Only Angels Have Wings is a 1939 American adventure romantic drama film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, and is based on a story written by Hawks.
Theatrical release poster
Jean Arthur as Bonnie Lee
Promotional photo of Richard Barthelmess, Cary Grant and Thomas Mitchell
The Travel Air 6000 airliner was prominently featured against a backdrop of the Rocky Mountains, standing in for the Andes Mountains.
Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who is not a household name." Roger Ebert called Hawks "one of the greatest American directors of pure movies, and a hero of auteur critics because he found his own laconic values in so many different kinds of genre material." He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Sergeant York (1941) and earned the Honorary Academy Award in 1974.
Hawks in the 1940s
Poster for the comedy Fig Leaves (1926), one of the few early films Hawks valued positively later in his life.
A Girl in Every Port poster
Howard Hawks in 1929 or 1930