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...week the first spring shoot of this bumper crop appeared on U. S. screens. The biggest job to date of Hollywood's sole socialite director, Henry Codman ("Hank") Potter, it is a $1,500,000 close-up of Irene and Vernon Castle, produced by RKO Radio's Pandro Berman with 1) the advice of one of its biographees, 2) the eminently suitable talent of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire...
Barrie wrote Quality Street in 1900. Some of the tired gaiety still clinging to its voluminous and lacy folds might have been revitalized if Producer Pandro Berman and his aids had overcome their reverence for Sir James Barrie...
...California where almost every foot of available landscape is already familiar to cinemaddicts. Second most interesting fact is that all this apparently expensive panoramic authenticity cost RKO practically nothing. Michael Strogoff was originally made in both French and German by Producer Joseph Ermolieff. RKO's smart Producer Pandro Saul Berman (Winterset, Swing Time} bought the U. S. rights to the picture for $75,000, but instead of showing it with subtitles or dubbed-in sound, he proceeded to remake it in Hollywood. Directed by George Nicholls Jr., and supervised by Ermolieff, the parts made in Hollywood...
Winterset (RKO) is Maxwell Anderson's play, transferred to the screen by Producer Pandro S. Herman with such honesty, intelligence and skill that it betters its original. By abbreviating some of Author Anderson's less appropriate flights of poetry, Anthony Veiller, who wrote the screen play, improved the dialog. RKO's art director, Van Nest Polglase, taking his key from the stage sets designed...
...Radio-Keith-Orpheum, still considered Hollywood's most mismanaged studio, was last week once more in the throes of reorganization. Pandro Berman resigned as production chief to head a small unit of his own. Of the 35 pictures which RKO released in the last half of 1933. only four (Little Women, Flying Down to Rio, Wild Cargo, Morning Glory) were money-making hits. In charge of RKO's 50 forthcoming pictures will be president Benjamin Bertram ("Bright Boy") Kahane. Most important on the production schedule for 1934-35: three Katharine Hepburn pictures (Joan of Arc, the Forsyte Saga, The Little...