George P. Putnam

...off the ground. Richard Gere plays her manager-husband George Putnam, eagerly exploiting her celebrity with lines in clothes and luggage, while airline executive Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor) is the cuckoo in the marital nest. The look of the...

In this article: Amelia Earheart, Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Hejira, George Putnam, Amelia, Ron Bass, Ewan McGregor, and Joni Mitchell

...of Bend. Actually, only two degrees separate her from Central Oregon, where her husband, George Palmer Putnam was editor and publisher of The Bend Bulletin and mayor of Bend before leaving and eventually marrying Earhart. For more we...

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...more than in-flight baggage. Still, she becomes a superstar thanks to George turning the flight into a bestselling book, then marketing Earhart as a spokeswoman for everything from luggage to ciggies. She puts up with it because she...

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...fly the Atlantic. Like an ingenue, Earhart got her break when Putnam, who knew the value of novelty when it came to selling books or cigarettes, essentially cast her as the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane. In 1928 she took a...

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...leaving judgment up to us. Earhart goes along with the charade because she loves Putnam and she loves being famous (it is, after all, the American way), but sooner or later her independent streak re-surfaces. In 1932, Earhart flew the...

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...flights and complicated loves. Richard Gere provides formidable support as George Putnam, the publishing giant who wed Earhart after building her into a national treasure despite her narrow-minded stubbornness. Theirs is a sensible romance,...

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...story inspirational or not (after all we sort of know the ending), her relationship with the two men she loved--her publisher and backer George Putnam (Richard Gere) and Federal aviation leader Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor)--makes for a...

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