Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Barthlemess, Rita Hayworth
directed by Howard Hawks
Bonnie Lee (Jean Arthur) gets off the ocean liner on which she is travelling in Barranca, somewhere in South America. She explores the town and winds up at an airport run by an American flying company owned by Geoff Carter (Cary Grant). She ends up sticking around for a week after she lets the ocean liner take off without her, in part because she has developed a fondness for Geoff.
Life at the airport gets more complicated after one pilot is killed when his plane crashes. His replacement, Bat MacPherson (Richard Barthlemess) and his wife Judy (Rita Hayworth), have ties to the crew of the airport. Judy dated Geoff before she got married. Bat bailed out of an airplane in a parachute once, leaving the other man in the airplane to die when the plane crashed. Kid (Thaomas Mitchell) is the brother of the man who died in that airplane crash.