Word: rko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixty Glorious Years (Imperator-RKO Radio) should be an enlightening experience for U. S. cinemaddicts whose notions about 19th-Century history may have been slightly confused by recent Hollywood versions. Suez, for example, portrayed Ferdinand de Lesseps, who actually had two wives and ten children, as a lovesick young bachelor, and explained England's participation in his canal-building as the result of a General Election which never occurred. In Sixty Glorious Years, a dinner-table chat between Disraeli and Queen Victoria shows how the matter was actually handled. This reverence for the real is characteristic of a picture...
...Hays for the most impressive powwow of cinema bigwigs in a decade. Present were: Barney Balaban (Paramount), Nate J. Blumberg (Universal), Harry Cohn, Jack Cohn (Columbia), Samuel Goldwyn, Maurice Silverstone (United Artists), Nicholas M. Schenck (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Sidney R. Kent, Joseph M. Schenck (Twentieth Century-Fox), Leo Spitz (RKO Radio), Albert Warner, Harry M. Warner (Warner Bros.), Will H. Hays...
...Elected president of RKO to succeed retiring Lawyer Leo Spitz was bulky, greying, onetime film salesman, George Joseph Schaefer, now distribution head of United Artists. First Schaefer job at RKO: steering the bankrupt company through a reorganization plan which the U. S. District Court is expected to approve this week...
...Remember (RKO Radio). The idea that good pictures cost more than bad ones is so firmly rooted in the Hollywood subconscious that when a producer contrives to make a cheap picture which is also good, it occasions an almost panic confusion. Thus when, in A Man to Remember, Producer Robert Sisk and Director Garson Kanin turned out a film which, although budgeted for only $119,000 and made in 15 days, was unmistakably well above average A picture quality, RKO scarcely knew what to make of the situation. Finally the publicity department hit on a scheme. Instead of inviting critics...
...Miss Manton (RKO Radio). Screwball comedy and screwball murder mystery combined, more happily than usual, with Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene and Frances Mercer...