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Wing and a Prayer, The Story of Carrier X (also known as Queen of the Flat Tops and Torpedo Squadron Eight) is a black-and-white 1944 war film about the heroic crew of an American aircraft carrier in the desperate early days of World War II in the Pacific theater, directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Don Ameche, Dana Andrews and William Eythe.
The Johnsons started The Song Spinners to perform background vocals on a radio show called "The Wayside Cottage". During the 1942–44 musicians' strike, Decca Records hired Margaret to arrange and perform vocal accompaniment for Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, the Dick Haymes hit "You'll Never Know" and "Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer ...
Wing and a Prayer: Henry Hathaway: Don Ameche, Dana Andrews, Cedric Hardwicke: War: 20th Century Fox; nominated for Best Screenplay Winged Victory: George Cukor: Lon McCallister, Jeanne Crain, Edmond O'Brien, Judy Holliday: War drama: 20th Century Fox: The Woman in the Window: Fritz Lang: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey: Film ...
The song was recorded by the Song Spinners [5] for Decca Records, reaching number one on the Billboard pop chart on July 2, 1943. [6]"Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer" was the only song with a war connection to appear in the top twenty best-selling songs of 1943 in the United States (although record sales in this period were heavily affected by the first Petrillo recording ban).
The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, ... Wing and a Prayer, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Dana Andrews and Don Ameche;
No redemptive stone is left unturned in “On a Wing and a Prayer,” Sean McNamara’s formulaic dramatization of the true events surrounding civilian Doug White’s 2009 emergency landing of a ...
Wing and a Prayer, The Story of Carrier X is a 1944 war film. Wing and a Prayer may also refer to: Film and television. A Wing and a Prayer , a 2015 ...
He played the juvenile lead in Wilson (1944), Fox's prestige picture of the year; it was a box office disappointment but Eythe's casting in the movie indicated the regard with which he was held at the studio. [5] Eythe was one of the three leads in a war film, Wing and a Prayer (1944), directed by Henry Hathaway, alongside Don Ameche and Dana ...