Word: rko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having their stories mussed up by somebody else. They are now bosses of their own producing company, The Play's The Thing Productions. Unlike a similar producing venture attempted by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur five years ago, T. P. T. P. will release four pictures through RKO* next year. The four, picked by Towne for their story value: The Swiss Family Robinson (published in 1813), James Fenimore Cooper's The Deer slayer (1841), Tom Brown's School Days (1857) and Alfred Batson's contemporary African Intrigue, dealing with the Agadir incident of 1911. Producer Towne...
Alexander Graham Bell lived in what was essentially a materialistic age, a fact that may have prompted RKO not to make fame an end in itself in the screen biography that bears his name, now showing at the Keith Memorial. Anyway, Don Ameche is called on not only to portray how the inventor of the telephone obtained recognition but also to show how he gained riches. In the first assignment, all is reasonably smooth sailing. Aided by Loretta Young, Don Ameche gives a fairly convincing life portrait of Bell in his rise from a cold attic to the court...
...York City. Come, gentlemen, a little reciprocal trade between Harvard, what? Fuller knows his stuff about records, and from what I can hear about the trips he has been making he has a lot of good rare stock on hand . . . Helen O'Connell, Jimmy Dorsey's singer, goes to RKO in Hollywood at the end of the year...
...Flying Down to Rio, movie producers were still apprehensive that audiences would not be enthusiastic about full-length dances on the screen. Rogers and Astaire light-footedly kicked that apprehension into a cocked hat, and in the process (eight pictures) have grossed a total of $18,000.000 for RKO. Irene Castle had her thousands of admirers, Ginger Rogers has her millions...
Immediately after the ceremony, Mr. & Mrs. Gable started back to Hollywood. They told reporters they would not take a honeymoon until Gable was through making Gone With the Wind, and Lombard her next picture, Memory of Love, for RKO. They expected, within two weeks, to move into Gable's ranch house in San Fernando Valley. They did not expect to call it "the House of the Seven Gables." Asked whether she would retire and have children, Carole Lombard blushed...