Wings
1927 film · Released 1927
Wings is a 1927 American war film which won the first Academy Award for Best Picture. While the sound version of the film has no audible dialogue, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects. The original soundtrack to the sound version is preserved at UCLA. The film stars Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, and Richard Arlen. Rogers and Arlen portray World War I combat pilots in a romantic rivalry over a woman.
Cast ages at release (1927)
- Gary Cooper, as Cadet White: 25–26
- Clara Bow, as Mary Preston: 21–22
- Richard Arlen, as Flight Cadet / Second Lieutenant David Armstrong: 27–28
- Charles Rogers, as Flight Cadet / Second Lieutenant Jack Powell: 22–23
- Richard Tucker, as Air Commander: 42–43
- Henry B. Walthall, as Mr. Armstrong: 48–49
- Julia Swayne Gordon, as Mrs: 48–49
- Charles Barton: 24–25
- Thomas Carrigan: 40–41
- Hedda Hopper: 41–42
- Arlette Marchal, as Celeste: 24–25
- George Irving: 52–53
- Jobyna Ralston, as Sylvia Lewis: 27–28
- Roscoe Karns, as Lieutenant Cameron: 35–36
- William A. Wellman: 30–31
- El Brendel, as Herman Schwimpf: 36–37
- Gunboat Smith, as Sergeant: 39–40