Amelia Earhart (miniseries)

Amelia Earhart is a 1976 twopart television miniseries starring Susan Clark and John Forsythe and directed by George Schaefer . Unlike more recent depictions of Earharts 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 childrens orphanage, her interest and exploits in aviation, her marriage to publisher G.P. Putnam and her famous disappearance in 1937. The miniseries was the first dramatization of Earharts life and costarred a parade of wellknown actors of the time.

In 1928, while in employ at the orphanage, Earhart is invited to become the first woman ever to fly the Atlantic in an aircraft, the Fokker Friendship, albeit as a passenger, while pilot Wilmer Stultz Jack Colvin and copilot Lou Gordon Steve Kanaly are at the controls. That same year she flies her Avro Avian biplane in a coasttocoast, stopandgo flight where some southern locals recognize her from the transatlantic Friendship flight. Her marriage to media tycoon George Palmer Putnam John Forsythe and a series of recordbreaking flights, propel her to international fame as a longdistance flyer. Despite her open and frequently strained relationship with Putnam, she develops a close relationship with his son David Lance Kerwin. With help from a close friend and adviser, Paul Mantz Stephen Macht, Earhart plans her longest flight ever, a roundtheworld attempt in 1937. The disappearance of Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan Bill Vint during the last stage of the flight, leads to a massive search effort that eventually proves fruitless, but solidifies Earhart as an aviation icon.The film dramatized Earharts life, but refuses to speculate on the cause of Ms. Earharts disappearance during a roundtheworld trip in 1937 however despite the lack of speculation the clues that do exist are presented in full. Mainly staying close to the historical record, one departure is portraying stunt pilot Paul Mantz as her purported lover, a longstanding rumor that has never been substantiated. Sobieskis screenplay drew on her own experiences as a licensed pilot. ........

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