01 Jan 1932
Freaks
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Skyward
A touching drama of a handicapped teenager and her quest for the freedom of the skies.
Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she wants to learn how to fly. Dupree teaches her to fly with some special controls compensating for her handicap. Koup Trenton runs an aircraft repair service and is trying desperately to get an old airplane back in the air. The three, together, put the young girl and the old plane up in the air.
Top Billed Cast
Bette Davis Billie Dupree
Howard Hesseman Koup Trenton
Suzy Barbieri Julie Ward
Marion Ross Natalie Ward
Clu Gulager Steve Ward
Ben Marley Scott Billings
Lisa Whelchel Lisa Ward
Irma P. Hall Mrs. Sinclair
Mark Wheeler Mr. Olsen
Jessie Lee Fulton Secretary
Bill Thurman Pilot #1
Rance Howard Pilot #2
Rhonda Minton Stephanie
Gene Pietragallo Jason
Greta Blackburn Miss Russell
Jeff Nicholson Theatre Usher
Kate Finlayson Nurse
Rusty McCaskey Boy in Class
Bill Blackwood Self
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