He gets an offer of money by Lillian, if she can dance in his show. I have to give this film an eight simply because The Berry Brothers appeared in it (I love them - what incredible talent) which was pretty unusual for a 1940's "white" film, AND also because of the incredible, breathtaking, amazingly choreographed and executed dance sequences at the end of the film.The film also has sublime bits throughout, such as the tap dances that includes Eleanor Powell tap-dancing with "Blackie," a captivating black and white terrier-mix dog, "Miss Deadpan" (Virginia O'Brien) who delivers her own style of comedic twists to the songs she sings in the film and, of course, Robert Young and Ann Sothern contribute their own charm to enrich the film.TIVO the film and fast-forward to the song and dance numbers - they are worth the wait! Sgt. This recording of "Oh, Lady Be Good!" Harold J. Ripslinger, "Body and wallets lie among 200-foot dunes" (, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lady_Be_Good_(aircraft)&oldid=1012031286, Aviation accidents and incidents in Libya, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 14 March 2021, at 06:06. The mostly intact wreckage, and evidence showing that one engine was still operating at the time of impact, suggests the aircraft gradually lost altitude in a very shallow descent, reached the flat, open desert floor, and landed on its belly. The patrol never asked for an investigation. Brought together by an “innocent” matchmaker (who also happens to be the her "Oh, Lady Be Good!" Certificate: Passed Most of the evidence from the wreckage indicated that the men had bailed out. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, ... See full summary ». written by Guy Bolton, Fred Thompson, and the Gershwin brothers and starring Fred and Adele Astaire.The song was also performed by the chorus in the film Lady Be Good (1941), although the film is unrelated to the musical. Investigations concluded that the first-time (all new) crew failed to realize they had overflown their air base in a sandstorm. As they were unaware that any Allied air crews were missing in the area, the human remains were recorded but then buried without further investigation. In August 1994, the remains of the craft were recovered by a team led by Dr. Fadel Ali Mohamed and taken to a Libyan military base in Tobruk for safekeeping. The same bearing would be returned whether the plane was heading inbound from the Mediterranean or outbound inland. good breeze from N.W. With the news that five bodies had been recovered, the US Air Force and US Army started an expanded search called Operation Climax in May 1960. Eleanor Powell (and Buttons) doing a dance routine to the music of "Lady Be Good" - from the 1941 film by the same name by the Carl Fenton Orchestra was made during the same month, Dec. 1924, that the show, Lady Be Good, starring Adele and Fred Astaire, opened on Broadway. Two B-24s attacked their secondary target on the return trip while the other two aircraft dumped their bombs into the Mediterranean to reduce weight and save fuel.[1]. 1st Lt. William J. Hatton, pilot — W… A thermos of tea was found to be drinkable. A flight of twelve B-24s would go first followed by a second wave of 13 planes, including the Lady Be Good. Dixie's friend Marilyn Marsh tries to convince them to marry again, but this isn't that easy. The aircraft was intact despite the crash landing and was in an excellent state of preservation. The aircraft's working radio could have been used to call for help.[2]:p.38. The Lady Be Good crew were also new as they had only arrived in Libya a week before on March 18. auburn and brunette and blonde: i love 'em all, tall or small but somehow they dont' grow fond; they stagger but never fall. Comedy, Certificate: Passed However, some planes that received these spares developed unexpected problems. [2]:p.28 As the plane's direction finder could not distinguish between a signal in front or behind the aircraft, there was no way to identify reciprocal readings. Sun fairly warm. In 1950, small-town Americans try to deal with military conscription. Lady Be Good is an Austin-based collaboration of jazz and swing musicians performing Western Swing classics in the spirit of Bob Wills, Cindy Walker, Asleep at the Wheel, and Willie Nelson, plus jazz standards and originals by pianist/composer/arranger Peggy Stern and Austin artists including Jim Stringer and The Sieker Band. They wrote the tune for a 1924 musical “Lady Be Good.” Incidentally, Fascinating Rhythm was another jazz standard that was written for the same musical by the Gershwin brothers. A showgirl stranded in a Wyoming town ends up being hired as a maid at a ranch. On April 4, 1943, a B-24D Liberator nicknamed Lady Be Good took off from Soluch, an airstrip located near Bengazi, Libya, for what would be her first and final mission. They then located each other by firing their revolvers and signal flares into the air. Movie & TV guides. Set in the 1950s, Lady Be Good is Amber Brock's mesmerizing return, sweeping readers into the world of the mischievous, status-obsessed daughter of a hotel magnate and the electric nightlife of three iconic cities: New York, Miami, and Havana. Another 13,872 planes were destroyed inside the continental U.S. while on training missions and almost 1,000 airplanes disappeared while en route to overseas destinations. The crew members who survived the descent had died while walking northward, because they believed they were fairly close to the Mediterranean coast. The official report in the American Graves Registration Service states: The navigator on the Lady Be Good thought he was flying on a direct path from Naples to Benghazi. When Lady Be Good reached the vicinity of Naples, it was after dark and the other B-24s had already carried out the raid and headed back for Libya. A most charming musical romance framed around courtroom divorce proceedings, Lady Be Good finds songwriting lovers constantly making up and breaking up amidst their many successes. As they walked, the group left behind footwear, parachute scraps, Mae West vests and other items as markers to show searchers their path. Welcome to Lady Be Good.net A repository for online information about WWIIs Ghost Bomber Home Page LBG Timeline ... 1/2 canteen of water, 1 cap full per day. A U.S. Army de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter with an armrest from the bomber crashed in the Gulf of Sidra. The abandoned Lady Be Good flew a further 26 km (16 mi) before it crash-landed into the Calanscio Sand Sea. On their first mission together, they would be flying one of the twenty-five B-24s assigned to bomb the harbor of Naples late in the afternoon of April 4 in a two-part attack. The wreckage of the Lady Be Good was taken to a Libyan Air Force base after being removed from the crash site in August 1994. Gordon's old class mate Irene, tries to get the leading role in this show, but Lillian insists in getting this part herself. 21 of the 25 Liberator made it back to Soluch, 2 landed in Malta and 2 were missing. Title: The young and inexperienced crew was on a mission that was plagued from the start. Nora wants to become a dancer on Broadway. [1] These two bodies were the only ones found during Operation Climax. His body was then recovered by the US Air Force. Lady Be Good (Lord Love A Lady Book 5) . (title sometimes presented with an exclamation point) is a musical written by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson with music by George and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The crew either dumped their bombs in the Mediterranean or hit a secondary target en route back to Libya. However, the wreck was accidentally discovered 710 km (440 mi) inland in the Libyan Desert by an oil exploration team from British Petroleum on November 9, 1958. It indicated that none of the men were aware they had been flying over land when they bailed out, or that they were 400 miles (640 km) inland. A US Army helicopter found the body of T/Sgt Harold J. Ripslinger on May 17, 1960, located 42 km (26 mi) northwest of Shelley's body, over 320 km (200 mi) from the crash site, but still 160 km (99 mi) from Soluch airbase. The sandstorm caused eight B-24s to return to Soluch, leaving four aircraft to continue the operation. [1][2]:p.25 The location of the wreckage was however marked on maps to be used by oil-prospecting teams that were due to set out to explore the Calanscio Sand Sea the next year. This was the first Broadway collaboration of the Gershwin brothers, and the Astaire siblings play a brother-sister dance te… The squadron was part of the 376th Bombardment Group (Heavy) based at Soluch Field in Soluch in Libya. [note 1]. Lady Be Good flew back alone from Italy on its return trip to its home base in Libya. They continued southward over North Africa, deeper into the Sahara Desert, for the next two hours. But when the Lady Be Good arrived over Naples at 7:50 pm at 7,600 m (24,900 ft), poor visibility was obscuring the primary target. Rested & walked. 2d Lieutenan… Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. Sailor Ted meets at the Lonely Hearts Club of his friend Gunny's wife, Jenny, a girl, Nora Paige, and falls in love. The U.S. lost 43,583 aircraft overseas of which 22,918 were lost in combat. A Royal Air Force team visited the site in 1968 and hauled away components including an engine (later donated to the US Air Force) for evaluation by the McDonnell Douglas company. Five bodies – those of Hatton, 2nd Lt. Robert F. Toner, Hays, T/S Robert E. LaMotte and S/Sgt Robert E. Adams – were found on February 11. A C-47 that received a radio receiver crashed into the Mediterranean. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to gives him the name of his partner. Lady Be Good Quotes. Even before takeoff, the weather was not ideal for flying conditions. On April 4, 1943, Lady Be Good of the 514th Bomb Squadron in Soluch Field, Libya. All but one of the crew's remains were recovered between February and August 1960. A diary, recovered from the pocket of co-pilot Robert Toner, recorded the crew's suffering on the walk northward. LADY BE GOOD is the second book in the Wynette, Texas series. Film Score Pioneer Max Steiner Is Ripe for Rediscovery, with the Help of a New Biography, Oscar Flashback: ‘Live and Let Die’ no match for ‘The Way We Were’ in Best Original Song, 11 Stars Who Just Need an Emmy to Egot, From Elton John to John Legend (Photos), lionel barrymore* 56/56 36_233-1_5=35_228 {1LRN_1LRW}, Stephan Eichenberg , History's Mysteries: Ghost Plane of the Desert: Lady Be Good. [7] They are now stored at Jamal Abdelnasser Air Force Base, Libya. oh, please have some pity i'm all alone in this big city. Drama. Steve Raleigh wants to produce a show on Broadway. Over the years pieces of the plane were stripped by souvenir hunters. Intact cockpit and nose with machine guns still in place. Songwriters Dixie Donegan and Eddie Crane are still in love after their divorce. However, both recovering these remains and making any meaningful identification is highly unlikely. However, the wreck was accidentally discovered 710 km (440 mi) inland in the Libyan Desert by an oil exploration team from British Petroleum on November 9, 1958. Lady, Be Good! A propeller can be seen in front of the village hall in Lake Linden, the home of Robert E. LaMotte. [2]:p.25, On February 27, 1959, British oil surveyor Gordon Bowerman and British geologists Donald Sheridan and John Martin[3] spotted the wreckage near 26°42′45.7″N 24°01′27″E / 26.712694°N 24.02417°E / 26.712694; 24.02417, 710 km (440 mi) southeast of Soluch, following up the first sighting from the air on May 16, 1958, by the crew of a Silver City Airways Dakota, piloted by Captain Allan Frost,[4] and another on June 15. "Oh, Lady be Good!" Only a few traces of the plane washed ashore and one of these was the armrest from the Lady Be Good. Use the HTML below. Its given name, Lady Be Good, was hand-painted on the starboard, front side of the forward fuselage. The U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum at Fort Lee, Virginia has a collection of personal items, such as watches, silk survival maps, and flight clothing from the crew members who were recovered. The Lady Be Good incident was indirectly referenced in a couple of television shows and movies: In 1953, a British patrol on a desert-crossing exercise found human remains in the same area where those of Shelley and Ripslinger were later found. The configuration of the parachute found with his body suggested that it did not fully open, and that Woravka died as a result of an overly rapid descent.[2]:p.38. The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman. A recovery team made initial trips from Wheelus Air Base to the crash site on May 26, 1959.[5]. Vernon L. Moore was a crew member of the B-24 Liberator bomber ‘Lady Be Good’. It was after noon on 4 April 1943 the B-24D bomber Lady Be Good departed Soluch airstrip on the coast of Libya, with her crew of nine on their first combat mission. There is a future book, THE LADY AND THE RAKE, due out in March 2020 where Lady Margaret Asherton's story is told! 275 likes. The joint operation used a USAF C-130 cargo plane and two Army Bell H-13 helicopters. A somewhat well known Libyan military officer, Suleiman Mahmoud was a commander in Gaddafi's army, where he served as commander of the Tobruk Military Region. Check out our gallery of the 2021 Oscar nominees in the leading and supporting acting categories, as the characters they so brilliantly played and in real life. Size 10.0 Source 78 User_cleaned Bai Konte Johnson User_metadataentered Innodata User 02 User_transferred Brendan Bucan The author fills out her characters far beyond the teaser blurb. DAYTON, Ohio -- One of the four propellers and an engine from the "Lady Be Good" are on display in the World War II Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. A ground crew eventually located the site, where a quick inspection of the remains identified it as a B-24D Liberator called the Lady Be Good, an Allied bomber that had … Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. In 2001, a member of the patrol recalled the incident and photographic forensic investigation of the remains concluded they had likely belonged to a male whose head may have been shaped like Moore's. Several of these items are on display. After the Lady Be Good was identified, some parts of the plane were returned to the United States for evaluation while the rest of the wreckage remained. Ella Fitzgerald first recorded the song in 1947. The nine crew members of the bomber that crashed in the Libyan Desert in … The Lady Be Good: Since her discovery deep in the Libyan desert in 1958/59, many thousands of people have been fascinated by the story of the ill-fated B-24D Liberator bomber named "Lady Be Good". A C-54, which had several autosyn transmitters from the Lady Be Good installed, had to throw cargo overboard to land safely because of propeller difficulties. Lady Be Good is the second installment in the Wynette, Texas series. The remains of one of the air gunners, S/Sgt Vernon L. Moore, have never been officially found. A composer and his songwriter wife clash as they succeed in working together, writing hit Broadway shows, but fail in their marriage to the point of getting divorced twice. [8], A stained-glass window in the chapel at Wheelus Air Base commemorates Lady Be Good and her crew.[1]. Lady Be Good is a USAAF B-24D Liberator that disappeared without a trace on its first combat mission during World War II. Lady Be Good in 2009, after being brought to Tobruck. [citation needed], Largely because it was believed that the aircraft had probably crashed at sea, a subsequent search and rescue mission from Soluch Air Base failed to find any trace of the aircraft or its crew. Songwriters Dixie Donegan and Eddie Crane are still in love after their divorce. In 1943, the Lady Be Good was a new Liberator bomber that had just been assigned to the 514th Bomb Squadron on March 25. Lady Be Good is a really nice standard tune by George and Ira Gershwin. (Original, Musical, Comedy, Broadway) opened in New York City Dec 1, 1924 and played through Sep 12, 1925. The propeller was transferred from the 40th Troop Carrier Squadron. The first reported sighting of the crash site was on November 9, 1958, by a British oil exploration team working for British Petroleum (BP) in the northeast of Libya's Kufra District. The plane took off on a mission on April 4, 1943, and was found in May, 1959, by an oil exploration team. 2d Lieutenant Dp Hays, Navigator 4. Suleiman Mahmoud photo. Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. Annabelle Anders. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? The members of the Lady Be Goodcrew were: 1. She meets Kenny Traveler, playboy, hothead and pro golfer. The team concluded that other bodies were likely buried beneath sand dunes after finding evidence that at least three of the surviving crew members had continued walking northward. A young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but when he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee, however his wife Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a... See full summary ». [1] The crew apparently overflew their base, failing to see the flares fired to attract their attention. is a 1924 song by George and Ira Gershwin.It was introduced by Walter Catlett in the Broadway musical Lady, Be Good! A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university. The main characters once again depict a Texas golfer and a British lady. Suleiman Mahmoud photo. At 2 a.m., as fuel became critically low, the crew parachuted to the ground. Their names: 1. The crew of Lady Be Good were on their first combat mission, having arrived in Libya on March 18, 1943. There are no approved quotes yet for this movie. [2]:pp.28–29, The crew might have survived if they had known their actual location. i tell you i'm just a lonesome babe in the wood, so lady be good... to me. In February 1960, the United States Army conducted a formal search of the area for the remains of the crew. During that fateful trip, Lady Be Good carried nine members of the 514th Squadron, 376th Bomb Group, 9thAir Force. Best Horror Movies. Although the plane was broken into two pieces, it was immaculately preserved, with functioning machine guns, a working radio, and some supplies of food and water. The diary also says the group survived for eight days in the desert, with only a single canteen of water to share. lady be good, oh lady be good to me. The plane, which had the AAF serial number 41-24301, had the group identification number 64 stencil-painted on its nose. Another British Petroleum oil exploration crew discovered the remains of 2nd Lt John S. Woravka in August 1960. It joined the formation and continued on to Naples. After Tony Martin had a hit recording in 1940, MGM bought the rights to the song for use in Lady Be Good (1941). Bob Gordon is staging a new Broadway Show. The plane, which was one of the last to depart, took off from Soluch Field near Benghazi at 2:15 pm. 78_lady-be-good_gbia0191798a Location USA Scanner Internet Archive Python library 1.9.0 Scanningcenter George Blood, L.P. The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results. However, it was a British Petroleum exploration crew that found the remains of S/Sgt Guy E. Shelley, on May 12, 1960, 38 km (24 mi) northwest of the recovered five bodies. The team contacted authorities at Wheelus Air Base, but no attempt to examine the aircraft was made as no records existed of any plane believed to have been lost in the area. The plane, which was from 376th Bomb Group, was believed to have been lost—with its nine-man crew—in the Mediterranean Sea while returning to its base in Libya following a bombing raid on Naples on April 4, 1943. Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, and Ray Brown all made Lady Be Good […] An altimeter and manifold pressure gauge were salvaged from the plane in 1963 by Airman Second Class Ron Pike and are on display at the March Field Air Museum near Riverside, CA. Sgt. This was a high altitude bombing run on the port at Naples, Italy. At 12:12 a.m. the pilot, Lt. William Hatton, radioed to say his automatic direction finder was not working and asked for a location of base. Stephan Eichenberg . National Museum of the United States Air Force, Diaries of Co-Pilot Robert F. Toner and Tech. The plane had the identification number 64 stencil-painted on its nose and its given name hand-painted on the starboard, front side of the forward fuselage; it was one of 25 B-24s assigned to bomb Naples late in the afternoon of April 4. Written by 2d Lieutenant Robert F. Toner, Copilot 3. Was this review helpful to you? The propellers on engines 1, 2, and 3 had been feathered and not under power when the plane crashed. It is the story of Lady Emma Wells-Finch who has come from England to Texas to do research and also to ruin her very proper reputation in order to avoid a marriage that she doesn't want. No human remains were found on board the aircraft nor in the surrounding crash site, nor were parachutes found. Kindle Edition. i am so awf'lly misunderstood, so lady be good, to me. [1] Hays had been on his first combat mission. The Lady Be Good is an example of one of these sad stories. Lady, Be Good! Anders, Annabelle. [8] It was composer Jerome Kern who implored the Academy to change its ruling so that only songs written expressly for films could be considered eligible for the award. The body of S/Sgt Shelley was found 32 km (20 mi) away while 43 km (27 mi) further on were the remains of T/Sgt Ripslinger. The survivors then died in the desert trying to walk to safety. However, his remains may have been recovered and buried by a desert patrol of the British Army in 1953. After the crew abandoned the aircraft, it continued flying southward. The unpredictable weather also lead to the inability for the crew to navigate it’s way back, getting lost in the sky. Subsequent examinations of the remains and personal items showed that eight of the nine airmen managed to parachute safely down to the desert from the aircraft. But the base's radio direction finder only had a single loop antenna. Top 200 of all time 150 Essential Comedies. Today, parts can be seen at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo) PHOTO DETAILS / DOWNLOAD HI-RES 12 of 16 [2]:p.31 It has been speculated that the dark and empty desert floor may have resembled open sea. (1941). You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. 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