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	Frank Wead - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wead would have no doubt continued to be an excellent naval aviator, as a squadron commander, had it not been for a tragic accident, when in April of 1926 he broke his neck in a fall and became paralyzed.
		Wead would receive two Academy Award nominations in 1938, one for Best Original Story for "Test Pilot" and a second for Best Screenplay for "The Citadel".
		Wead also wrote for leading magazines (The Saturday Evening Post and The American Magazine), and he was published writer of at least two books, including: "Ceiling Zero" (1936), and "Gales, Ice and Men" (1937).
	us.imdb.com /name/nm0915693/bio (622 words)

	Frank Wead at AllExperts
		In September of 1923 Wead was a member of the United States Navy team that traveled to Cowes England to compete in the Schneider Cup Race (Jacques Schneider Maritime Seaplane Trophy).
		Wead would have no doubt continued to be an excellent naval aviator, as a squadron commander, had it not been for a tragic accident.
		Wead also wrote for leading magazines (The Saturday Evening Post and The American Magazine), and he was published writer of at least two books, including: "Ceiling Zero" (1936), and "Gales, Ice and Men" (1937).
	en.allexperts.com /e/f/fr/frank_wead.htm (610 words)

	Frank Wead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Frank Wilber "Spig" Wead was a U.S. Navy aviator turned screenwriter who...
		Commander Frank Wead U.S.N. / Commander Frank Wilber Wead USN.
		They Were Expendable (1945) (screenplay) (as Frank Wead Comdr.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0915693 (258 words)

	DVD Review: The Wings of Eagles
		Frank “Spig” Wead is a pilot in the Navy.
		Ford knew Frank Wead, in fact he wrote the screenplay for They Were Expendable.
		It seems to me that Wead and Min are not exactly aiming for parents of the year though.
	dvd.monstersandcritics.com /reviews/printer_1174855.php (578 words)

	wingsofeagles
		Wead became a writer and after many rejections was accepted by Hollywood as a screenwriter.
		Maureen O'Hara is Minnie, Wead's beleaguered wife, who embodies all the domestic virtues that scare him off as he chooses the Navy over her and their children.
		Wead keeps saying to himself "I'm gonna move that toe," while carefree Navy mechanic buddy "Jughead" Carson (Dan Dailey) plays the uke and tries to help by being constantly at his bedside.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/wingsofeagles.htm (394 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Wings of Eagles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Wayne stars as Frank Wead, who reveals his leadership skills early in his naval career, at first by proposing that the Navy compete with the Army's announced "Around the World" flight.
		In the meantime, Wead tries to maintain a relationship with his wife Min (Maureen O'Hara) and their two daughters, which isn't helped by his frequent absences.
		Wead even finds success on Broadway and hopes to reunite with Min, although the outbreak of World War II leads him back to the Navy as a strategist.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/w/wingsofeagles.q.shtml (439 words)

	TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An ace flier in WWI and a pioneer of naval aviation between the wars, Wead was also a hard drinker and something of a rabble-rouser.
		Eventually, they attempted to reconcile, but when an accident left Wead paralyzed from the neck down, he ordered his wife (at least in the film) to go live her life and not be held back by caring for him.
		After Pearl Harbor, Wead convinced the Navy to call him back into active duty, and he devised the successful "baby carrier," a small aircraft carrier whose sole purpose was to re-equip larger carriers with planes as they were lost in combat.
	www.tcm.com /thismonth/article.jsp?cid=62546&mainArticleId=138094 (975 words)

	Self-referential movies: Wings Of Eagles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wead's career has an interesting symmetry; he broke his back in a fall in mid-life and turned to writing movies about the kinds of adventures he had previously participated in.
		He's called "John Dodge," and he hires Wead to write "a good movie about [aircraft] carriers." Dodge, played by Ford stalwart Ward Bond, wears the dark glasses, hat and boots that were Ford's standard uniform; he smokes Ford's pipe and has an office outfitted with all of Ford's stuff.
		The Dodge character has several scenes with Wead, scenes that don't really advance the plot but provide an interlude of self-referentiality that, as Sam says, is really striking for a Ford picture.
	www.kinexis.com /moviesseivom/WingsOfEagles.html (1018 words)

	They Were Expendable
		But the drama and essence of the story are most movingly refined in those scenes which compose the pattern of bravery and pathos implicit in the tale.
		Ford, and apparently his scriptwriter, Frank Wead, have a deep and true regard for men who stick to their business for no other purpose than to do their jobs.
		To hold on with dignity and courage, to improvise when resources fail and to face the inevitable without flinching--those are the things which they have shown us how men do.
	www.earlofhollywood.com /TheyWereExpendable.html (592 words)

	Frank Wead - Overview - MSN Movies
		Biography:Before becoming a noted author and screenwriter, "Frank W. Wead" was a distinguished pilot for the U.S. Navy during WWI and was a key force in strengthening the Navy's air corps with technical innovations.
		Wead's writings almost always centered on war and military life.
		The Black Big Bands (1999) The Wings of Eagles (1957) Blaze of Noon (1947) The Beginning or the End (1947) The Hoodlum Saint (1946) They Were Expendable (1945) Destroyer (1943) Dive Bomber (1941)
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	Films T (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fast and fun turn-of-the-century musical teams Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly as baseball players trying to deal with their team's new female owner (Esther Williams).
		Tammy (Debbie Reynolds) lives on a shanty boat in the Mississippi Delta area with her grandfather (Walter Brenan).
		[2:04] Frank Sinatra concludes: [2:05] Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron and Ensemble dance "An American in Paris Ballet" from An American in Paris, 1951
	www.classicmoviemusicals.com /filmst.htm (4102 words)

	Frank Wead
		Paralyzed as a result of an accident, he turned to writing novels, stories, and screenplays, usually concerning war and the men of the armed forces.
		John Ford's THE WINGS OF EAGLES (1957) is a tribute to "Spig" Wead's courage.
		The film's script was based on Wead's writings, mainly his biographical history Wings for Men.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho/wead_f.htm (114 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Wings of Eagles: Video: John Ford,John Wayne,Dan Dailey,Maureen O'Hara,Tige Andrews,Ward Bond,Danny ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Of particular interest, plotwise, is the depictation of her as a boozy, chainsmoking modern gal, as well as the lengthy exploration of Wead's struggle to overcome a severe physical disability, which kind of undercuts the smothering machismo of the pre-feminist military world.
		Later, LT Wead led the U.S. Navy Schneider Cup Team to England and brought this famous cup to America aboard S.S. LEVIATHAN, October 1923.
		CDR Wead was relieved from active duty 21 July 1944, at Fleet Air, Alameda, California, where his last naval boss was RADM Pownall (Commander Air Force, Pacific Fleet).
	www.amazon.ca /Wings-Eagles-John-Ford/dp/6301978595 (1608 words)

	Oldies.com : Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Label: WEAD WEAD 645787 09361V vinyl 45rpm they might be giants christmas cards tannenbaum wead O...
		Description by Oldies.com: Cmdr. Frank "Spig" Wead was a pioneer aviator, renowned screenwriter...
		John Ford's biopic of his friend Frank "Spig" Wead stars John Wayne as the decorated naval hero who...
	www.oldies.com /search/keywords.cfm?keywords=wead (288 words)

	The Wings of Eagles DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The subject is Frank 'Spig' Wead, Naval aviation legend turned Hollywood screenwriter, who had written Ford's very good 1932 movie Air Mail and his magnificent WWll elegy They Were Expendable (1945).
		Ford was fond of exploring the theme of 'victory in defeat.' Wead's life was made to order for that.
		Frank Wead was that type of person and so was John Wayne.
	outdoor.greatestgiftstore.com /the-wings-of-eagles,B000F0UUJQ_i.htm (2429 words)

	The New Pictures -- Monday, Mar. 11, 1957 -- Page 2 -- TIME
		For the better part of five years he lay helplessly in bed, driving the life "back into his limbs by sheer force of determination, until at last, with the help of two canes, he was able to walk.
		In World War II Wead wangled active duty, hobbled about the flight decks of the Pacific with his neck in a steel brace, and won the Legion of Merit for his theory of the supporting carrier, a major contribution to Pacific strategy.
		Obviously, Frank Wead's story is worth telling—but hardly the way Ford and Co. tell it.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,824770-2,00.html (607 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Test Pilot is a 1938 film that tells the story of a test pilot (Clark Gable) and his wife (Myrna Loy), who unsuccessfully try to keep their best friend (a chronically gum-chewing Spencer Tracy), another test pilot, from drinking.
		Test Pilot was written by Howard Hawks, Vincent Lawrence, John Lee Mahin, Frank Wead and Waldemar Young, and directed by Victor Fleming.
		Based on a story written by Frank Wead (a writer later portrayed by John Wayne in John Ford's The Wings of Eagles).
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Test_Pilot_(film) (112 words)

	Viewer's Request Festival
		As a consequence, The Hoodlum Saint (1946), directed by Norman Taurog from a script by Frank Wead, was not popular with moviegoers of its era.
		The screenwriter of The Hoodlum Saint, Frank "Spig" Wead, was considered a national hero.
		Having become a decorated flying ace in WWI, Wead later became a good friend, collaborator and inspiration to director John Ford, writing scripts for Ford's Air Mail (1932) and They Were Expendable (1945), as well as numerous other screenplays.
	alt.tcm.turner.com /SPECIAL_THEME/00/11/viewers_rescue.htm (1464 words)

	Wings
		In February she visited Navy installations and ships to help promote her new picture, “The Wings of Eagles” the life story of Frank Wead, a pioneer of carrier aviation.
		Her promotion tour started early in February, when she visited the yearly convention of Naval Aviation Cadet recruiting officers at the Lafayette Hotel in Long Beach, Calif. They named her “Miss Naval Aviation of 1957.” She was honored at a banquet, which concluded the convention of 200 naval aviation cadet procurement officers.
		Lila Berman, daughter of the late Cmdr. Frank W. “Spig” Wead; and her two children, John, 13, and Maria, 12.
	www.users.uswest.net /~aknot/Wings.htm (1670 words)

	GoHastings.com Item Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CEILING ZERO is a fast-paced, unsentimental adventure story based on a play by Frank Wead, featuring a lively performance by Cagney and characters who are tough-minded professionals--roles typical of director Howard Hawks's films.
		CEILING ZERO was based on a stage play by Frank Wead, whose life story was the basis for the film THE WINGS OF EAGLES.
		Directed by Howard Hawks and based on a play by Frank Wead, CEILING ZERO is a fast-paced adventure about the tough, exciting, early days of flying.
	www.gohastings.com /Catalog/Item/Item.asp?prodid=33030924 (289 words)

	JR.com: The Wings of Eagles (1957) - DVD in Movies: Action-Adventure: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Ford's biopic of his friend Frank "Spig" Wead stars John Wayne as the decorated naval hero who went on to become the screenwriter of such films as Ford's THEY WERE EXPENDABLE and Howard Hawks's CEILING ZERO.
		After World War I, Frank strives to demonstrate the potential of seaplanes for use in warfare to the navy by winning a number of competitions.
		Ashamed of his condition, Frank refuses to accept consolation or help from his wife or family and will allow only his military mates, Jughead Carson (Dan Dailey) and John Price (Ken Curtis), to aid his long rehabilitation.
	www.jr.com /xs-the-wings-of-eagles-dvd-in-movies-action-adventure--pi!4103317.html (368 words)

	AMCTV.com SHOW - The Wings of Eagles
		This rarely screened Ford drama is among his most deeply felt, personal pictures.
		Frank "Spig" Wead (Wayne) was a screenwriter (Dirigible, Ceiling Zero, They Were Expendable) and one of the fathers of naval aviation.
		A man of action obsessed with his naval career, he was less successful sustaining a family life, eventually alienating wife O'Hara and unable to reach her even as their child dies.
	www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=3744-1-1 (77 words)

	Navy and Air Force Movies and War Film Videos and DVDs online
		Wead's story was told in John Ford's 1957 "The Wings of Eagles" with John Wayne playing the part.
		This film will bring tears and some fond memories to those pioneer naval aviation wives who are still around and had experienced it all- tough, hardened gals them all.
		John Ford did the movie as a tribute to Spig Wead a fellow naval friend and screenwriter.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.com /videos/warfilms.html (5368 words)

	The Flying Fleet \| Cast & Crew \| MTV Movies
		Flying Fleet was one of the first script-writing efforts of Lt. Commander Frank "Spig" Wead, who came to Hollywood after the crippling accident that ended his naval career (Wead's life story was later romanticized in the 1957 John Ford picture The Wings of Eagles).
		Evidently, Wead's favorite story involved two military men who have a falling out over a beautiful woman.
		The rate of attrition amongst the six would-be flyboys is astonishing, and as a result only Tommy and Steve are able to complete the training process.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/95062/castcrew.jhtml (227 words)

	Comic creator: Russell Keaton
		In 1939, Russell Keaton got his pilot's license and launched his own strip: 'Flyin' Jenny' for the Bell Syndicate.
		After a while, he handed over the writing to Frank Wead and Glen Chaffin and in 1943, when he became a full-time flying instructor, he turned the art duties of the strip over to his assistant Marc Swayze.
		On February 13, 1945, Keaton died unexpectedly of acute leukemia, at the age of only 35.
	www.lambiek.net /artists/k/keaton_russell.htm (137 words)

	Everson Notes, Huff 7/28/59
		(Wead also worked on They Were Expendable, and was himself the subject of a recent Ford biopic, The Wings of Eagles).
		There is comparatively little background music (though it's used most effectively in Russell Hopton's death scene), but in the photography (there are some beautiful compositions) and in the use of familiar supporting players (Francis Ford, Jack Pennick), Ford's handiwork is more apparent.
		Wead, by the way, got a solo credit for dialogue, even though the scenario credit is shared with Dale Van Every; on the strength of this film at least, Wead appears to have been quite a pungent writer.
	www.nyu.edu /projects/wke/notes/huff/huff_590728.htm (1783 words)

	ePier - CELING ZERO FROM THE PLAY BY FRANK WEAD WARNER BROS 1936
		Your bid is a legally binding contract to purchase the item from the seller, only place a bid If you're serious about buying the item.
		Up for auction is this hard back book (Celing Zero) Directed by Howard Hawks from the play by Frank Wead Illustrations from the photoplay produced by Warner Brothers.
		Your bid is a legally binding contract to purchase the item from the seller, so only place a bid If you're serious about buying the item.
	www.epier.com /biddingform.asp?506204 (163 words)

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