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discussed in biography

In Howard Hawks: Films of the mid-1930s of Howard Hawks
…served Hawks well again in Only Angels Have Wings (1939), an engaging adventure scripted by Jules Furthman about airmail pilots working at a remote station in South America. Grant and Jean Arthur, playing a stranded showgirl, provide the romance, while Rita Hayworth, in one of her first featured roles, injects…
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history of motion pictures

In history of film: The Hollywood studio system
…Scarface (1932), Twentieth Century (1934), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), and The Big Sleep (1946); British émigré Alfred Hitchcock, whose films appealed to the popular audience as suspense melodramas but were in fact abstract visual psychodramas of guilt and spiritual terror (Rebecca, 1940; Suspicion, 1941;
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role of Hayworth

In Rita Hayworth
…to seduce Cary Grant in Only Angels Have Wings (1939).
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