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Amelia is a 2009 biographical film about the aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. The film stars Hilary Swank as Earhart, and co-stars Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston and Joe Anderson. The film was directed by Mira Nair and based on The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell. [2]
The museum is centered around the restored Muriel-- a Lockheed Model 10-E Electra (identical to the plane Earhart flew on her final flight). The museum also features 14 interactive exhibits, including a virtual reality experience. [12] [13] A bronze statue of Amelia Earhart is also on display outside the museum. [14]
Film historians and Earhart scholars consider Flight for Freedom an à clef version of Amelia Earhart's life story, concentrating on the sensational aspects of her disappearance during her 1937 world flight. [3] The film's ending speculated that the main character's disappearance was connected to a secret mission on behalf of the U.S. government.
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Amelia Earhart is seen with her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, the last plane she flew before declared missing at sea. - GL Archive/Alamy Stock Photo Earhart’s mysterious disappearance
Interest in the story of Amelia Earhart, especially with the release of Amelia (2009) led film reviewers to recall the earlier Earhart portrayals. [7] Rosalind Russell had played "an Earhart-esque flier in 1943's Flight for Freedom" and Diane Keaton starred in the 1994 TNT movie Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight. [8]
Amelia Earhart is photographed with her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, the aircraft she used in her attempted flight around the world. Earhart and the plane went missing on July 2, 1937.
Amelia Earhart (1897–1937), pioneering aviator (lost at sea – cenotaph) Warren Samuel Eaton (1891–1966), Colonel and early pilot who built airplanes for Lincoln Beachy; Winfield Bertrum Kinner (1882–1957), a.k.a. Bert Kinner, built "Kinner" airplanes. Amelia Earhart flew a Kinner.