Fresh off the 1st Academy Award winning success of Wings, SOB studios decided to try their hand at an aviation pic as well. That Broad Can't Fly was one of 1928's most lukewarm received films. Susan played ace World War I pilot Bugsy Babsheet, an Iowa farm girl forced to dress like a man to join the elite flying corps in WWI France. The life expectancy of these soldiers was about 18 days, so after saving a few misogynistic pilots by shooting down enemy fighters (most of which were later determined to be British--its a complete screwball comedy, folks, with fun war hijinks!), Bugsy was finally killed herself. Upon retrieving her body, the men of the flying corps came to realize that she was, in fact, a woman (although a few of the rural kids were slow to come around). She was buried with half military honors in an open pit where they dumped her body but in a dress. They subsequently renamed their corps Mama's Fliers, and the film ends with Sgt. Russel Weaver eloquently and wistfully staring to camera and saying, "That Bugsy could have had my baby any day." It was an incredibly minor step back for women everywhere. Susan was once again blackballed, and later, when called before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, she told everyone she had Ronald Reagan's baby, a complete fabrication as she had no children to speak of. McCarthy extra blacklisted her, and put her on double secret probation.
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