Word: rko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loan into a $3,400,000 fortune. After the Federal Trade Commission cracked down on him for "deceptive sales practices" and U.S. postal authorities warned him against conducting a lottery by mail, Punchboard King Stolkin headed for Hollywood. He took charge of a five-man syndicate that bought RKO from Howard Hughes and named himself president. But Stolkin's interesting past soon caught up with him; stockholders' complaints forced Stolkin & Co. to sell RKO back to How ard Hughes at a loss of $1,350,000 (TIME...
...Miss Rome, ran second in the Miss Italy competition. Two years after that, she married Dr. Skofic, got a showy role in a picture about beauty contests called Miss Italia, and an urgent invitation from Hollywood to come quick and take a screen test, all expenses paid. The sender: RKO Boss Howard Hughes, who had just seen a picture of Gina in a Bikini...
...Hughes agents, who shooed reporters away, bundled her into a limousine, hurried her off to "a hotel distant from the center of the city . . . I discovered I was practically locked in the hotel, unable to get in touch with anyone." All day she endured English lessons, '"orrible RKO peectures," rehearsals for her screen test, and the importuning of lawyers, who wanted her to sign a contract written in legal English...
...French Line (RKO Radio) is long on notoriety and short on entertainment. It begins with a tame striptease by Jane Russell (she ducks behind furniture as she takes it off) and closes with a bump-and-grind dance that shocked both the Breen office and the Legion of Decency, though it is more notable for poor taste than salaciousness. These two low points of the picture are connected by a limp story line that once again asks the burning question: How can a U.S. millionheiress be sure that she is loved for herself and not for her millions? Gilbert Roland...
FLOYD ODLUM'S ATLAS CORP. is buying heavily into RKO Pictures Corp., while other stockholders are selling their shares on Howard Hughes's offer of $6. Since RKO sold its moviemaking properties to Hughes, it now has only cash and a corporate name. Odium would like to get the corporate shell, perhaps offset its $20 million in losses against future earnings in new ventures. Atlas, which has more than 17% of the stock, would like to get Hughes's 32% interest...