--- title: 'Ladies Courageous (1944)' type: 'film' director: 'John Rawlins' released: '1944-01-01' runtime_minutes: 88 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/ladies-courageous-1944' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036529/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Ladies Courageous (1944) 1944 · 88 min · Drama · United States ## Synopsis Ladies Courageous is a 1944 war film based on the novel Looking For Trouble (1941) by Virginia Spencer Cowles. Directed by John Rawlins, the film stars Loretta Young and Geraldine Fitzgerald. It tells the story of the paramilitary Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron formed in the United States during World War II. Film historians and scholars consider Ladies Courageous an à-clef story of famed aviator Jacqueline Cochran and test pilot Nancy Harkness Love's work to mobilize women pilots to contribute to the war effort. ## Credits - **Director:** [John Rawlins](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-rawlins) - **Screenplay:** [Doris Gilbert](https://cinepixo.com/people/doris-gilbert) - **Original Music Composer:** [Dimitri Tiomkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/dimitri-tiomkin) - **Producer:** [Walter Wanger](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-wanger) - **Director of Photography:** [Hal Mohr](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-mohr) - **Editor:** [Philip Cahn](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-cahn) ## Cast - [Diana Barrymore](https://cinepixo.com/people/diana-barrymore) - [Geraldine Fitzgerald](https://cinepixo.com/people/geraldine-fitzgerald) - [Samuel S. Hinds](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuel-s-hinds) - [Janet Shaw](https://cinepixo.com/people/janet-shaw) - [Evelyn Ankers](https://cinepixo.com/people/evelyn-ankers) - [Anne Gwynne](https://cinepixo.com/people/anne-gwynne) - [Richard Fraser](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-fraser) - [June Vincent](https://cinepixo.com/people/june-vincent) - [David Bruce](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-bruce) - [Frank Jenks](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-jenks) - [Loretta Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/loretta-young) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/ladies-courageous-1944 Film facts: Wikidata (Q6469485); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.