Word: rko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Underwater! (RKO Radio). Fill a bathing suit with Jane Russell, toss into water and mix well into a $3,000,000 movie. Season the movie with submarine photography, a few sharks, two treasurehunting skin-divers and one sunken Spanish galleon. The result is likely to be a lot of bullion. By the time Skin-Divers Richard Egan and Gilbert Roland surface with the gold ingots, Jane has displayed her more notable talents in high-cut shorts, low-cut dresses, pajamas, a nightgown, one-piece and two-piece swim suits. Her clothes designer can hardly be held responsible for the shape...
...thriller-diller, but I've lost my notes and I can't remember much else about it. Then Debbie walked over near us with a bunch of Puddies in tow, and I noticed her nicely tailored grey flannel dress, which fit like a soaking-wet nightgown. The lady from RKO lent me her hanky so I could wipe my chin and introduced me. Ripping out my pen, I made the accompanying sketch as she turned to another interlocuter and then asked her if I could have a few minutes alone with her. She said okay and then scampered...
...Hollywood, Howard Hughes's limping RKO studios announced that all production would stop for "the present." The studio cut its already skeletonized staff, planned to rent its studio space to independent moviemakers and release their pictures. Cinemaoimator Walt Disney has already ended his 17-year tie-in with RKO, from now on will distribute his films through his own outlet, Buena Vista Film Distribution...
...Sunday showings of Miss Julie.
The film, a gloomy Swedish import dealing with sexual abnormality,
approved for weekday exhibition, was turned down by Massachusetts
Commissioner of Public Safety Otis M. Whitney and Mayor John Foley as
"inconsistent with [the Sabbath's] due observance.'' In neighboring
Boston. RKO Pictures Corp. distributors fought a similar blue law ban
on Sunday showings of The French Line.
...time Hecht replied to critics who say that he is biting the hands that fed him. Said he: "I got $12,000 from M-G-M for writing Viva Villa, and all the studio made on the picture was $2,000,000 net. I was paid $19,000 by RKO for writing Scarf ace, which made between $2,000,000 and $4,000,000 net for the studio. Sam Goldwyn paid me $50,000 for Wuthering Heights, and all Sam made was a million. David Selznick, the finest boss I had in Hollywood, paid me $75,000for Spellbound...