Word: rko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week, on their way from London to Hollywood (he to play Quasimodo, she probably Esmeralda, in RKO's revival of The Hunchback of Notre Dame), were heavy-lidded, heavy-lipped Actor Charles Laughton and his 18-year-old protegee, picture-pretty, red-headed Dubliner Maureen O'Hara. While she grinned, postured, made egg-big eyes for cameramen, he admitted: "The truth is that I'm an incurable...
...glamor girl she has endured all the familiar permutations. When she was born in North Dakota, her name was Harriette Lake (of the submarine Lakes). When Columbia Pictures signed her, Harriette changed her name to Ann Sothern, dyed her brown hair to varying blonde shades, got nowhere in particular. RKO took her over, let her hair drift back to its natural shade, called her a "brownette," let her endorse Luckies, put her in fancy comedy (Smartest Girl in Town, Walking on Air, There Goes the Groom). This winter Cinemactress Sothern made up her pert mind to try something different...
Five Came Back (RKO Radio). In a U. S. airliner headed for Panama City, twelve set out. There are two pilots and a steward, an old professor and his wife on vacation, an effete young man eloping with a millionairess, a big-shot racketeer's little son in care of one of the mob, a tough girl on the lam from her past, an anarchist returning to his homeland gallows with a captor to whom he means a $5,000 reward...
...soldier of fortune who jumped a ship in Honolulu, worked his way to Hollywood in 1927, has been a cinemauthor and director there, as well as in France and Austria. As a low-budget director at Warner Bros, he fired no worlds, this year tried his luck at RKO...
...Last week RKO, still involved in a five-year-old reorganization, acquired a new board chairman, Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr., who has announced his resignation as Assistant Secretary of Commerce...