Word: rko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RKO paid Songwriter Berlin $75,000 plus a share of the receipts...
Follow the Fleet (RKO) was designed to take lean, prissy-looking Fred Astaire out of the gilded surroundings in which he has crooned and capered hitherto and put him before his enraptured public as a man among men. He wears a sailor suit with as much flare as he ever brought to a top hat & tails. He sings in his reedy voice three new Irving Berlin songs and he dances four times: 1) an eccentric fox-trot with knee-flips in a dancehall, where he and Ginger Rogers win the contest; 2) a parody deck drill on a battleship with...
...lyrics of all seven tunes used in Follow the Fleet. The more serious numbers, Here Am I, But Where Are You, Get Thee Behind Me, Satan, have a nostalgic catch that is characteristically Berlinish. They are sung by Harriet Hilliard whose general proficiency got her a starring contract when RKO officials saw Follow the Fleet previewed...
...securities of $23,679,000 Last October, Mr. Sarnoff sold half of Radio Corp.'s interest in Radio-Keith-Orpheum to Atlas Corp. and Lehman Bros, for some $5,000,000. These investment houses also took an option on the rest of RCA's holding in RKO for another $5,000,000, payable before the end of 1937. Last November Mr. Sarnoff sold RCA's interest in Electric & Musical Industries, Ltd. (British Radio) for $10,200,000 cash. So Radio Corp. approached the plan well-heeled...
Sylvia Scarlett (RKO) reveals the interesting fact that Katharine Hepburn is better looking as a boy than as a woman. Just why, in the plot, she has to become a boy is never clear; it is something about getting over to England with her father, Henry Scarlett (Edmund Gwenn). who wants to start life anew as a lace-smuggler. But once Miss Hepburn has her trousers on, and she and her inept, ingenuous miscreant of a parent have met Gary Grant, a cockney adventurer with smuggled diamonds in his bootheels. Sylvia Scarlett becomes good entertainment...