Word: rko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a German concern in 1928) was brought to trial in Brooklyn. Under the name American Tri-Ergon Corp. (90% owned by Mr. Fox) he is seeking a permanent injunction against Paramount Publix Corp., together with an accounting of the profits Paramount has earned. Other suits are pending against RKO Radio Pictures R. C. A. Photophone, a subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph's Western Electric. Both Wall Street and Hollywood regard the suits as Mr. Fox's bid for a comeback in the film field. From the $100,000,000 or more that the industry has taken...
...Half Naked Truth (RKO...
...puts a lion in the cooch dancer's hotel room. Ballyhooed into being a musical comedy star, she goes back to cooch dancing when the spieler publicizes another carnival wench in connection with a nudist colony. Possibly because preview audiences were so enthusiastic about The Half Naked Truth, RKO last fortnight ceased bickering with Cinemactor Tracy about his salary, which was withheld when he frequently failed to appear on the set. Terms of the agreement: $1,750, half of the salary due Cinemactor Tracy to be paid immediately, half when he has made his next picture for RKO...
...Conquerors (RKO) is a somewhat editorial epic urging cinemaddicts not to sell the U. S. short. It starts in the post-Civil War Depression, shows Richard Dix and Ann Harding, newly married and in financial straits, setting out for the West. Richard Dix is shot by the Slade Boys. He stops to recover in a Midwest village, settles down there to start a bank and a family. His small son is run over by the first train that goes through the town. His daughter grows up to look a great deal like Ann Harding, marries a teller in the bank...
During the filming of this picture, which she selected for herself, Constance Bennett lost ten pounds. This was not the only mishap in connection with Rockabye. A version of it made last summer with Phillips Holmes in Joel McCrea's role was so unsuccessful that RKO did the whole thing over again, with Jane Murfin & Kubec Glasmon to rewrite Horace Jackson's script and George Cukor directing instead of George Fitzmaurice. It emerges finally as a first-grade program picture, lachrymose but reasonable, brightened by Jobyna Howland's expert characterization of Judy's tippling mother. Instructive...