Word: rko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seldom has Hollywood been so frightened about its future. In a panicky wave of economy, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had cut its payroll 40%-wiping out one entire echelon of executives. Columbia Pictures had fired 25% of its employees, and RKO's Gower Street studio had been dark for ten days. This week the entire industry was shooting only 25 pictures. Even though the first of the year is always a low point, this was not quite half as many pictures as were under way at the same time last year...
...RKO's Dore Schary had "postponed' two pictures, The Boy with the Green Hair (which preached racial tolerance) and White Tower (a plea for international harmony). There was doubt that Frank Capra, already well into making State of the Union (for M-G-M), would have started this satire on U.S. politics under present circumstances. One frightened Hollywoodenhead said that even last year's Academy Award winner The Best Years of Our Lives could not have been made now (one of the villains was a banker...
...Other box-office leaders, according to Variety: Body and Soul (United Artists); Unconquered (Paramount); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Goldwyn; RKO Radio...
...Past (RKO Radio) is a medium-grade thriller about a not-very-smart young man (Robert Mitchum) who is hired to hound down the runaway mistress (Jane Greer) of a hard guy (Kirk Douglas). Mitchum finds the girl, sets up housekeeping with her, and lets himself in for no end of melodramatic consequences. Fairly well played, and very well photographed (by Nicholas Musuraca), the action develops a routine kind of pseudo-tension...
Adapted from Robert Nathan's 1928 novel, The Bishop's Wife is Sam Goldwyn's and RKO's special Christmas cookie. It is a big, slick production. The only thing it lacks is taste. Some moviegoers may also be distressed by the lack of Christmas spirit in what is apparently the moral of the picture: you can't trust a soul with your wife...