Ladies Courageous
| Ladies Courageous | |
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| Directed by | John Rawlins |
| Screenplay by | Doris Gilbert Norman Reilly Raine |
| Story by | Doris Gilbert Norman Reilly Raine |
| Based on | novel "Looking For Trouble" by Virginia Spencer Cowles |
| Produced by | Walter Wanger |
| Starring | Loretta Young Geraldine Fitzgerald |
| Cinematography | Hal Mohr |
| Edited by | Philip Cahn |
| Music by | Dimitri Tiomkin |
Production company | Walter Wanger Productions |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $834,260 |
| Box office | $1,072,763 |
Ladies Courageous (also called Fury in the Sky in a 1950 Realart re-release) 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.