Never one to stay typecast, Rosalind Russell followed three years of prime comedy roles (The Women, His Girl Friday, My sister Eileen and more) into the wild blue yonder of Flight for Freedom, an ambitious drama reverberating with world war II-era heroism and inspired by a real-life legend. Playing "flyer's flyer" Tonie Carter, a competitive aviatrix loosely modeled after Amelia Earhart, she indomitably pushes the aerial envelope, wingi
