Word: rko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About ten years ago someone on the RKO lot got a kittenish leopard as a gift. Leopards must have been big box office at the time because no one could wait until they had made a funny-type picture with this jovial cat and Katherine Hepburn. The result has recently been exhumed under the eyebrow-raising title of "Bringing Up Baby"--"Baby" being this sweet tempered kitty. It seemed a lot funnier at the age of twelve...
Rachel and the Stranger (RKO Radio) has been rushed into the theaters ahead of schedule because RKO hoped to cash in on Robert Mitchum's sudden notoriety. No one had a right to expect the movie would be much good, but it is. The first Mitchum film out since his arrest for smoking marijuana (TIME, Sept. 13), it turns out to be a pretty entertaining comedy-drama...
Race Street (RKO Radio) presents George Raft as a Los Angeles gambler, William Bendix as a detective friend, and Henry Morgan as a crippled friend. The cripple gets brutally killed by "protection" racketeers. Detective Bendix, true to his trade, wants to hunt down the killers in lawful and orderly fashion. Gambler Raft, like all shady characters, is faithful to a code which scorns help from a copper. They argue this difference of technique, in a friendly way, until Raft's enemies, seeing them together, conclude that Raft is playing stool pigeon. That puts him in real trouble. There...
Cinemactor Robert Mitchum was indicted by a Los Angeles grand jury on two counts (possession of marijuana and conspiracy to violate the narcotic laws). Meanwhile, his studio (RKO) hastened to make hay. Pleasantly amazed at the rash of public sympathy and sentimentality over Mitchum's trouble, the studio planned an immediate release of Bob's latest movie (Rachel and the Stranger, co-starring Loretta Young, and presenting Mitchum as a frontier home-wrecker...
...Happy Ending? Speaking for the whole industry, MGM's Dore Schary, formerly Mitchum's boss at RKO, pleaded with the public not to "indict the entire working personnel of 32,000 well-disciplined and clean-living American citizens." A widespread use of narcotics in the industry? "Shocking, capricious and untrue...