Word: rko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From This Day Forward (RKO Radio) is a tardy but sincere filming of Thomas Bell's All Brides Are Beautiful, a novel (1936) about Depression in The Bronx. Its theme: the effort of decent, poor newlyweds to live as well as they can. Its thesis: love and fortitude can handle anything that economic injustice throws their way. The story is told mainly in flashbacks as Bill Cummings (Mark Stevens) goes through his old, familiar, woeful process of looking...
Variety's high box-office scores (for March): 1) Adventure (M-G-M), 2) Road to Utopia (Paramount), 3) The Bells of St. Mary's (RKO Radio), 4) The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (Columbia...
...RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; Loew's Inc.; 20th Century-Fox Film Corp.; Paramount Pictures, Inc.; Balaban & Katz Corp.; Vitagraph, Inc.; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; Warner Bros. Circuit Management Corp.; Warner Bros. Theatres...
Tomorrow Is Forever (International-RKO Radio) is a specious, stylishly dressed domestic drama starring Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles-as well as cinema's old friends Rip van Winkle and Enoch Arden. Derived from a lending library novel of the same title, the film concerns a young lady (Claudette) who believes that her husband (Welles) was killed in World War I. After a longish period of mourning, she reluctantly remarries. But husband No. 1, by no means dead, continues to live on in Europe. On the eve of World War II, he returns to the U.S. with a foster...
...which his father was executed; on meeting the sentencing judge he completely besis him in what is almost a re-trial, but his discovery of the killer results in his own destruction. Often considered one of Anderson's finest works, "Winterset" was produced as a movie in 1936 by RKO...