Word: rko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simon Bolivar, Nobel. Last 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...
...Flying Irishman (RKO Radio) is primarily an attempt to cash in at the box office the fame achieved by Aviator Douglas Corrigan in his famed "wrong way" flight to Ireland last July. Unlike most samples of its genre, it succeeds in being an unusually likable and honest little picture, for Corrigan is one of the worst actors who ever appeared on the screen. Indeed, cast as himself in a reasonably factual account of his own extraordinarily humdrum career, Corrigan does...
Love Affair (RKO Radio). Leo Mc-Carey, who directed this picture, is one of Los Angeles' few major contributions to the cinema industry's personnel. Son of a sports promoter named Thomas ("Uncle Tom") McCarey, he went to U. S. C., studied law, played on the rugby team. After college, Leo McCarey tried work in a San Francisco law office, quit to tour the Orpheum circuit as a boxer, did pick-&-shovel work in Montana mines, returned to Hollywood, where a chance meeting with Director Tod Browning got him into the cinema industry. That...
Fisherman's Wharf (RKO Radio). More yelps by Child Actor Bobby Breen...
...Slaves (RKO Radio), based on a case history, was made in Hollywood by P. J. Wolfson with a cast of comparatively unknown actors. Its purpose: to denounce juvenile peonage, as practised in a southern turpentine camp...