barbara hershey played chuck yeager's wife in the right stuff.
barbara hershey played chuck yeager's wife in the right stuff.
who played chuck yeager's wife in the right stuff?
barbara hershey
some of the "women roles" that followed "the stunt man" included the horror movie "the entity" (1982); philip kaufman's "the right stuff" (1983), in which she played glennis yeager, wife of test pilot chuck yeager; and "the natural" (1984), in which she shot robert redford's character, inspired by a real-life incident where ruth ann steinhagen shot ballplayer eddie waitkus. for the role of harriet bird, hershey had chosen a particular hat as her "anchor". director barry levinson disagreed with her choice, but she insisted on wearing it. levinson later cast hershey as the wife of danny devito's character in the comedy "tin men" (1987).
barbara hershey
wolfe contrasts the seven with the edwards afb test pilots, among whom was chuck yeager, who was shut out of the astronaut program after nasa officials decided to use college-degreed pilots, not ones who gained their commissions as enlisted men, such as participants in the usaaf flying sergeants program in world war ii. chuck yeager spent time with tom wolfe explaining accident reports "that wolfe kept getting all wrong". publishing insiders say these sessions between wolfe and yeager led wolfe to highlight yeager's character, presence, thoughts, and anecdotes throughout the book. as an example, yeager prides his speech to the society of test pilots that the first rider in the mercury development program would be a monkey, not a real test pilot, and wolfe plays this drama out on the angst felt by the mercury astronauts over those remarks. yeager himself downplayed the theory of "the right stuff", attributing his survival of potential catastrophes to simply knowing his airplane thoroughly, along with some good luck.
the right stuff (book)