Word: rko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard Hughes, one of the targets of the old War Investigating Committee. "I hereby offer you a job as a motion picture actor," wrote Producer Hughes, new boss of RKO, "at a salary of $300 a week. This is twice the usual starting salary, but you are no amateur...
...West Coast radio stations and a precious Los Angeles TV permit. Paramount already owns two stations, is bidding against 20th Century-Fox for a San Francisco channel. Twentieth Century-Fox announced that it will now also produce films specially for television. Only two major studios (MGM, RKO Radio) still hang back. "The whole industry," said one film maker, "is either jumping or jumpy...
...Apaches as a tribe are yellow curs without any fighting ability," says Colonel Henry Fonda about five minutes after the RKO rooster quits yawping at the audience. The remainder of this courageous-last-stand-in-the-sage-brush saga sets out to disprove the good Colonel's thesis, a problem that involves numerous horsey charges, much sword waving, and about sixteen gallons of ketchup...
Melody Time (Disney; RKO Radio) is a crowded 75 minutes of song-illustrated animation involving: 1) skating lovers, tintype style, emulated by rabbits; 2) Rimsky-Korsakov's bumblebee, tormented by a boogie bass; 3) Johnny Appleseed, advised by a Guardian Angel in a coonskin cap; 4) Donald Duck, Joe Carioca and Organist Ethel Smith in the throes of a samba; 5) an apotheosis of Joyce Kilmer's Trees; 6) a young tugboat named Little Toot which disgraces and redeems itself; 7) a tall-tale, free-for-all finale about Pecos Bill, his horse Widow-maker...
Beyond that, Hughes plans to sign up the best of Hollywood's independents to make pictures at RKO. Eventually he intends to take an active hand in running things, build up his studio's faded list of stars. As the discoverer of the late Jean Harlow and Jane Russell, Hughes thinks he has the experience for that...