In Search of Amelia Earhart notably Andy Roberts who shared vocals on the album, created an atypical British folk album conceived around the idea of the legends surrounding Amelia Earhart and her supposed demise. Matthews had read a book by Fred Goerner hypothesizing that Earhart and her flying companion Frederick Noonan had crashed around the Japanese held Marshall Island area and been taken prisoner by the Japanese on Saipan, in the Marianas, in 1937. Their plane had supposedly been outfitted with aerial cameras and had a bigger fuel tank than anyone outside of the US government knew. After being grilled by Japanese interrogators Earhart would
Tommy Noonan Sonny Tufts' last movie. Noonan was married two times. His last wife was actress Pocahontas Crowfoot, whose name had been Carole Langley. They were married 16 years. Eight months after he had an operation for a brain tumor, Noonan died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, just a few days shy of his 47th birthday. He was survived by his wife, Pokie Noonan, and their four children: Vince, Susan, Kathleen, and Timothy; by Tom Huntington, his son from his first marriage to Lucile Barnes; and by grandchildren Matthew and Claire. Tommy Noonan Tommy Noonan (April 29,