Amelia Earhart the aircraft came close. "I did not understand it at the time," she said, "but I believe that little red airplane said something to me as it swished by." By 1919 Earhart prepared to enter Smith College but changed her mind and enrolled at Columbia University, in a course in medical studies among other programs. She quit a year later to be with her parents, who had reunited in California. In Long Beach, on December 28, 1920, Earhart and her father visited an airfield where Frank Hawks (who later gained fame as an air racer) gave her a ride that
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight of a hands-on education area. Interest in the story of Amelia Earhart, especially with the release of "Amelia" in 2009, led film reviewers to recall the earlier Earhart portrayals. Rosalind Russell had played "an Earhart-esque flier in 1943's "Flight for Freedom"" and Susan Clark starred in the 1976 miniseries, "Amelia Earhart". Following closely the contemporary Earhart biographies that had appeared, "Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight" dramatized Earhart's final flight to the extent that more myth than fact comes through. Reviews of the performances in "Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight" were mixed, with some observers noting that the depictions were not