Word: rko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Name Only (RKO Radio) will puzzle cinemagoers who thought they knew just what high jinks to expect when Screwball Gary Grant falls in love with Screwball Carole Lombard. Far from high jinks is the sombre situation of rich young Alec Walker (Mr. Grant) when he falls in love with Julie Eden (Miss Lombard), a widowed commercial artist who has taken a summer cottage near his stately country seat. For, as rarely happens in screwball comedy but is very likely to happen in life, Alec has a tenacious wife with an undeveloped sense of humor, parents who also thought infidelity...
...holdout against Hollywood blandishments for two years has been pudding-faced, precocious Orson Welles, 24-year-old actor-manager of Manhattan's Mercury Theatre. Last week, when young Mr. Welles put his name to a one-picture-a-year contract with RKO, the terms for which he had been holding out were revealed. The terms: he will pick his own pictures, produce them under the Mercury banner (for RKO release), use Broadway instead of Hollywood players, serve as actor, co-author and director, and all without spending more than 18 weeks away from Broadway. First picture-Joseph Conrad...
...Career (RKO Radio) launches those of Alice Eden and John Archer, victors in a nationwide radio contest for new talent conducted by oldtime Producer Jesse Lasky on his Gateway to Hollywood radio hour. To the call for "young men not less than five feet nine inches tall with physical characteristics similar to those of Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, etc." and for similar feminine paragons, Gateway to Hollywood got 40,000 applicants, 8,000 of whom were auditioned in 23 U. S. cities. "John Archer" is Ralph Bowman of Lincoln, Neb., 24, in looks a genteel replica...
Bachelor Mother (RKO Radio), despite a title calculated to arouse the curiosity of censor boards, is as wholesome and comic a twitting as bastardy has ever received. Although Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) is not the mother of the seven-months-old baby she brings to a foundling home, no one will believe her, because the infant howls when taken from her arms. Her predicament is complicated when her ex-boss's scapegrace son (David Niven), solicitous for the baby's welfare, gives her back her old job and a raise. Polly and her pals proceed in persistent misunderstandings...
Bachelor Mother was adapted from an eight-year-old German musical which songwriting Producer B. G. ("Buddy") De Sylva found tucked away in his sock. It was directed by RKO's current wonder boy, hawk-faced, 26-year-old Director Garson Kanin (A Man To Remember, The Great Man Votes). The picture is fresh, bright, human, hilarious, but its production was a series of crises...