Word: rko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week RKO completed the first of these shorts. Let's Go to the Movies is a broad, awed survey of how U.S. movies are produced, distributed and exhibited. Coming: Film Actors (M-G-M), which will prove that, underneath, the boys & girls are really just hardworking, clean-living kids; The Art Director (20th Century-Fox), which will debunk such box-office attractions as earthquakes and moonlit water by disclosing trade tricks of process photography and set construction...
...Bishop's Wife (Goldwyn; RKO Radio...
...figures (as reported by Variety): Warner: $22,000,000; 20th Century-Fox: $14,000,000; MGM: $11,626,427; Columbia: $3,706,541; Universal-International: $3,230,017. Probable net for Paramount: $33,000,000; for RKO Radio...
...Blandings Builds His Dream House (Selznick; RKO Radio), like the original bestseller by FORTUNE Editor Eric Hodgins, is a sort of rich man's Egg and I: a comedy natural for all big city dwellers who have ever tried to get back to the land the easy way. It all starts off with the woes of Adman Jim Blandings (Gary Grant) & wife (Myrna Loy) as they suffer the beginning of an average day in their Manhattan apartment. Even for a $15,000 income-grouper, the Blandings apartment seems rather spacious (you could encamp a platoon of homeless veterans...
...Remember Mama (RKO Radio), an adaptation of John van Druten's stage hit, turns out much better than most such translations. A deeply domesticated "family" movie, Mama is a leisurely, kitchen-life chronicle of a tribe of Norse-American San Franciscans, in & around 1910. There is much less plot than incident, and the quality of the incidents increases in proportion to their deceptive simplicity...