Fly Away Baby

Fly Away Baby (1937)

She Chased a Man Around the World to Marry Another!

Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.

Date of release
1937-06-19
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 0m
Genres
Adventure, Comedy
Director
Frank McDonald
Collection
Torchy Blane Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Fly-Away Baby is a 1937 American crime-mystery film starring Glenda Farrell as reporter Torchy Blane, along with her detective boyfriend, Steve McBride solving a murder and smuggling case during around-the-world flight.

Production

According to contemporary sources, Dorothy Kilgallen's idea for Fly-Away Baby was based on her own real-life participation in a race around the world by air with two male reporters. The race was featured in her book, Girl Around the World.

Fly-Away Baby was shot in part at the Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, California with the participation of American Airlines. The aircraft seen in the film include the America Airlines Douglas DST-144 and Douglas DC-2 and Pan Am Martin 130 "China Clipper".

Although mainly seen in stock footage from newsreels, the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg departs its hangar in Friedrichshafen, and is later seen in the sky over New York City. Other scenes of an airship are actually the American dirigible USS Akron or Macon above the orchards of California. Interior sets depicting staterooms, lounge and corridors of the Hindenburg were accurate studio mockups,

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