Produced in 1949, “Airline Glamour Girls” shows flight attendant training at the McConnell Hostess School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. McConnell gained considerable attention in 1947 when it was featured in a Life Magazine article that detailed how the school trained young women to serve as stewardesses and deal with (among other things) “drunks, diapers and double-chins.” Some of the daily exercises practiced in this era included walking up and down flights of stairs in high heels, and chewing gum on off-hours to reduce the chances of getting a double chin. Such was the environment that existed in this era, with only the prettiest selected for jobs with America’s airlines. The cost of attending the school in this era? $325 for an eight week course. The school apparently remained in business into the 1990s.

The film was directed by Andre Baruch and produced by Burton Benjamin.

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