps despite major resistance from MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer who feared for his star's safety. Taylor ended up serving as a flying instructor for the Navy for the reminder of the war.
