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The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club: Directed by Amanda Pope. With Tom Skerritt, Kathy Bates, Buzz Aldrin, Florence 'Pancho' Barnes. A documentary profile of Pasadena society girl turned adventurer and aviator, Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes.
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- Documentary
- Amanda Pope
- 2009
In the 1940's and 50's, Pancho entertained the best test pilots in the world men with the right stuff at her ''Happy Bottom Riding Club'' guest ranch near Edwards Air Force Base. When Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the rocket-powered Bell X-1 in 1947, he and his team partied with Pancho.
Winner of an Emmy and numerous film festival awards, "The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club" profiles one of aviation's toughest and most notorious women,...
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- Nicholas Spark
Barnes' life was chronicled in a 2009 documentary film for PBS member station KOCE-TV, entitled The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club. A made-for-TV movie aired on the CBS television network, Pancho Barnes (1988), starring Valerie Bertinelli, featured a fictionalized version of Barnes' life and events relating to The ...
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club is a 2009 American documentary film that chronicles the life of aviation pioneer Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes.
Synopsis. A documentary profile of Pasadena society girl turned adventurer and aviator, Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes. In the 1920's and 30's, Barnes was Hollywood's top woman stunt pilot. In the 1940's and 50's, she owned and operated the (in)famous "Happy Bottom Riding Club" - a fly-in resort located near Edwards Air Force Base.
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The documentary film 'The Legend of Pancho Barnes' chronicles the thrilling life and extraordinary times of aviation pioneer Florence Lowe 'Pancho' Barnes, one of the most colorful and accomplished women pilots of the earliest 20th Century, and an ill-behaved woman who made history.
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