Word: rko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Room Service (RKO) is John Murray's and Allen Boretz's outrageously funny farce about the exigencies of show business on a shoe string, redesigned as a vehicle for Harpo, Groucho and Chico Marx. Groucho is Producer Gordon Miller, whose schemes for wheedling board & lodging out of a weak-spined hotel manager to whom he already owes a small fortune are hideously complicated by the arrival of an irascible hotel supervisor (Donald McBride), then of the bewildered young author whose play he hopes to produce. Harpo and Chico are Miller's equally impecunious assistants. The tumultuous efforts...
Breaking the Ice (RKO). Bobby Breen, this time down on Uncle William's farm, runs away to the city, gets a job singing in an ice-skating palace, finds there a playmate in accomplished, Sonia-Henious little Irene Dare...
Douglas Gorce Corrigan signed a contract with RKO Radio Pictures to play himself in his own life story. For the story he will get $25,000, for appearing...
Breaking the Ice (RKO Radio). Soprano yodelings by nebby Bobby Breen and fancy skating by five-year-old Irene Dare accompany a mildly funny comedy about Pennsylvania Mennonites...
Carefree (RKO Radio). London's Vauxhall Gardens in the 19th Century boasted a carver who could slice ham so thin that one of his hams, it was said, would pave the entire grounds. Waiters serving his translucent slices outdoors held them down with their fingertips to keep them from blowing away. Like all films in which Fred Astaire has figured prominently, Carefree is important for its melancholy songs and its brisk, high-spirited dancing. The farce between the dances, however, is sliced paper-thin...