Amelia Earhart (1976)

Directed by

George Schaefer

Genre

biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 30m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This TV film traces Amelia Earhart's life from childhood through her aviation career and marriage. It shows her early influences and her rise as a pilot before her famous disappearance.

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What happens

Amelia Earhart is a 1976 American biographical drama television film directed by George Schaefer and written by Carol Sobieski. It stars Susan Clark as Amelia Earhart, and John Forsythe as her husband, George P. Putnam. Unlike more recent depictions of Earhart's life, this film makes an attempt to cover her entire life from her childhood on a Kansas farm, her nursing during World War I, an early boyfriend, employment at a Boston children's orphanage, her interest and exploits in aviation, her marriage to Putnam, and her famous disappearance in 1937. The film was the first dramatization of Earhart's life and co-starred a parade of well-known actors of the time and originally premiered on NBC Monday Night at the Movies on October 25, 1976. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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