Hilary flies away with Amelia She was, for a time, the most famous woman in the world, even, in the 1930s, more famous than Eleanor Roosevelt. She was then and for all time, Amelia Earhart, (the toothsome Hilary Swank) the daring, boyish, aviatrix, adventurer and first woman to cross the Atlantic on wings. In "Amelia," directed by Mira Nair ("Monsoon Wedding," "Namesake,") Ronald Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan, have forged a basic screenplay largely taken from two books, "East to The Dawn" and "The Sound of Wings." It cements itself to the story of Amelia and publisher and egocentric salesman G. Putnam, whose company published the Lindbergh story. We get all the escapades, the luck and loves, the near disasters, ticker-tape parades and finally, the last hours of her life, when she and her navigator Fred Noonan make a run at a round-the- world flight and disappear into the murky waters of the Pacific. There have been many legends grown up around Amelia and that disappearance on July 2, 1937. There were clues found on various small atolls that might have shown that she and Noonan survived the initial crash, but it all amounted to little.
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